VB Forum / General / October 2005

Hi Gang
I have a new (small) project at work where I have to open a few text
files that have input data from multible inputs.  I need to take this
data and put them into an Access 2003 database where the data will be

This is basic stuff, but I'm getting a Run-Time Error 6 on the For statement
in the following sequence...
              n = mvarsrcLineItems.Count
              For i = n To 2 Step -1

I am a college student working on assignments.
I'm finding it difficult to get anything done because
intellisense is uncooperative. I just want to turn
it off so I can finish what I am doing here.

I am enumarating through the form.controls collection an using a select case
to determine the type of control
select case typename(c)
case "label"

I've managed to get set up with a data control that lets me view the
contents of a database file and step through it manually.
I need to be able to have my program do the stepping through the
database and "do things" with the contents. For example, If a user

Okay, here is the deal:
I keep all my Internet read/write functions in a class module.  I keep the
Init stuff in Class_initialize and the clean up in Class_Terminate.
Everything works fine.

Can someone point me in the right direction for the newbie discussion
folder?
Thanks,
mb

I would like to write a program that would detect all of the drivers my
Windows 98 is using, and back them up to a folder on my hdd. There are
times in the past when my system crashed and having the drivers backed
up would have been very useful. How would I research writing this ...

Hi ppl,
I'trying to create custom controll that has object as parametar. When I
declare it on controll as object then every time I use this controll on
creation I get error like "Object not set". Purpose of this parametar of

I am looking for a VB6 coding style checker which checks rules like:
- existence of comment blocks for methods, events, ...
- existence of error handlers (On Error Goto)
- existence of Option Explicit

I forgot about this one:))
On my custom controll I have textbox that is shipped with vb. When I use my
controll in code I have to use for example this line:
myTextBox.text = "sample"

On an app I'm finishing up I have "open text editor" on the menu,
currently just use windows notepad,  Dim Notepad As Variant
Notepad = Shell("notepad.exe" ,1), but it hit me that others use
different text editors. Is there a way to let the user set their own

I am using the commondialog to save a file. If I leave the dialog form
by clicking Cancel or close it by choosing "X" (or any other way) so
that a file name is blank, how can I trap this condition?
I want to be able to end the whole program if the filename is blank.

I need to extract some data from a custom form in Outlook, there are several
hundred of these so I don't want to do this by hand but I only need to do it
once so I am not too worried about elegance or efficiency.
So far I've worked out how to get the titles of each item in the ...

I want the users of my application to log on as administator temporaryly.
Pls see the code below.
strbarcode = strwarehouse & "-" & strdtreceived & "-"
Set btApp = CreateObject("Bartender.Application")