VB Forum / General / June 2005

I wrote an application that, in part, looks for and eliminates
unwanted control codes in plain text files by searching their ASCII
decimal values.  It also locates, but leaves intact, certain control
codes needed for formatting such as Chr$(12) (page break), Chr$(13)

Sorry just one last question!
I also have troube when the database becomes corrupted now and again, which
i think its due to the users computers being left on all day and never
rebooted.

If style of listbox style is checkbox the sendmessage with tabstops fails.
Any one have a solution that avoids fix width fonts and counting spaces?

Is there anyway to simulate pressing the F11 key? I have our IE browser
configured in Full Screen and users keep clicking the restore button that is
located in upper right-hand-corner that makes puts the browser out of Full
Screen.

Im using the common dialog with the .ShowSave function to save some
data from my form. Why is it that whenever a link is clicked it is seen
as the file itself. For example I want to save my data and i browse to
the desktop. On the desktop I have a link to a folder called

I have a flat-file that I need to read. Once done, I need to clear that file
for the next batch of incoming records. I don't want to delete/recreate the
file, because it resets the security, and I need this file to be
world-writeable all the time.

If I try to use the Vb6 Help file it gives me the following error:
An unknow error has occured.
I have reinstall vb6 and it still does it. Can someone  tell how to correct
this problem.

Since I'm new with it is ti possible to insert a vbs script into an
excel's workbook code? I've tried to import it but it gives me syntax
error. Alternative could i execute a vbs script on exit of an excel
workbook?

Has anyone successfully used Namespace extentions in VB.NET? I am trying to
find some documentation about it for VB, but cannot find any! Loads available
for c#, Delphi etc, but none for VB :-(
If this possible, and if so, can anyone point me in the right direction of a

I'm getting a strange error message that I don't know that I've seen before:
"Object library invalid or contains references to object definitions that
could not be found."

I am running VB6 SP5. I have experienced these unexpected crashes on
occassion. Is the following fix considered to be a good one?
FIX: The Windows Common Controls Mscomctl.ocx or Comctl32.ocx may cause
your application or the Visual Basic 6 IDE to unexpectedly quit, or you

I want to develope windows applications (including reports) and then deploy
to other PCs.
I will only use visual basic and crystal reports.
Which version of visual studio .net do I need ?

Could someone please tell me how do I code my VB codes so that after I
changed a cell value excel will run calculation?  Right now I had my excel
VBA in manual calculation mode or it will get screwed up each times it calls
to my dll.  It's mandatory I run it in manual.  Is there ...

Hi;
I am quering Active Directory and putting the results of users in the
listbox.  Then the user can click on the listbox which should populate the
textboxes with the fields from AD, which works fine as long as each field has

I have a program I thought was fairly well debugged but I've found a
condition I don't understand.
With the program running and the form on screen, I right click on the
programs ?shortcut? on the start menu.  At this point I have several options