VB Forum / General / March 2005

I've got an old program that produces a customised diary print from Outlook.
At the top of the page, I print the users name which I obtain via:
   Outlook.Application.GetNamespace("MAPI").CurrentUser.Name
Problem is that this pops up Outlooks security window, telling the user that ...

I want to do mail merge.
I need to clarify what is the difference between
Visual Studio tools for office 2003 and Primary Interop assemblies for 2003.
"My theory is the latter is for developing solutions using visual studio

'Office XP and .NET Style ActiveX Menu Control'
(http://www.xpstyle-menu.com/)
Office XP and .NET Style ActiveX Menu Control is the easy to use
ActiveX control for VB that gives your application Office XP style

    I would like to import a text file into SQL Server programmatically
using VB 6.0.  Can you give me a code snippet that will do this?
Thanks,
Rachel

where site i can download MSDN ?? ....

I've created a news feeder application for my business, the news bar sizes
itself to the screen width and positions itself at the top of the screen.
The trouble with this is it can be hidden by other windows that have focus,
hence I want it to be permanently displayed but not ...

In Excel Object (Dim excelObjApp As EXCEL.Application),
how can I set an active cell in Excel ? Thanks.

Can someone tell which would be the best way to create a
checklist?  I have a large list of string items, which I
need to check against to find if the string returned (no
user input) is in that list.  I have tried it with the

Dim myComm As MSComm
Set myComm = New MSComm
Why, oh why does this give run time error 429, activex component can't create object on one XP machine and not the other.
yes, the mscomm32.ocx is where it should be

I have about 1000 small visual basic projects (VB6). Is there a script I can
add to a batch file to build all projects one after another from a single
click ?
My directory structure is like this:

What is the function of REDIM and how can i use it ??
         follow up question...
My prof say this to us if your good in math it means your good also in
programming is it true?? .. How ?? I know this is a silly question but

In regards to sorting arrays other than integer (3/5/2005), you can sort
ANYTHING with a Heap Sort.  I found the algorithm in the book:  “The Art of
Computer Programming”, by Don Knuth, and adapted it to FORTRAN in 1983.  It
has served me so well for so many years I have adapted ...

my boss asked me to find some question we could ask applicants so we can
test their knowledge of vb.net and asp.net.
Do you know of any sites where i might find such questions? Or do you know
of good questions ?

I would like to get the full path to the DLL file for my VB Active-X DLL
class. Is it possible to maintain a property in VB which can be queried with
a COM call? Or is there any other way - e.g. with a Windows API call?
Aaron

I am using VB6 package and deployment wizard for my program setup needs.
I have an application that requires to register a 3rd party OCX.
I need to execute a command like REGSVR32.EXE MyServer.ocx in the setup
process but am a little lost as to where I place this command in the