VB Forum / General / November 2005

How should I best prevent illegal characters (\, /, >, <, |, ", *) being
'pasted' into a textbox?
Thanks
FM

If I am using ADO to search for a value, like below where Job is a text
field and not the primary key and strSearch is a string value:
adoRS.Find "[Job] = '" & strSearch & "'"
... how do I identify in code whether it has found a match or not. In DAO

I been following VB6 to VB.NET issues pretty closely. Signed the
petition. Even managed to converse with some of the VB.NET developers.
It been several years since release of the first version of VB.NET and
based on my conversion with the VB.NET developer, they just don't seem

I know there is a way to determine if my app is running ("If
App.PrevInstance Then") but is there a way after deteminein g that it
is already running to switch to the first insatnace of the progra, AND
if it is minimized toretore it and give it focus? Also, would this be

Dear Groupies!
I am about to roll out my first (small vb application) and whilst I have
error checking in my code, I wonder if anyone could advise me what to
include in a manual error log for my clients to fill in if there is an

I am new to VB6, and I am in the process of converting my Access 2000
Apps to VB6.
In Access I had a field called txtCurrency whose Control Source was:
=[txtCurrencyData] & " " & [txtCurrencyDescription] & " " &

I'm constructing a form that converts Ordinary numbers (big and small) into
and from Standard Form (notation) - (for secondary school students in UK).
I have coded VB to calculate the 'A' part of a Standard Form number: 1<=A<10
sANumber = Round((Rnd() * 9) + 1,iDecimals -1)

I want to include a drive list combo box in my app. Im trying to create
it but its becoming too difficult and I dont have the complete
knowledge about what items to include in it. Im trying to create a
combo box exactly the same as you see in Common Dialog's ShowOpen. Its

I wish to obtain small icons from using ExtractAssociatedIcon. The
ExtractAssociatedIcon only returns the handle of 32x32 size icons,
whereas I want 16x16 sized ones.
The reason Im using ExtractAssociatedIcon and not ExtractIconEx is that

I want to write a Windows Service and interact with it from VB.NET.
From the calling program how can I get a reference to the Windows Service
and get access to its methods and properties?
Is it possible?

Is it documented somewhere how the various VB6 data types, dynamic arrays
especially,
are arranged when they are 'Put' into a binary file?
I'd like to read existing VB6 binaries into .NET.

It's all night that I search an example for run mp3 file
with MediaPlayer 10 SDK but I do not find it!
HELP !!!  It fails every attempt that I make.
(I can create a music player without form?)

I used to use a program called Loki Diary written in VB.
The website has been dead for a while and am trying to
locate the latest release which I think is 1.30 b27. Does
anyone have a copy? Also, the archive.org websiste

how to get the scanned images from a scanner usin VB6.
finding the scanner program`s default storage folder will vary for prod
to prod.it aint easy....
+  is there a scanner specially for passport size photos?

A Form has a TextBox, a ListView & 2 CommandButtons. Assume that the
Captions of the 2 CommandButtons are 'Yes' & 'No'. The ListView has 2
Columns.
Suppose I enter the text 'Computer' (without the quotes) in the TextBox