VB Forum / General / September 2005

I have (had) the following problem which i worked around but i would still
like to find an answer.
if myDate is e.g. : #02/04/1998# how do i extract the year ?
Year(myDate) is only for VBA.

I have a filelistbox (srcFILE) which starts of at compile time with a
pattern of *.txt;*.doc.
However I want to add the following....
3 check boxes (control array ckFT)

I am using VB 6 and Crystal Reports 9. How can I pass a discrete value to
crystal report ? What references should I include ? Thanks.

This is the first time I'm using crystal report in VB and I want the
report to display only one record of the db.
The report will show the details of the invoice...
Users will choose in VB form which invoice to display in the report. My

I'm running VB6 SP6. After installing .net Framwork 1.1 SP1, any activity in
vb debug mode becomes extremely slow - cannot insert breakpoint during debug,
cannot highlight and add watch, cannot type in anything in the step-in code.
We've also noticed 100% CPU usage during debug ...

Can anyone tell me where I'm going wrong.
A = a dictionarybase object of type B entries
C =  a class with a member of type B
Class C

I am NEW to Visual Basic. I have an extensive background in COBOL and some
pretty decent experience in Access and Excel. I am looking for a real good
book that will help me get up to speed pretty quick with VisualBasic. Does
anyone have any suggestions???

Pardon my newbieness.
I'm using a datagrid control to display the results of a query. Results
similar to this:
Name   Region   Received  Follow-Up

I have created an ActiveX server exe and all is well, except, when the
application starts, it's curdir is the System folder, and not the folder
where the prorgram resides.
I put a "ChDir App.Path" in my startup code, but sometimes I still get the

Here's a stupid question...VB6
Is there any way for me to declare a constant = a variable?
I need to declare a password string as a constant, but I have it
encrypted.  So when I decrypt the password, I want to set the Const

I thought this would have been easy.  I've created a DLL with a couple of
public and friend functions.  I add reference to the dll in Access and then
declare a variable as to that datatype.  However, when I try and use it I
don't see any of the functions available.  The dll works ...

I was fiddling around in the immediate window and found that the \ operator
did not work in the way I had thought
for example:    7.5 / 0.6 = 12.5
while:        7.5 \ 0.6 = 8

I developed an Application that sends email notifications using the
current users mailbox.
When this application was developed we were using Outlook 2000 and
there was no problem.

i am playing around with classes as its something i havent used before and
would like a grounding in it before continuing to learn .net so i thought why
not place all my database conenction details in a class so i can just include
it in my projects however i get an error when i ...

I've seen a couple net samples for making tool tips.
They give the ability to show a tool tip over a control on the form in your
own app.
I'm wondering if there's a way to show a tool tip when cursor is over