VB Forum / General / April 2005

I would like to know if it's possible to convert a julian date format to
YYYYMMDD format in VB?
The date is 1959344
Cheers!

How can i disconnect and reconnect a hard drive using visual basic or
vb.net?  I want to use this drive for backups and disable it while im not
backing up.  The idea is that this will redeuce chances of a virus, system
coruption, ware and tear, etc.  my other option is to get an ...

How do you exit the loop and go to the next statement?
do while true
 if false
   ???? - to skip the loop and go to XXXXX

I've gone through and listed all components and references in my project,
made sure they were all included in my cab, but for some reason my controls
interface does not appear after installing on a non-development machine. It
prompts me if I want to run it, downloads and then ...

I have an activeX control I would like to use in a VB project.
It is a stand alone file, and I wonder if I need to "register" the
control before using properly.
I'm told it is a good working control, but it doesn't work like

I have a variable of type variant which gets an array of
strings.  I need to test whether the array was assigned to
the variable. I have tried a few things but none seems to
work properly.  Can someone suggest or tell me what would

here at work, we go through a proxy.  most apps automatically read the
settings from the appropriate regkey (HKEY_CURRENT_USER....), and get
through the proxy just fine.  when a new user logs on to a computer for the
first time and opens an app that needs to make an internet ...

Can you run UserDocument1.vbd from within another vb
code. I have a driver program XXX.exe and I want to
invoke UserDocument1.vbd from XXX.exe. If it is possible,
what command do I use?

Can someone point me to a source for customizable command buttons?
I'm getting pretty bored with the standard supplied with VB-6...
Its rectangular,period! and there doesn't seem to be much there to
allow for customizing.

Hi,  
Searching on a way to print from vb6 using dao database towards word
preformatted documents with fields ie. <<address>>, <<name>>, etc..
Searched a lot but didn't find anything usefull.

I'm working with VB6.
I need to get the value of the HPal property.
I'm using :
dim lHPal as long

Is it possible to create a classless DLL with VB, with just a
module of public routines and type declarations?
--
Jim Carlock

I use following code to change default printer. I find ok to change it. (I
observe the "default" whether is set in OS manually) However, I share one
printer with 2 different name with different printing properties. Then I
print 2 separate documents to these 2 printers ...

Hey all,
I was playing around with some of the numerous display properties of an
MSChart control. I came across this example from the MSDN:
trying to

The organization I work for is currently using a VB 5
application on a Windows 2000 Pro machine.
My employers are planning on moving to WINXP.
The application is a data driven app that connects to SQL