VB Forum / General / October 2005

how can i change the dimensions of arrays at runtime?

Is there a implementation somewhere (in VB preferably) of tokenizing an
SQL string into constituent pieces?  I am not looking for complicated
SQL, just relatively simple stuff (select, update, delete, etc...)
Thanks.

Gentlemen,
My VB6 application works great on my PC.
Now I have to upload it to my website, together with the database.
How do I set the Data1.Database property?.

i have heard that .NETSockets extend WINSOCK functionality to VB.
My question is has anyone attempted this with success and if so, where
do i get the .NET Framework classes. It would then be possible to use
asynchronous I/O methods and many other things for higher performance.

I have a VB6 app that works on most machines. On a few Windows 2000
computers, launching the program produces a message from MS Office that "The
feature you are trying to use..." and it prompts for the CD. I can have the
user click cancel to eventually load the form but can't ...

A VB6 Form has a CommandButton with an image (i.e. no caption, the
Picture property of the CommandButton has been assigned a gif image).
Assume that when the Form loads, the image on the CommandButton is
named 'Img1.gif'.

I am trying to create and open a text file in VB6.
I have used the example in the Help:
Dim fso As New FileSystemObject, fil As File
Set fil = fso.CreateTextFile("c:\testfile.txt", True)

I'm planning on building a program that will simulate some processes in
biochemistry labs does anyone know about books, guides or other stuff which
can help in coding the algorithms ill need?
such as the ones ill need to simulate an electrophoresis for example and

What is the recommended way to handle the following issue?
I have a VB 6 app that is being localized.  It uses SQL Server 2000 as the
backend database.  It uses RDO as the data layer protocol, it's an old app!
My problem is with numbers.  Obviously, in different countries, ...

I am writing an ActiveX control that gets information from the serial
port and displays the results in a label.  I have declared the property
"value" that will hold this data.  This control is going to act as a
field of a form and needs to be able to have its value set using HTML

There is always much discussion on the inefficiency of vb string
concatenation.
The following is adapted from a recent post on this by Mike Williams.
I often concatenate strings in multiple locations through a project to build

Hello, all.  I'm using the GetFileVersionInfoSize API for pulling file
version # information.  It works for DLL and EXE files, but I have a special
requirement of getting the version # info from an InstallShield EXE.
If I right-click on an InstallShield EXE and go to properties ...

How do I make a gif/jpg image cover the entire area of a CommandButton?
By "entire", I mean not even a millimeter of the CommandButton should
reveal the desktop color?
Thanks,

Does anyone have any tips on how i would go about doing this i need to
create a webpage that will have a submit form that will write to a text
file on another computer whose ip address and filename i have access
to. i have been researching for a while and cannot come up with

Can any one tell me how can I get the current resolution of the display? I m
i wrote a code which resize all controls when resolution is changed at run
time or form is resized. But at design time I hard coded the Starting
Resolution at 800 X 600.