VB Forum / General / August 2005

I would like to fill a multidimensional array.
Data is
dog, food
dog, brush

What is the best or more efficient way to check if an object exists in a
collection. I normally try to get the name and trap the error, but is there a
more clean approach to this?

Hi. I have a small problem. I want that when I click on a button a form pops
up relative to the button (which is located on a frame) i.e the bottom of
the form, that pops up, is just above the top of the button and the op-up
form left is the same as teh left of the button.

After reading through some of the MSDN articles on how to do this, I have
managed to call .NET classes from VB 6. However I have a problem. I have a
class that fires events and I programatically create an instance of it in VB
6. How do I set up an event handler for a specific ...

Hi all..
I want to know your opinion and also the best practice about this.
In win application, it is better
1>    open connection all the time, and close connection after the

My VB6 App opens an Access Report and generates report in PDF, and then
open/load outlook and place the generated report as attachment to outlook
once the report is closed. This is accomplished by:
Switching over to the Acrobat Printer (i.e. PDFWriter) from the default

After saving a string variable to a file and then reading the string from the
file I am getting ""variable"".  How can I eliminate the """" from the
variable and make them "variable"?
Example code is:

Very roughly, if I send a WM_PASTE message (does that exist??) to
another window using SendMessage or somesuch, will that application do
a paste in most cases?
Just want to know whether I am barking up the right tree.

I'm putting data into a MSFlexGrid control one row at a time with user
intervention between each row data.
I want to adjust the grid so the last data entered is shown, basically
chainging TopRow so the last visible row is the one that holds the last

which has faster processing, using a sub or function?
For instance:
Private Function()
Msgbox "Hello"   'however, end-program will process a lot more

I've got some checkboxes on a form. I save a "1" to a csv .txt file if the
value of the checkbox is 1 or vbchecked. I want to be able to read in a csv
file of 0's and 1's in quote marks and have my program checkmark check boxes
on the form if the value of the input data for that ...

Could anybody help me with this subject? I'm working on an application that
should append/delete users to certain shares on our network servers. This app
is going to do same things as Windows' Sharing Tab which means to append
rights to open, modify, control etc. certain folders ...

Pardon my newbieness. I'm sure this can be done, just need to know how.
I have vb apps that depend on a server being logged in. If the server
is rebooted (which happens and I have no control over that), my apps do
not run. Is there a way I can programmatically log in to the server ...

I have been reading about the above subject and I am wandering: would an
ActiveX speed up execution of code in vb6 ?
I have a program where gps input is read from a serial port. The data is
processed and generates a ship's drawing moving along on a vector chart.

I'm wondering how most developers think when coding with regards to steps of
code. Is it best to have as much done as possible on one line, making the
code faster, or is it better to break it up a bit so that it's more readable
& easier to debug? As a simple example, ...