VB Forum / General / November 2005

Nothing .... I don't find nothing :-(
I want add key inside context menu "Open With"
with my music player for mp3 file..... how do I do?
Thanks

Ok gang I am totally out of ideas and any input you have is greatly
appreciated.
I'm sending a URL to a webbrowser, searching the loaded page contents
for specific text, copy that entire pages contents to a file, and

I have a project that has been written in vb6. it calls FSO and
migrates data from one location to another. the problem im seeing is
that if i move the form while it is running. the textbox's and progress
bars stop updating. but the program continues to run. is there a way i

I hope the VB gurus among you can point me in the right direction.
I created an ActiveX control in Delphi. It is invisible at runtime.
Everything works fine except for this little detail: in compiled
application which uses the ocx check boxes loose focus rectangle (ie it

   I have a really strange problem... for a given ListView , report style:
I fill that ListView, but when I open another window over the window which
contains the ListView, it seams that the ListView isn't repainted, I mean
the items aren't visible, only if I click one by one.

I use a GetOpenFileName function and the common widows dialog to return the
path and name of a selected file.  However, I now want to be able to
retrieve just a folder path\name, even if there are no files in that folder.
Can anyone point me where I can get this function?  Thanks ...

I'm a total VB armature and can't find what I'm doing wrong.  I
have a program that
1) creates a URL
2) sends it to a web browser

any reference for do multi-language version??
I prefer use different files to keep the language text
(using VB 6.0)
thanks

Hello.  
Please, I need to know what factor can be in one computer that is not in
others, so that a printout sent to the Printer object does nothing at all.  I
mean, it does not even show in the printer queue.  

I am developing some components, one of which uses registered details forthe
other two. I have recently found that one of the components changes its
registry settings every time I build it which necessitates rebuilding the
other component which uses it each time. Is there some ...

 Where can i find documentation for Autocad commands which can be used in VB?
In autocad, developer help, everything is described abt VBA. In VB, these
are different syntax. Where can i find complete autocad documentation for use
in VB.

I found on VBnet (by Randy) a pretty interesting sample that tells you the
last system shut down date and time.
Now, my question and this is something I've been looking for a long time now.
Where is the info about last system boot date and time, or at least date.?

As the title states, I'm trying to find a book or resource to teach a
novice programmer how to program in VB.NET, but specifically geared
towards console applications.
The person learning has a background in PowerBasic for DOS and the

I have attachd a fragment of a VBScript below. I am retrieving the Security
Descriptor for a specific file. I know that the Security Descriptor has at
least the properties of owner.domain, owner.name and owner.sid. How do I find
out what other properties are available?????

I didnt understand why removeval is allways 0. where did I go wrong?
       Dim i As Integer
       For i = 0 To DataGrid1.Items.Count - 1
Dim removeval as integer