VB Forum / General / August 2005

Shalom again,
I have another question. I would like to program (in visual basic) my pc,
thus wherever there is an activity coming from the microphone it would raise
a "flag".

I have VB6.0 on WinXP Pro.
I have created a web browser with VB using Microsoft's Web Browser Control.
I have noticed that there are many events which are fired after a web page
has been completely loaded. I am using some of these events to retrieve and

I am printing the form that is displayed using the PrintForm method.  Prints
the form OK located to the top left of the paper.  Now I want to center the
form on the printout.  The help file says to use the following statements to
do this, but it does not have any effect on the ...

I need sosme code which will loop through records looking for duplicates and
incrementing each by 1.  If 10 records have the the name James in the first
name field, the second James will be James 2, the third James3, etc.  I am
creating user accounts and each must be unique.

I have a datagrid linked to a query in Access. I can use this query to
delete records from within Access but when I try to do the same from the
datagrid I get the message 'Insufficient key column information for updating
or refreshing'. However it lets me edit the records. I have ...

I get the "Either BOF or EOF is true, or current record has been deleted.
Requested operation requires a current record." when i have loaded a listview
with records on a form. Happens when i double click on the Listview or click
the command button EDIT, which edits the record. I ...

Which one of these is faster:
#######################
1) Inside a Loop:
   If bResult = False Then    // Is it faster to check the Boolean value

Hey all,
I have a little VB6 app that I'm working on, and I want to change the
behavior of my combo boxes. At present, if I put the control focus on one,
then press, say, the 'S' key, its list goes to the first item that starts

I'll try to explain the problem :
I've created an application that its supposed to process some data read from
a file.
So, I have an OpenFile form that open and verifies the data, and stores them

I have seen a number of posts here and on the net as to how to use Command$.  
I am familiar with how to create a string, set it equal to Command$, and then
parse it or do whatever I want.
However, I am curious as to the best practice in controlling more complex

Hello. Are there documented standards for valid strings for
WritePrivateProfileString(), etc.? All I could find was that a section in the
initialization file must have the following form:
[section]

In VB.Net, if I create a project with the same name of a function, I
cannot use that function within the code as it gives me an error
(function is namespace).
Is there a way to circumvent this ?

Gentlemen, I already have VB 6 applications running in my website.
In a short sentence, why is it convenient for me to switch to VB.NET?.
Can VB.Net read VB6 applications?. Thanks. Guillermo.

looking for a very simple network type manager, which can detect all PC's
connected in a LAN/Workgroup.....send a message to them, copy a file to each
one; need with vb6 source code.  Any suggestions?

I am using a Web Browser control in my app.  VB6 to open a pdf document so
that the user can preview the document.
On my machine Windows 2000 SP 4 works fine, On XP SP 2 it does not work, the
user get a prompt to  open or save the file, if click on open the pdf file