VB Forum / General / July 2005

I have a five column datagrid with fields, controls and data types as
follows:
ID - Primary Key (Hidden) - Long
Date - Date Time Picker (Col 1) - Date

I am trying to find a way to make my vb.net application fullscreen. Is
there a property that i can use to get my desktop dimensions. I would
think that it would be somewhere in the system namespace, but i cant
locate it. can anyone help with this??

Can anyone give me another word or explantion of implementation in the
context of "in function overloading, you can have multiple implementations of
the same function". The word seems to complement the sentence and is keeping
me from understanding the concept.

Could someone please tell me if there is a quick method/statement/etc to
determine whether user has made any changes to an MSFlexGrid cell so I could
run validation in got_focus?  for instance, if user don't entered anything
into a cell...then got_focus should do nothing, however ...

I have this line of code, but the syntax check in VB.NET 2003 and also in
VB.NET 2005 Beta 2 shows as unknown:
Dim local4 As Byte
Fixed(local4 = AddressOf dest(offset))

In VB 6, I am calling an in house written DLL,
when in the DLL I detect a serious problem, I want to
terminate the execution of the DLL.
I have tried to unload the form in the DLL, it has only -

I am using VB5's application settup wizard to create a deployment for my
application.  However, I have noticed that the program does not create a
program group or removal tool for the application.  Instead, it drops a
single icon onto the start menu.

How can I use typelib instead of Declare to access functions in a .dll
that I've written?  I've poked around on google, but I get mostly
tutorials on using typelib to get file information.
-Joel

I know how to do it manually via the menu in Access but how do I do it
from VB code?  Thanks.

I'm attempting to develop a class that processes a flat file but i'm a
little uncertain on the best approach. Here's what I have already in case you
are able to provide any coments...
A flat file is recieved that consists of an unknown number of repeated

I find that i can not find any indicator for a Default Properties in a Class.
It seem that I can not find any dfference between the let get set function
for a non-default one and the default one.
Where do the System remember which properties is the default one?

I know that the VB docs say it's not possible, but is there a way (API-wise)
to display a nonmodal form on a modal form?
This is my problem:
I have a form that performs various day end & month routines including

I'm working on a family project; I work in MA, my mom lives (and will use
the program) in Mexico. I'm using VB6 SP6.  We need to use VB6 to support
Win9x computers, which are still widely used in Mexico and therefore
essential for us to support.

I'm using an application which works only in Win 98 compatibility mode
(using in XP). In this application i lanch an other application, but this
second one works only without compatibility 98 mode. It seems that all that
is lanch by the first application is launch with the win 98 ...

Using VB6
The following line works once then causes Error 53, File not found.
X = Shell(sNotePad + " " + TargetPath, vbNormalFocus)
sNotePad is the path to Notepad.exe and is in double quotes.