VB Forum / General / July 2005

This is kinda a crazy one, so i thought i would post it up...
I have an application that is spawned if there is a fatal error in the
primary application.
This spawned program simply goes out and looks for orphaned applications

I am considering moving a fairly large vb6 standard exe project (20
forms, 40 classes, 5 modules) to VB2005.  It uses 2 third party controls
(both having to do with TCP/IP) for which vendors provide a direct .NET
1.1 replacement (and .NET 2.0 replacements are in the works).

Are there any VB6 P2P sources available on the net?
I've written a P2P application in VB6 and it works fine, but would like to
see how other people did it :)
Thanks,

I am having a strange problem on one computer. Randomly the system does not
complete the code in the Form_Load event for various forms. For example,
Form_Load has code to center the form on the screen, load translations of the
labels to foreign languages, and populate the lists ...

What is the most efficient way to do this using VB6:
I want to fill a ListBox with the files that are located in a folder
on a networked computer.  Purely as an example, imagine the files were
located here:

Sorry I can't find a better place to post it.
I finished my software and am ready to publish it as "freeware". I know
there are many different freeware liscense. Could anyone tell me what's the
difference between them and how should I write my liscense agreement? Great

How do I obtain the current year ??
Do I need to use an api for that?

I have this big problem. My Regional configuration has to be
Spanish(Colombia).
This means that real numbers are like this 1,3 insted of 1.3.
So when I read this real number from a table  I get something like 0,7. And

Anyone know if VB 5/6 applications will run under 64 bit versions of Windows?

Being somewhat new to VB6, I was wondering how I can tell if an array has
been dimed or not.  ie, at different places in a program, there can be a
ReDim of an array to a particular size.  However, it might not have been
Dimed yet.  I tried using UBound to check, but it got ...

I've developed an ocx, it works fine.
But it needs to know the handle of the form.
Yes, I use FindWindow, you may say. But what if I don't know the name of the
form.

I know this is almost off-topic, but I'll take what comes...
Anyone know how to prevent corrupted files?  I can't tell you how many times
I've had users call with some sort of weird error and I go to their box,
uninstall and reinstall it and it works fine.  Is it more likely a ...

I am in need to work with VB with database as
FielMaker 6.0. please assist me
to make a connection string for connecting Vb to Filemaker6.0
please provide the connection string.

Is there a way to have a MSFlexiGrid ToolTip show the contents of the
cell the mouse is hovering over?  I know you can get a tool tip for
the grid as a whole, but is there any way to recognize the contents of
the actual cell and display that?  This is needed because the cell

I have an MDI form with MDIChild forms. I also have "Window" menu with
mnuSubWindow. I would like when the MDIChild form get created, to add that
to the mnuSubWindow. Then, when a user click on any of the sub menu under
"Window", to go to the selected MDIChild form. I could add ...