VB Forum / General / October 2005

I'm trying to get a list of all files in the "user\Temporary Internet Files"
folder, but I only get one file: desktop.ini, which isn't even there. The
folder size in correct, but the "count" property says 1, eventhou there are
more files in that folder. The same code works fine ...

Hi, iam using VB 2005 express edition Beta
iam trying 2 read data from the serialport but everytime i run my
program it freezes. is this the right way 2 read data from the
serialport? or is there anything els i have done wrong?

What is the significace of attribute usage which is denoted as follows
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = True
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = False

I assumed this would be a really easy challenge, but VB6 doesn't seem to
want to play.
Very simply I tried the following:
on mousedown event capture existing x and y

warning....dumb newbie question ahead....

Hi,
Guess I'll quit doing this test every time I want to set some object to

I'm Am running vb script in Excel sheet, trying to use variable in
Range function and dont have any idea how.
Example :
let say my range to select is

I'm looking for lowlevel information about DDE. What
does this mean? I'm not really sure myself yet. <g> I'll
tell you what I think it means though.
DDE ("dynamic data exchange") involves creating some

i need to write double number to a fixed lengh, es.:
3    ->  3.00
3.3 -> 3.30
can i use format????

I would like to include a piece of code which will cause my form to be
always visible even if it is not the active window and another program
is displaying on the same screen area.
Other windows programs seem to refer to this with an 'Always on top'

I have an application that works fine, but one or two time for week, I
get an error to try print in Crystal Report. The error says ".exe has
generated errors ...". In the DrWatson I see a new error c0000005
(Access Violation)...

           I have that strange problem. My application can accept commands
from command prompt and if there are more commands it will store commands in
buffer and execute one by one
Everything is fine and dandy when application is up and running and after

This is similar to deleting, moving, replacing files that are in use
by doing it during a reboot, except I want to run a utility (.exe)
during this period.  
jim

Hello all,
Im new in .net , and when I try to run a tiny program, has two options  
Start or Start without Debugging. When I try to run it directly  (start  or
F5) the entire .net crash and I have to start all over again, running without

Sorry, but this might be long.  My company wants a new app that I'm
going to build to have an Outlook style interface -- treeview on the
left, "data" pane on the right.  I don't want to add 10-20 frames and
have those loaded up with controls for each possible node type of the

I have a listview called "lstErrors" that I have populated from a database.
I would like to be able to double-click on any row and see the contents in a
message box.
I know that it will be a combination of SelectedItem, Index and SubItems but