VB Forum / General / March 2005

I have been building a application that relies heavly on dates and i have
been trying to come up with a way of unifying dates into a single fashion.
However things are slowly going from bad to worst! To format my dates in a
set way i have decided to use the format option. The ...

I posted '.ini file beginner' on Mar 2.  The problem was solved, and the code
works well.  Then, I used the same code to add more contents to the same .ini
file, but it doesn't work.  Below is the code that works:
Public Function browseINI() As String

I am using a vertical scroll bar control for the first time in my project,
and I have noticed that after using it, the focus stays and the little
cursor sits there blinking stupidly. Is there any way to get the focus off
of it so it won't blink?

I would like to write an application(vb6, vb.net or c#) that
tracks when my broadband connection is down.
I would like it to run quietly similar to Norton or
such and produce a weekly report.

Help!
I've written a basic DVD player using VB6 and the WindowsXP video control,
following an example I found on MSDN. It works fine on my computer both
compiled and in the IDE, but on all the other computers I've tried

I have a control array of Frames that goes with a TabStrip (I know I could
probably convert all this to the Tab Control, but I'm thinking it might take
more time than it's worth) and under certain conditions, I want to
hide/delete certain tabs from displaying.  So I would have to ...

Hi Folks --
For those who are unaware, "mainstream support" for VB6 ends on March 31.  For a
great number of MVPs, and millions of Microsoft customers, this is simply
unacceptable.  We are asking Microsoft to extend support for VB6, by bringing it into

I have a VB6.0 app that I intend to launch from the command line, and then
wait until it finishes. However I have noticed that when I try this, the
command line returns immediately, even though the program has not yet
completed.

ive created a new word template i want to use instead of normal.dot. i want
users to be able to click on a button on the form and for it to open a .doc
file using that .dot template??
i know how to open a .doc and a .dot file but i cannot open a .doc file with

I'm reading the article at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcon98/html/vb
conlifecycleofvisualbasicforms.asp
but I'm not Quite understanding how this maps to what we're doing.
Many of our forms have a ShowForm method that takes a parameter that

I am sure this is something that is fairly easy to get around?, but i have a
timer in my application ( which counts up ) but when the program is going
some SQL`s and a few other small timely peices of work the clock stops
whilst it is going on.

I'm a newbie to VB6, but I've done extensive programming in VBA in both
Access and Excel. My VB project is porting working code from inside an Access
project into a standalone app. To be more specific, the application is a
calculator that runs on a Bloomberg terminal. It logs in, ...

I would like to know if there is some kind of API or vb code to see if the
XP/W2003 is currently being set.
We have an application that can run on the several OS (W2k -W2003-XP), but
detecting if XP or W2003 is not enough ...I need to make sure that is also

After googling the web and groups, I can't seem to find an answer to my
question.
Some of my clients are still using dot matrix printers for checkwriting.
The dot matrix has the advantage of being able to handle multi-part forms.

List:
I'm using the print dialog box found here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322710
It's been "Just Working" for me both in the IDE and as executable for a