VB Forum / General / August 2005

is there a way to find out if a particular key already exists in a
collection
without trying to retrieve it and trap the error ?

How do I programatically get current user's desktop path... I do not have to
know the user name's name. Need to XP/2000 and Win9X

Hey, Quite new to VB and I have been searching how to do this with no
luck.  I have a single character and I want to check to see if it is a
number or a character.  Could someone please tell me how to go about
this?  BTW, I am using VB 6.0

In my application I want to change the pagesize of the default printer to
11x17 before I print something and then change back the the default Letter.
I know how to get the defautl printer but when I try to change the
printer.pagesize = 17 it gives me an error saying property is ...

using the following code to loop through all the contacts in MS outlook,
check them individually with an MS access DB on the backend and then make
changes to them if needed.  HOwever, this process is quite slow.  With 50
contacts it takes ~3.5seconds to go through all of them and ...

I'm using vbscript and XP prof.
I need to list the all the Print queues of our print servers, including the
printers shared by computer. In otherwords I need to have a list of all
printers avaiable in my network.

Does any one knows a good tool (MS Access?) in where we can document our
functions/subs we developed in vb6?
Reason is we want to promote software re-usability...
Jan

I've got a VB.NET winform app that needs to return a value to the calling
process/application.  Application.Exit() does not allow values, is there
another easy way to do this?
MTIA

I'm attempting to install service pack 6 for Visual Studio 6.0 and get the
following error during the install:
Setup could not open the file C:\Windows\System32\MSFLXGRD.OCX
I try clicking retry a few times to no avail.  I eventual clicked ignore and

Hello, I want to right click a computer in network neighborhood and then
launch my prog to get the ip adres. i know how to get the ip adres and how to
ad my prog to the right click menu but i want to know how to use bring the
selected computer name to my prog...can anyone help me ...

For some reason MS provide several interfaces for this but refuse to
document them.
I am interseted in using WMPVideoCtrl and am able to add it to a sub, but I
can't make it do anything, presumably I need something like:

Hi, i have started to learn visual basic. the reason is because i am hoping
to use in my final year project at university.
what i wanted to know, is what is the difference between vb and vb.net? do
they have diff objectives? and which of the 2 is the way forward?

I using Delphi 7 and I try to make a function that I use in VB6 later, but I
need retreive some integer parameter from this functio and I try but the vb
give error:
I try this:

  I have create ActiveX DLL (VB6) method as shown below :
    Public Function ReadBlock_Mifare_blk(blkNo As String) As String
    Dim dataRead(16) As Byte
    Dim status As Integer