VB Forum / General / July 2005

I'm definng grammars in an xml file and loading them like so..
myGrammar.CmdLoadFromFile "sol.xml", SLODynamic
But it is still recognizing words not from my list. How do I go about
restricting to just the words I have

I have a really long byte array in memory that I want to save into a text
file.  When i loop threw the byte array with somthing like:
   For i = 1 To Length
       txt = txt & Chr(bytes(i))

I have the following strange problem:
I have an access project in which I use VB very often. I want to create a
sub that accepts 3 parameters, so I wrote the following sub:
private sub abcd(a As string, b As integer, c As integer)

I wish to start using some form of Visual Basic but not sure where to
start.
I would like to write a stand alone app where
1. a series of pictures is displayed where each picture has an

I have some code in a routine that includes:
Dim objMSHTML As New MSHTML.HTMLDocument
Dim objDocument As New HTMLDocument
Set objDocument = objMSHTML.createDocumentFromUrl(strURL, "")

I thought I would put this out for anyone who had the same kind of problem I
had, but first I want to thank Chris for setting me on the track to finding
my answer.
I used InstallShield (Vs 3.5) to create an install package for a VB6

Does anyone know how to  retreive a user's system date settings in VB 6?
What is the function/api?  What do I look for?
I tried by looking in the MSDN Help in VB 6 but it only gives guidance
on formating the date.  Anyone know how to retrieve the system date

In VB.NET 2005 Express beta 2, I cant debug my application when I insert a
breakpoint it never is reached, a message like "No debug symbols loaded,
breakpoint will likely not be hit"
Any idea ?

I have need to allow for vertical resizing of a form, but to restrict
horizontal resizing?  Does anyone know of an easy way to do this, or have any
sample code to accomplish it?

I am not using visual basic for applications.  I am writing a program in VB
that runs in windows that takes data from an ascii file and puts it into an
Excel Spreadsheet.  I have figured out how to put data into a spreadsheet.  
Sometimes I want to write data to different ...

I have an incredibly easy question.  How can I determine the what the system
root folder is?  Some OS use c:\windows and some use c:\winnt.
I cannot remember the best way to handle this situation?
Thank you,

First of all I hope you dont mind posting a vbscript query in a vb forum.
I have been using the dictionary object in many of my ASPs. Now all of a
sudden the dictionary object doesnt create anymore. It gives an error at the
point where the code tries to create the object. Here is a ...

Hi, in Outlook 2000 PST archives can grow to a maximum of 2gigs. I've a
large number of archives all of which are significantly smaller. I'd
like to merge them together into almost 2gig files, and once I upgrade
to Outlook 2003 merge them into one file.

Using VB5, I would like a countdown timer to an event which will happen in
August, counting days, hours, mins and secs.
I have had a go at this before, but I couldn't seem to get the math right.
If my event is going to happen on 14:00, which means my days remaining

I'm trying to write a script, run as Excel Macro, that would be able to
fetch the specified URL and save it to local disk. I need especially the
images - but not all, just the specified images (the rest are unneeded, but
not unwanted).