VB Forum / General / September 2005

Now this is one question by which people may think i am stupid ,
Wheneve i have a look at MSDN help i have all the function which is in
c or c++ . does any one know . what is the method through which a I can
know the exact meaning of that particular function .

how can it be done??
assumption: all databases have same tables
i don't know how to combine them
can anyone teach me??

Hi, anyone know about this?
I current build a program which a lot of textbox, more than 1500 textbox and
i face this kind of error: -
"An unhandled exception of type 'System.InvalidProgramException' occurred in

example: \\systemname\partition\subdir\subdir\temp exists on my network and
if that is plugged into the path in Windows will yield that directory
in VB DIR fails. MVPS.ORG routines for shlapi.dll fail unless that UNC is
mapped to a drive letter. Need to validate that the path is ...

I'm trying to use the MSComm control to send Big Endian 32 bit words,
the MSB of the word is sent first. Any pointers or web sites where I can
read up on this would be appreciated.
TIA,

I recently learned here that Form_Initialize was not the "right" place for
initialization code.(maybe I should say "best" place)
Does the same hold true for classes?
eg:

Trying to automate a web login (username and password) to a Yahoo group.
The purpose is to automate the download of a setup file.
I have tried with a reference to MS Internet controls and it is no trouble
to

I can duplex print a multiple page document using the code in
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828638.  However, I
need to print on the backside of a piece of paper that I print from an ocx in
my program, using the printer object to print some text and ...

I have a fairly large set of data files in .tar.gz (or .tar.Z) format that
I'd like to open through an existing VB interface through the use of an .ocx
or .dll. I've downloaded and tested several to no avail.
The file opens just fine in WinZip (WinZip correctly identifies the ...

I am using Visual Studio Installer to create new setup project and works
fine for new installation.
Now, I want to make changes so if client has program installed on his
computer then it detects and ask if reinstall or update the current program.

Thank you for taking  the time to read my question.
I'm trying to learn the syntax for reading a text file
and then converting each character's hexidecimal value to it's corresponding
decimal value.

I wanna do something very simple but cant figure out how.
i want a button to jump up the form like something actually jumping and
float back down.
So it will jump up so basically changing the top value via  a timer id

I'm trying to create a MMC Snapin using the old VB Snapin SDK.
However, I can't seem to find the help file anywhere.
Anyone have VBSnapInsGuide.chm laying around?

how i can retrive the microprocessor serial number in visual basic 6, and how
i can retrive any specified hardware information?
thanks for help

VB6 : Windows XP
Uh, I can't remeber which library the Toggle Button control is in.
Can anyone refresh my memory?
Thanks,