VB Forum / General / November 2005

how can i end a task by its exe name, for example if i send
"notepad.exe" as parameter it will close notepad.
thanks,
AB

I'm trying to save some old information in old dbf files.  The files
have different information but they have one common field, customerid.
Is there a way I can join these two files, say give me this data from
this file, these fields from another file, and match up customerid?

I am trying to create a VB application front end that reads an Access
MDB database. It must allow the user to query buy typing in the House
Number, Street Name and City and interactively filter through the
database and display the record. The House Numbers are stored as a

This was posted earlier in October by another user using dotNet.  But I am
running into a similar situation but I am using VB6.
I have need to make my Windows Application be able to 1) login and
authenticate to an FTP site 2) upload a (series of ) files to that site

Windows 2000/Win98SE and up support the concept of side-by-side
execution, where you can dump all the DLLs into the application
directory and the application will just use them from there.  This means
that I don't have to register DLLs in windows/system32 folder, thus

A VB6 Form has a ComboBox with 2 options - Outlook Express & MS-Outlook
& a CommandButton. What I want to do is if a user selects Outlook
Express from the ComboBox & then clicks the CommandButton, Outlook
Express should open & the user should be directly taken to the

Does anyone have a tool(s) that can allow me to Convert all of the stuff that
I worked on in Access and push to VB2K5?
I have VB scripts that Link and query numerous thisng and to Re-Write them
again would be painstaking.

I am trying to make an app that will be able to: call functions with return
values from an OCS or dll. The trick is that I will NOT know the name of the
functions until runtime. At runtime I will be able to get the name of the
function. I will know what the return values will be ...

hi to all !! i just want to ask what / where site can i get the list of
the meaning of all api function ?? i'm been searching it in the net but
no site satisfied my needs .. hope someone will give me a good answer
.. thnx in advance ..

   My client app. must comunicate with a server app somewhere with an IP.
Because the network policy keep blocked a
range of ports, the both applications cannot comunicate. So I want to add a
piece of code to announce the user that have to take a contact with the

I have added a combo Box to the Datagrid and I was wondering if there was a
way of increasing the width of the combobox dropdown area to expand to fit
the length of the longest value (by calculation or by me setting the value).
I know I can change the width of the combobox but I ...

I have a scheduled job that executes a DTS package. The job is scheduled
to run at midnight everyday. This process is working fine. We want users
to be able to run this process at real time. What it means that we are
providing an option in the front-end tool saying "run this process ...

It's there an easy way to determine if one or more objects in a collection
has changed, without enumerating the collection and checking each object
individually?  Is this a case for call backs?
Thanks for the help.

I have a userform which I designed on a 19" screen and it is fine - it
takes up nearly all the screen height.
When I put it on my 15" laptop screen, the form does not fit - I can not
get to the bottom of the form where the control buttons are.

Hi, I have a pointer to a string which is in form of a long retuned
from StrPtr() function (not a variable to which the string has been
assigned),, and I need to assign another string to the original string
being pointed to. Does anybody know how I can do this. Please