VB Forum / General / April 2005

i have been trying to add a step in my program that checks for an internet
connection before attempting to download the scheduled data.  99% of the
time, the connection is there, but on those rare occasions it's not, i'd
like for the download to be skipped. i have tried

"Mainstream Support for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 ended on March 31, 2005.
Microsoft is releasing this package that is unrelated to security because it contains
improvements that were ready for release just before the end of Mainstream Support.
Visual Basic 6.0 has transitioned to ...

I have a problem using IWshShortcut which just seems to affect Windows
2000??
Im creating shortcuts on the desktop as follows:
Dim oShell As New IWshRuntimeLibrary.IWshShell_Class

It sounds crazy but I can't find the way how to close the form after some
process finished on it.
Only can hide.
I need to know how can I close the from from itself,

Anybody knows?
Paulo

Hi, this is sorta related to a thread I created earlier about using the
Access.Application object to relink tables.  Jeff suggested I use the
DAO.Database object instead.  I googled some example code that I
modified a little and testing it right now.  It works fine and creates

I know this isn't directly VB related but since it appears that Visual Basic
is responsible I am hoping that someone has had similar problems.
We often have problems when another developer modifies a component (ocx or
dll) and then that item is checked out of Source Safe onto ...

I used ActiveReports by Data Dynamics to generate reports. It does a great
job but when I export it to html, it does not export the borders that I
place around some of the fields. Do you know if there are any reporting tool
like this one but can export it to html 100% WYSIWYG. I ...

im running VB6 (SP6).  I need to create a msg box which contains three
response buttons,  "proceed", "cancel" and "reprint"  
Can anyone show mw how to do this please
Thanks

i need code to show a list of options while typing. for example in vb6
when we type the text1. automaticaly vb shows a list of options. like
that i need please help me

I am using vb.net
I have written my own usercontrol button.
I am writing a usercontrol toolbar using these buttons.
I have written a collection class (Button Collection) to contain these

I want to sort a listview on date/number. I've implemented then knowledge
base solution and also know that the listitems collection isn't sorted.
Is there an easy way to sort the collection also? Or at least synchronise it
wit the API sort results?

Please, can sameone tell me what means this sintax?
Const NIM_ADD = &H0
Thanks
BMartins

I know that using the command$ as an argument to a vb exe file but how can I
handle multiple aruguments.
For example,
testres.exe 800 600

I have a short routine that will reverse the "Order-of-Characters" in
a text string. ( part of learning about encryption).
It works nicely...   until you send a Null value.
The problem is because I use a "For i = 1 to nCounter" kind of loop