VB Forum / General / September 2005

I've been given the task of converting all our Access 97 databases to Access
2000.
I found one app that uses a VB6 front end.
I am not a VB6 programmer but I opened the project and found the following:

i would like to make a dial-up connection from vb.
it would seem that the simplest way would be to use an existing connection
saved as a dial-up connection under network connections.  the connection
exists as a desktop icon (shortcut) referencing a target located in Network

I need to list all jpg files from a certain folder.
For that i use the following code:
   sFolder = SourcePath & "\*.jpg"
   sFile = Dir$(sFolder, vbNormal)

anyone knows a good book on design patterns, specificaly for VB6

I am new to VB and I am creating a simple calculator for practice. I am using
VB .Net
I want button's background color to change when mouse hover over it but VB
keep tell me that Name 'color' is not declared.

What is the recommended way to generate a random first random number
using the Rnd function?
I tried using the entire value of Now,
?rnd(-cdbl(now))

We have small application writtten for Palmtop/Pocket PCs in Embedded VB
for Windows CE3.0
When trying to run the same on Windows CE4.2, "MS embedded Visual Basic
Runtime" occured.

I just need a simple exchange access method... I know that may be an oxymoron. I want to connect to an Exchange server on another
domain with an already existing account, loop through each message in the Inbox folder, read it, then delete it programatically...
how impossible is ...

How do I load up a web page in IE from a button on a form?

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I'm looking for other suggestions in creating / writing a text file,
alternatives to Write # and Print #. Write # seems to have a
problem of enclosing things in quotes and there's an annoying

Google answers most any question, but apparently not this one. Has some
clever soul figured out how to change the "Break on" setting in teh IDE
at runtime?
    Sean

I want to set an object variable to the current instance of the VBProject in
VB6.  It should look something like "Set VBI = VBIDE.VBE.VBProjects(1)".
In Excel 2000 this can be done simply by "Set VBI =
Application.VBE.VBProjects(1)" or "Set VBI = Application.VBE.ActiveVBProject"

Hello, i was wondering if there is a way to loop through dates.
e.g.. I want to loop through all dates between March 5th,1990  to April
20th,1996.
I've tried a couple of things with no success and Google gives nothing.

Anyone know where to get dbGrid96.hlp? I've Googled it
and also searched microsoft.com and no luck.
TIA,
NFord

I have several utilities that only need the runtime DLL.  XP comes
with the runtime DLLs included, does Windows 2000 come with them too?
jim
using VB5