VB Forum / General / April 2005

I want to trap an Enter key when a dropdown combo has focus.  I Googled up
some code, but the Enter key does not trigger the KeyPress event.
Private Sub cboList_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)
   Dim I As Long

I opened a database but on the same file as a database I got wierd file with
the same name as my database the the type of file is called a Microsoft
Access Record-Locking...  .  I thought I closed my database the right way
with code the only way I can even access the database is ...

I have just started to learn VB6 and currently use a few books and
websites as resources.
What I would like to know is whether there is a good, well organised,
and documented API out there for VB6. Maybe I have missed this on

I'm in the process of moving code from a huge collection of VBA's into a
single VB DLL. In the process I'm cleaning up the code and making much more
organized. In my "Math" class module we have this simple function (astounding
that it's not built in)...

What's the registry key that tells VB6 to startup code windows maximized?

I am about to plan and make a "search" method that will hopefully
locate records from a table based upon a "LIKE" qualifier.
My method should  list the record/records in a ComboBox, and a user
will pick one record from that list.

Access's combo-boxes are much nicer than those in stock VB. They have
different closed and open sizes, and can display multiple columns in the open
state.
Can anyone recommend a similar control addin/dll/etc. for VB?

Hi all
I'm new to .Net
I'm wondering capture arguments thru a console App and then populate
txtboxes in a win form from my sub main within in my console project.

I just had to reinstall Windows XP and most everything else and finally got
back to square one.  Now when I run VB 6, there is no add-in for SourceSafe.
How can I fix this?
TIA!

I am getting the following message when I run a VB6 application:
  Run-time error ‘52’: Bad file name or number
This is only happening on one particular workstation and it works fine on
others. Can anyone help?

I am trying to develop an easy-to use program that will allow me to store
information like IP Address, DNS, subnet mask etc... in a profile and then
use it and change the TCP/IP settings of the computer based on the profile
selected.

As no individuals have responded to my additional and most recent message on
"Converting Visual Basic 5.0 Code to That for Version 4.0," I shall work on
the assumption that the thread was no longer being checked and, therefore,
repeat the message, which simply read, "Now, how can ...

I'm developing a small app to standardize settings on all our machines. One
of the things I'd like to do is to set the virtual memory of all our XP
Professional machines to "System Determined" using a VB script/app
Despite searching through various chat rooms and googling, I can't ...

I am supporting a VB6 application that works at 100s of customer sites, but
at one site (on two computers!) Microsoft.XMLDOM (that is the old version
independent XML MSXML2 & 3 one that can be mixed up due to "replace mode"

I used ADODB property to connect the sql database and query information.
I encounter a runtime error "connection time expired". I already set the
connectiontimeout more than 30 seconds and the error still occur. In
addition, i also set the connectiontimeout to 0. The runtime error ...