VB Forum / General / November 2005

Karl - you responded to me in word.vba.general about finding every instance
of Word.  The thread is http://tinyurl.com/be58j.
I set up FindPart5 as a VB6 project, but am having great difficulty making
it work, due to the fact that I am a complete novice.  The form launches and

I have an old vb6 application that I would like to convert to .net.
It had a number (ie A LOT) of for loops that start at 1 instead of 0.
Is there a program that can help me automate the processs of rewring
them to make them VB.Net compatibile?

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to create Continuous Forms in VB 2005?
I was able to do them in Access, but it seems that I cannot figure it out in
VB2K5.
any help is appreciated.

I've got a bunch of truly fractional expressions, i.e. "5/16" that are
Strings (be it from a database lookup or a user interface object such as a
listbox).  
What is the simplest way of converting a fractional string like "5/16" to a

Someone knows any component I can use (free or no) to extract the tiff files
from a multitiff file?
Must be a component, so I can use a full error handling.
Thx for advance!

I am trying to get access to A COM object where the ProgId is longer
than the max of 39 characters. Is there a way around this? I don't have
access to change the name. Can I access it using the GUID instead?
Thanks

Hello, friends,
I am very curious about what behind DoEvents? It call WINAPI Sleep() to
wait, or it temporarily releases CPU for other threads (and how?), or
something else?

How can I do a conditional assignment in VB6, like the following one that can
be done in C/C++?
  j = (i < 0) ? (-i) : (i)
This essentially does an Abs(i), but I want the same ability to do this type

I have a application developed in VB6.0 that incorporates some MSForms
(originally created in Excel) - they appear as ActiveX Designers in
Project Explorer. I have suddenly noticed that if I shutdown or logoff
my Windows session (both XP and win2K) the application will not close. I

We are getting warning popups while running .vbs scripts in Windows XP  
because of the Virus protection software. Can you please advise, if signing
the .vsb scripts will get rid of the warning popups. If so, what signing tool
can we use ??

Can any one tell me how can i get the discussions in this gruop to my
outlook express? Is it possible at all ? and if yes how can I do that?
thnx in advance.

Hi friends
I am working on VB6 application.  I am getting runtime error 7(out o
Memory) when I tried to click open the Button.
Following are the info I can give for reference.

I looked around and didn't really find what I was looking for, so
hopefully someone here can help.
What I want to do is push a button a VB app which will post data to a
webpage and show me that webpage in a web browser. In other words, I

This may be too general of a question, but...
What I'd like to do is, using VB6, create a programming interface for a
proprietary programming language that I use.  I'd like an interface very
similar to VB's interface, the key items being:

I am trying to read an excel file (one sheet only) with about 70 lines
and 6 columns of data using OLE. My problem is that I cannot read all
the 70 lines, it stops reading around the line 50 or so. Is anybody
have a clue? Is there missing something in my code? I thought the file