VB Forum / General / September 2005

i have got a client server application made in VB6 using an oracle91
databse .It was working fine earlier but now we have deployed server
application in another computer.Doing which it throws the error.
"DATA SOURCE NOT FOUND NO DEFAULT DRIVER SPECIFIED"

I can't use datatable!
I try to write:
Dim myDataTable As DataTable = New DataTable("ParentTable")
I then get " Type expected" for the DataTable.

During the course of a VB6 procedure a want to make a copy of an Access
database, hopefully without closing it as seems to be required by FileCopy.
I  have noted that Windows Explorer has no trouble copying an  open file.
I have included the following code in the procedure largely ...

Hey guys n gals,
I'm creating an application similar to explorer. Everything is fine at
the moment, I have a treeview on the left with a listview on the right.
If i populate the treeview out, then the listview gets updated.

I use VS2005 create a project – “Slemail”. In DataSet1 there’s a table of
customer email address data - “slemail”.
I drag “slemail” table to the form. It displays the data by DataGridView
control and creates “SlemailBindingSource”, “SlemailTableAdapter” and

I'm trying to update values in a page opened from VB
Dim IE as object
Set IE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
IE.Navigate App.Path & "\pageofinterest.htm"

Suppose I have an appliation made in VB6 which connects to SQL2000.
The applications creates a DSN(old style) to connecto to the server.
The user has a login an a password to use the application. The server
validades Windows NT login.

How whould one handle that? Let's say we have a menu callback function wich
should call up a new form. Form should 'behave' depending on the parametar
beeing passed to it.
So, if I have, for instance:

Is there a way to call an external .EXE from within a VB6 .EXE ?
The EXE is a completely separate entity from the compiled VB6 object.

I have a small VB6 application which shells to a program that will
decrypt an encrypted file and then open the decrypted file in Word 2003.
The program was working without a problem until a few days ago when it
started giving runtime error 5121 when it tried to open the file. The ...

Tools: SQL SERVER 2000
         Visual Basic 6.0
I made a DSN-less conection to the server above. It doesn't use Windows NT
Trusted connection, it uses the Server authentication and own user. I have

Suppose I have a VB6 application running. I need by using code, self-destroy
the application, i.e. auto-delete the application file while running(may be
right after the END statement).
Any ideas?

I have been asked an interesting question by one of my clients who bought
one of my programs which holds a large database.
I guess i should feel proud and privilaged on what they have asked but i
dont think its right!

I am very new into VB.NET. When I start a VB projet, I am into Form1. No
problem to do some programming into that form. But, with a button, how can I
get to load & execute form2 ?
I know how to developp form2. But I dont know how to switch from form1 to

I am using the winsock control to talk to hardware at the other end.  It
works great, but if there is a disconnect in the internet connection the
program errors.  Is this because winsock is listening all the time?  If so,
is there a way to check to see if the connection is up ...