VB Forum / General / August 2005

   I used Double var to  get the following exp claculated,
   7064.93105099284 * (1 - 2 / 100) and I got the result as,
6923.63242997298. But When I used Calculator to do the evaluation of the same
exp, I got

Hiya,
I'm sure this has been covered before, but I can't find the right words to
narrow down a search, so my apologies for asking what may be a common
question.

Please help,
I require to prompt on a customer master file of 45,000 records.  When I
load all these into my recordset it takes a long time (20 - 30secs).  This is
unacceptable for my system.  Can anyone show me some code that will allow

I need to show a flexgrid with the data in order by an index, is this
possible, I haven't found anything to show how.

Spent the last week getting back to using VB6 after a couple of years, and
this looks like an incredibly simple thing, but I've forgotten the problem
... I'm trying to assign text from a combo to a label. If the combo has an
ampersand, then I get the underline instead. For ...

Anyone know what this means and how I can successfully download SP2? Many
tries, all failed with that error number. Thanks!

We are in the process or reviving an old application written in Visual Basic
4.0.  We would like to convert this project to Visual Basic .Net.  Are there
any wizards or tools that can help automate this for us?

I would like to include in a form load event the following
Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim SelSubject As String
   If [ACERTAIN FORM IS OPEN] Then

I would like to get into programming for Windows but am confused as to
the best/lowest price way to start. I am looking for software which
would licence me to sell the code.
What is the lowest price entry software for Microsoft software?

I want to make a app can send/receive sms from nokia 3310. I need its source
code  or refferrences that i use to build its code.
please

I have to collect some sub items from all the selected items in a
listview control (VB6.0).  That is no problem I googled and found some
windows api that supposedly is much faster then looping through and
checking each listitem selected property.  Here  is the code I am using.

Just a little clarification please!
Microsoft is only selling Visual Studio 2003 now?
The cheapest version, Express, does not allow the use of C# ?
A PC would need the .NET software on it to be able to install an app

Please help if you can.
I am trying to call a web service which require the log on information of
the user (Windows Impersonation) from VB6
If i call it from c# I use:

We are using the TypeOf  statement to know the type of the control, but
sometimes this control is not referenced in the project references which
produces compilation error.
How I could know the type of the control without using the TypeOf statement?

Could someone please tell me why listbox wouldn't let user hold down control
while making multiple selection?  Is there a way or other control option that
allow user to do that?