VB Forum / General / September 2005

Does anyone know of a DLL or class that will scan if a particular port on a
particular IP Address is Listening. I dont want to open a connection.

Hi Folks, this has been discussed in this forum before I know, but I am
still struggling to get to grips with the best method of showing a PDF in my
VB Form!
The Acrobat SDK seems unwieldy to say the least and the ActiveX control they

I am getting an error any time I try to adjust my Data Soucre (ODBC) settings.
Actually I am unable to open any of the DSN connections under User DSN and
System DSN.
Whenever I try I get this error" The setup routines for the Microsoft Access

I'm writing a program in VB which will read all files from a folder that I
specify. For instance the folder name is "D:\process"
Folder "D:\process" is contniiously getting the files every 1 minniutes from
another server  via FTP. What I'm basically looking for is I need to ...

My scanner auto saves filenames with an auto incrementing number on the end.
I can specify a filename, and the software appends 0001, 0002 etc onto each
successive scanned document. I've now accumulated dozens, if not hundreds of
files with this extension, spread across several ...

How to set Ms Access database file properties (author, title,
comments,etc.) using VB??

I have an application that has multiple forms (about 25).  I have placed a
timer in each of the forms.  
The timers interval in all of the forms have been set to 60000 (1 minute) in
the form load event.

In the Open Common Dialog, I want to be able to select multiple files. I see
how to set the Flags property to cdlOFNAllowMultiselect. Does this only work
in the non-Explorer type of dialog? When I set Flags to
"cdlOFNAllowMultiselect or cdlOFNExplorer", the FileName property ...

I am using a combo box that, on a got focus event, I want to highlight the
text in the combo box. However, when I run the code I am getting Runtime
Error 380 "Invalid property value".  I have used the similar code elsewhere
without any problem.  

I have this VB6 program Main Menu is MDIForm and most of the other forms are
Child Forms. I have disabled the Control Box, so if the user clicks the X on
the MDIForm he/she is prompted if they want to exit the program, but the
Active Screen disappears if the user selects No, how ...

I have a copy of MS Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Edition that I purchased
in about 1999.  I do a lot of serious programming in Access databases, but
lately I have wanted to work in just VB.  I am asking what upgrades have
come along.  Do I need to purchase a particular one or are ...