VB Forum / General / May 2005

I want to write a program that will be able to send sms through my
mobile phone. I have my mobilephone connected to my PC using the USB
port.
Please hints, links, advise ... wil be well appreciated.

When I was loading cd errors came first cd.  I clicked on retry several times.
I think I bought it from amezon about 8 months ago.  I loaded it on my
previous computer .  Now I got new computer and hence loading on the new one
and erasing on the other.  Any advice is appreciated.

Hello Everyone and thanks for your help in advance.  I am working with the
Microsoft Shared Fax Service and VB.Net.  I am trying to write and
application that reacts to incoming faxes.  There is an article on the
Microsoft site:

Hi Everyone...
In the old days, a database never concerned itself if any field was "empty" or filled with spaces, or whatever.
Now with VB6, the MDB files do show concern. Why?
What danger or risk does managing this sort of thing provide?

Good Morning everyone,
I'm having a dandy time learning VB,  and have finished tweaking the hell\
out of the old "Hello World" beginners program.
Now I am approaching something far more significant, I have a question

Some EXEs have a bunch of icons embedded in it.  Like for instance,
Excel.exe has 22 icons in it.  They use it to display both the
application icon (that would be the first icon) and document icons (2nd,
3rd, 4th, etc...).

I have written a program with VB6 on Win98 OS.  It contains registry commands
and I/O port commands, among many other things.  I am being asked if it can
be used with XP.  Will it work on the XP without any problems?  Is there a
utility to convert the program to work with XP?  ...

is it possible to change a single line in  a text file?
Open "File" For Append   only lets you insert at the end
Open "File" For Binary  has the problem that you never know how long a line
actually is. Therefore the is no command like Line Input

Can someone point me to a resource which shows the Alt+_ for accents in
Spanish?

I'm trying to get used to VB6's error handling and have run into a problem.  
I have a sub, Add, in a module, modBase, that calls a sub, myAdd, in a form,
frmSLIC_report.  If the data that is checked has an error, I want both myAdd
and Add to exit immediately.  I figured that I ...

I have a listbox on form1 and a listbox on form2
I need a way to get form1.list1 to form2.list1
the is what I got
Private Sub Form_Load()

How to define a macro for a specific user path?
if so where and how?
Can we use these custom macros in vb package & deployment?
Thanks

In VB6 we have adopted a common practice of starting applications from Sub
Main() in a module. Within Sub Main() we open any one of a number of main
application forms, depending upon what command-line argument was passed in.
This all worked great.

I have a ActiveX component written in VB6. I need to modify it and make it
connect to the .NET web services. I am looking around for advice or someone
to point me in the right direction.
Thank you all. Help is much appreciated. If some one can post some sample

How can I create an Auto Correct function. that when the User enter data in
a text box it will update if there is a match in a table.
Any sample code?
Thanks