VB Forum / General / July 2005

Can one of the gurus on this forum please advise if someone like myself, who
has successfully developed several Access applications over the past 10
years, should now make the move to another development environment - such as
Visual Basic .NET.

Hello,
I asked about this before, but am against deadline and haven't received any
solutions yet, so thought would try again.
I have an app that uses a VB6 front end to an Excel/Word VBA app.When the vb

I have an array on a form. It has six tab entries. I want to turn Enabled =
False for the 3rd entry.
When I code
SSTab1.Tab(2).Enabled = False

I'm trying to call a "Public Shared" function in a dll built in VB.NET from a
VB6 program.
Whenever I try, I get an error saying that the function doesnt exist. I had
doubts that the "Shared" in the VB.NET dll could be the problem. I tried to

If I have a string that I know will always be five characters long, is it
better to declare it
 Dim sStr As String * 5
Or

Hey everybody,
This is not your typical "how to send email from my VB app" question, but it
touches on that. I am aware of the various ways to send email.  For example,
there's the MAPI controls, CDO, even Winsock.

I am looking for a flowcharting program that will allow me to design
my code top down:
1. Start with a very high level (functional) flowchart consisting of a
few functional modules. For example, (a) Start, (b) User Logon, (c)

Our VB6 application uses MS Winsock control. The server Winsock control
sends data 1 by 1 to its clients, but sometimes the data being sent is
truncated and the rest of the data is sent in another package.
For example:

I am wondering if there is a way to create a service that would run on a
server that could monitor all files that are created, moved, or deleted and
trigger an action.  What I want to do is create an automated database of all
files on the server.  When a file is created, I would add ...

 I am using VB6 SP4 W2K OS.
 I have situation that a master program call a child program using
Shell() function .
 The problem i have facing that the child program always raise

I am having a problem with loading two modal forms from both a .BAS module
and from an MDI form. Works fine in the development environment but gives an
"Out of memory" error in the compiled executable. The forms in question are
NOT MDI child forms.

When I run this I see I have 508 records, I looked at several other examples
and don't see why the grid is not displaying the data from the dbrst recordset
Here is my code
Private Sub txtSrchItem_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)

I have an app that uses a VB6 front end to an Excel/Word VBA app.When the vb
part starts up it searches for Excel, Word and VB temp files and deletes
them. This has worked fine before including on my Win XPN Pro/Office 2003
machine. But when I run it under a Virtual PC testbed of ...

I'm new to Visual Basic. I'm getting the above error when the program tries
to issue the following: Set CreateObj = CreateObject(astrClassName)
I'm trying this in VB 6. I can get the original compiled module (VB 4) to
run correctly.

Hi. here is and example of my code. I am new to VB.net.
    Dim intCurID As Integer *** outside of code and  ***                        ***
available to all     ***
       Dim strConnectionString As String = _