VB Forum / General / April 2005

For a beginner project i am creating a simple taskpad, what I would like to
do is have the text stay on the pad.
Not saved to a file. Open the application and there is your notes. How could
I go about doing this.

I am using VB6 W2K or XP for the client and W2K running IIS for the web
server.  I need to be able to send an xml document to a service on the
server and get an xml doc back.  I am hoping someone can point me in the
right direction as to which technology I should use.  I am thinking ...

I have made VB6 program to call open excel and pass over values, then to run
new row of values upon a second input from VB program. Fisrt set is fine. BUT
it keeps opening a new application of Excel whenever i want to calculte new
valkues from program.. Anyway to tell it to "stay ...

in the VB editor you can check in/out single modules from source safe (if
you choose the correct settings). This is not possible in the VBA (note the
"A") editor. Is there a tool that supports check in/out and fetch from
SourceSafe inside the VBA editor?

I am having problems with my SQL in which i want it to return to me all the
records in date order desc.
The code i am using now is :-
sSQL = "Select * from TABLE1 where comments & followcoms & event_ID like '%"

I've decide to try change some apps from text file to mdb and I'm
obviously doing something wrong.My app is currently on several separate
machines.I'm displaying data on a flexgrid,loaded from a text file into
a UDT,about 7000+ entries.I made a mdb using Access2000 from office

If I have a form and I move continuosly the mouse inside it the CPU usage is
about 3%. If I put about 6000 controls (labels) in the form  and I move the
move continuosly the mouse inside it the CPU usage raises at 50%. Also if I
hide all the controls the CPU usage remains the ...

Hello everyone, I need to get the binary image of a variable's content and
then copy it to string. I mean, if:
Dim iInt

I am stuck, I've searched all over Google and the Microsoft web site,
but cannot find an answer to what should be an easy question.
I have a toolbar button with a style of 5 (tbrDropdown).  How can I add
ButtonMenu items to the toolbar at runtime?

I have a bunch of compiled VB6 programs which used to work fine.  Now
installed on machines running Win XP Professional they are hugely slower
running.  Updated to SP6 and recompiled - no difference.  Any ideas?

I have 2 printing questions"
(1) When printing, how can I tell if the printer being used is a
text-only printer?
I am testing for Printer.DeviceName = "Generic / Text Only", which

Is it possible to highlight a row in an MSFlexgrid control using code?

There are numourous files started by a service or boot sequence which
are not required and consuming my memory. Is there a way to kill those
files (visible only in task manager processes) by a vbscript or VB6? I
am already stopping the unwanted services by a vbscript but unable to

are there any useful articles about that?
What about COM Objects?
Any Hints
thx

I have a file that could be opened by more than one process using
Open LogFile For Append Shared As hFile
Does the shared flag allow me to write with more than one process sending a
few bytes more or less simultaneously?