VB Forum / General / September 2005

Hi. We are running several VB (VB6 SP6) exes in a Windows Server 2003
environment as scheduled tasks (daily). The exes will run with no problems
for a few days and then start to fail (first we would see an error when the
exe tried to send an email out and then the exes appeared ...

This is kind of in relation to my earlier question but slighly different.
In the mshflexgrid i have now managed to get my dates showing correctly in
the dd/mm/yy format
( thank you BOB! )

I'm using standard VB slider control. I want it to match the background
color. How can I set it to transparent or change its back color?

In my app, I want the main form fixed sized. But I also want it to be
minimized.
I found if I set borderstyle to fixed, then minimize button gone. Is there a
way to do this.

What am I doing wrong?
I have a userform with 2 textboxes on it and a command button. I want to
dsiplay the form, be able to enter data into the textboxes, click the
command button and have the form go away. I then want to do some

Hi, I need to add a link to a website in a menu (if possible), or on a
form, that will open the user's default browser.  I'm using  vb6 (pro).
I'd be very grateful for any help.
Regards, Graham

i want to build a monitoring appln in VB, which will check that whether
'particular' applns are running on a server and if they ar closed down,
then it will restart those applications. Like the way, it is manually
done by checking whether appln exist in task manager and then run ...

Does anyone know if there is an end-of-life support date for visual Basic
6.0? If so, when is it? I know I read something somewhere but don't remember
where.
Thanks

This seems to be a simple thing but I cannot figure out how to do it. I
have a VB3 program which repetitively requests input from the user and
displays two lines of calculated results in a textbox. After repeated
entries, the textbox fills up and subsequent lines require that the ...

I am looking for a code that will convert two digit years in a date to four
digit year. Example, 01/01/95 will be 01/01/1995 and 01/01/02 should be
01/01/2002. I know there is a formula or cur off number used in converting
the year part and I do not know what it is. Any help will ...

Just having a problem with my usual nemisis the good ole UK date.
I am working on an invoice sheet which saves data to a database.
the date is saved in a field called invoicedate and saved in dd/mm/yy
format, in a date/time data type msaccess field.

In my application I open an application and send input to print the apps
document.  I am wondering how I can find out if it is done printing before I
close the app.  Right now, I am calling the sleep api and wait 5 seconds.
However this is not a good approach because different ...

Hi...
Novice here so hopefully this isn't too dumb for most of you:
I'm building a SMALL VB6 (not .NET) app... to track names/addresses
w/comments to see who's been contacted and for what.  Development PC is XP

My application is using listview and some standard components, but all these
components cannot display or keyin other language like Chinese characters. I
have set the Regional setting.
I have tested that Ms Word and Ms SQL db can read and write the Chinese

I just want to verify that using the month view control rather than the
calendar control (mscal.ocx) is a better idea in my application.  Using the
calendar control means having to distribute mscal.ocx which can conflict with
other versions from other applications.  If I ...