VB Forum / General / April 2005

I m thinking to build application point of sale system using VB.
I have never done before so I'm very much new and couldnt understand where
should i start from.
Can anyone guide me?

i currently working on a email client program using VB to send email with
TIFF File attachment.  But the attachment cannot be open while the email is
receive on the recipient side. The file size always shows 1kb less than the
original file attached.  It happens to zip, image file ...

Could someone tell me how to open word 2002 (with a specified file) in vb6
please?
So far I have
Dim w As Word.Application

I am having a problem with the shell command in vb6:
Shell "f:\filecode\filecode.exe /p " & pword & " /f ""temp1.doc"" /s " & sp
& " /d"
When I run this, the application calls for a value for the /p parameter.

"Dear Mr Customer*,
"We appreciate the commissions for bespoke programming in Visual Basic
3, 4, 5 and 6 that your company has awarded to us over the past seven
years. I see from our accounts department that we have billed you for

I am rewriting an Access database replacing global variables with Class
Modules. Only problem: How can I create an instance in form1, fill it with
data, load form2 and access the data from form2?

Why does VB generate a FoxPro .frx vild for every one of my VB (6.0) forms?
If it is not necessary to have the form, how can I keep the form from being
generated?
Thank you

What's the syntax for RegEx to specify that I want to match something that's
NOT a string I specify?
Example: "HELLO WORLD"
RegEx (wanted) = select string that is NOT "WORLD"

I gather there's a petition going round to try to persuade Microsoft to
produce "VB.COM" - or some new version of VB that's backwards compatible,
out of the backlash from them not providing migration paths from VB6 to
VB.NET / VB2005.

I am looking for vb.net newsgroups, specifically web
applications

Hello,
I want to put some compound content (including text and graphics) into
clipboard. But the clipboard only allow me to put text and graphics
separately. How can I orgnize my content into a single entity and put it into

Please, can sameone tell me what means this sintax?
szTip As String * 64
Thanks
BMartins

I'd like to use an excel graph in my vb program to represent data as I
collect it from some test hardware.  I can show an excel graph by
placing an ole control on a form and selecting "excel chart," but I have
no idea how to populate it with data, display an x-y scatter graph, or ...

...of a source code formatter that will work on VBA (Visual Basic for
Applications) files?
TIA!
Robert Davis

The vast majority of my customers (PC/Windows Users) do not want to wait six
weeks for the mail to clear customs, anti-terror inspections, etc. Most have
no access to broadband, and given that broadband and cable are
infrastructure dependent technologies, it is unlikely that the ...