VB Forum / General / April 2005

Gah, dug through my VB6 book for a good 15 minutes and I cannot find the
command to Close my Application that I made in VB6.... (Its an automated
Program I want to close after all the code is ran)
Someone tell me please before I pull my hair out :(

I'm launching a free online technical magazine, Bitwise, this June which
will include a regular VB column. Now, I am uncertain as to how to balance
coverage of VB6 v VB.NET at the moment. Our main VB writer is Dermot Hogan,
who's written the VB column in PC Plus magazine in the UK ...

I have a lot of VBA routines, mainly array handling, that I could transfer
to VB6 ActiveX dll's.
Would it be best to make all different dll's for every routine or might I
just as well put it al in one dll?

I have been trying to extract icons from an exe file and
load them into a listview.  I found some sample where the
use the ExtractIconEx function to get the icons and then
using the OleCreatePictureIndirect function to convert

Can anyone tell me how to write a procedure to precisely emulate the Access
Nz function in VB 6.0
Many thanks.

I was messing around the other day trying to find out how to get the text
out of a running IE instance and found it wasn't possible, but while doing
it discovered that you can't use the AddressOf operator on the function
you're in - is this a known bug?

Again having problems inserting text by code in a RichTextBox, now with tab
stops.
In the sub where I insert the text, I have the following (the form has
ScaleMode set to 6 - Millimeters):

I have just placed a ComboBox on a form and tried to modify the height
property to match the TextBoxes on the form.
However, VB gets nasty and refuses because the "height property is
Read-only"

I would like to select items from a list box. Items need to be selected on
pressing the right mouse click and not the left mouse click. Wheneneve I
click the right mouse button on a particular list item, the item needs to be
selected.

Hi, I just started with VB to create a VERY simple Outlook script.
It just takes the first email in a folder, gives it the title "a", and
then tests the title. How come the third check fails (see **** ERROR
IS HERE).

OK, I feel like an idiot, but I can't seem to sort and rename files in
VB.net.  I see a bunch of utilities out ther to do this, but I used to
be able to do this in a number of languages and I want to write my own
routine in VB.net.

Could someone help me get put icons on a list view
control? I am working in VBA and I don't have a picture
box control.  I used the ExtractIconEx function to extract
the icon from the exe file, it works fine. Now, I need a

How do I obtain the text from a web page displayed in a webbrowser control
without using the clipboard?
Thanks in advance.

I am writing a backup program.  Is there a way to tell if a file is
open by a another program prior to attempting to copy it?

Thinking about it, the wizard available to classic VB programmers
auspiciously to allow them almost seamless conversion to VB.Net is
really just a political gimmick. It's just there so that Microsoft can
tell anyone who asks, sure, we gave 'em a conversion tool! Not many