VB Forum / General / August 2005

I use a "generic" MDI-child form to show and manipulate the records in a
Jet-recordset.
Let's say the form is called frmRecordSet.
From the menu of the MDI-parent, the user can ask the progam to show a

Can someone point me to some code that can validate a textbox back to a date
formatted "mm/dd/yy"?
OR
How can I skip validation on a maskedit control with a mask of mm/dd/yy if

Hello again
I have created a user control to display a custom command button.
Esentially the control has 3 bitmaps on top of each other, and a transparent
label on top of all of them which has code in its following events to

I have been playing with Win32-Graphic-APIs
Sometimes I get the expected results but
especially with patters for brushes I found
strange results

I'm trying to create a program that would ideally run a DOS application
(a file written in Qbasic) from VB6.  I was wodering if that's possible
and if yes how would you go about it????

I am new at this and i am writing a program to run from a CD.  It is to play
videos in a form by using the windows media player object.  it works on my pc
but i tried it on another one that does not have the newest windows media
player and it would not work.  Is there a different ...

I'm trying my hand at Async calls in VB6 :P
I'm using the 'timer technique' in an ActiveX
server.
Initially I used a form Timer and it worked just

Hi All Experts,
              I have a question regarding DLL Hell. I will explain it
clearly. Let's assume that we have two application App1 and App2. Both
App1 and App2 have their own custom DLLs. Incidentally both the App has

Visual Paradigm Smart Development Environment 3.0 for Microsoft Visua
Studio.Net (SDE-VS) is a full-featured UML modeling extension fo
Microsoft Visual Studio.Net. SDE-VS provides a wide range of UM
related activities within the .NET environment. By providing th

There is an addin for VB6 that makes the mousewheel work in the IDE,
and it works great, unless you have multiple monitors and have them
setup in a certain configuration (in my case, 3, with the one on the
far right being the primary monitor).

Is it possible to do sothing like this:
If 1 >= X <= 49 or 100 <= X >= 300 then
    do something
end if

I am baffled as to why the following loop fails to end the looping when it
encounters the first empty row of cells.
           While (cell <> String.Empty)
               Try

vb6
I'm trying to pass a string value which is computed in a Form to a sub in a
class?  I tried to declare the string as public in the Form, however, it the
class did not recognize it.  How can this be done?  

I use Command to read the command-line switch. Easy enough. But is
there a way in code I can Set Command?
tod

I can only find this routine in C and need it in VB6 - can anyone
translate this please:
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unsigned char Calc_checksum(char* sz, int nCount)