VB Forum / General / July 2005

I need to distribute a VB5 ocx and VB5 runtime files.
I don't want to use the wizard, the customer doesn't like it,
does anybody knows how can I achieve that task with IShield Express?
Because there's only a VB6 Virtual machine, is that useful for VB5sp3 too?

I want to extend my existing VB prog by adding a frame control to group some
existing controls like buttons and labels.
Problem is that all labels that I move onto the new frame control do not
appear anymore, even if I select "bring to front" on the label or "send to

My app is made using VB6. It has been installed in many PCs and all are OK.
Today, one customer buy a brand new PC with Windows XP. No other application
software installed except the OS itself. Then, the customer installed my app.
But when he starts to run it, a message shows up: ...

My program growes up and now comes to the limit of available ressources in
Win98/WinME systems
(although I tried to minimize ressources by using control arrays and using
only one 'main' window with stacked containers to avoid duplicate use of

  I am using Visual Basic 6 in window 2000 OS.
  I have a string data from text box , for example "30110100000068" ,
  How to convert the string to Array of Byte  ?
  Anyone have any ideas or suggestion is welcome.

I want to distribute an application that was made years ago in VB 5, this
app also contains several ActiveX.
My question is: Where can I find a decent (modern) installer to achieve this
task?

We are developing a program that uses the spell check in Office using the
Office object. What we do is to check each word.
We want to do the same in OpenOffice.
Don't want to dig into the enourmous OpenOffice SDK.

I have an application in Access which relies heavily on Subforms. I have
downloaded VB 2005 Express with a view to replacing the front end and
keeping the Access database. I have never used VB before. Is there a way to
easily implement subforms?

Hello,
I am using gdi32.dll version 5.1.2600.2180.  I develop an app and use this
to draw a gradient look on the form.  I am using VB and sp6 on XP SP2.  When
I package and give to a user to install.. the gradient does not work and no

In 2001 I wrote a VB program under Windows 95 using some data base stuff.
It worked fine and was validated, but now it fails to execute without error
under Windows XP.
Re-making the executable leads to the offending statement:

I want to handle "kill","ctrl-c" sigkill,sigint signals  in vb.net.
I have done it once in C. It was a cake wake.Could not a figure out how
to do the same in vb.net.
Thanks all..

what would be the way in VB to run a desktop shortcut... I can't just call
the program exe as there are parameters I need that are in the
shortcut....mainly start in
thx.

I am trying to email using MAPI and I run into some problems.  Everytime I
send an email I get an outlook errors:
1) "A program is trying to access email addresses you have stored in
Outlook.  Do you want to allow this?"

i want to write A program in VB for online renewal of the software which is
in VB.
thanks
bitu

Hai All,
I have a problem in VB.Net DataGrid. When I select a Row in th
DataGrid it is not selecting the entire row instead it is selectin
only one column one row. How can it be solved to select a entire row