VB Forum / General / November 2005

I am new to VB, infact new to programming in a Windows environment. I
have been used to coding on Linux using Python, Java, PHP, etc.
I am writing macros for MS Excel.
First of all, is there any website which can give me *good* API

Greetings all,
Apologies if this is a FAQ here but I've searched google for over an
hour with no result.  I've just updated to a new machine, running Mac OS
X (Tiger) and installed Office X (= 2000 or 2001, not sure which).  I

I want my users to send emails from a Windows app that I am developing in
Visual Basic.NET 2003.  I found a good example of sending email to a SMTP
server using the SmtpMail class.  However, using this, it seems, that the
user must install IIS on their computer.  Isn't there a ...

I have a Class Module with Events.
How would I go about Invoking an Event from that Class Module from
another module.
i.e

I remeber reading somewhere that you should not add complex code in a
Class_Initialize event. I can't remember what the reason is but I am opening
a database connection on this event. Should I change it?
Alastair

my question is....
how to find all windows services  (  default by M$) when Xp/2000 is
installed?
is there a list of services to check with????

Is there anyway of extracting a list of the events for controls like
you can get a list of the properties;
eg:
Click

I've been looking for a simple utility to take advantage of my scrolling
third button but have not been able to find what I'm looking for. I'm
considering writing my own using VB6...
What I simply want to do is:

What I am trying to do is a very simple encrypt/decrypt program. I must
point out now that I am very new at this and this is my *first* working
program.
I load a file into a text box and have the content of the textbox in a

I have just started using Visual Basic.NET 2003 Standard ( previously
used Borland's CBuilder).
I find in VB.NET there is a "DataGrid" but not a "StringGrid" which I
found very useful in BCB.

Creating a small scheduling app and to save time thought Excel's add-in
function NetWorkDays could calculate the number of workdays involved, but
without creating an instance of Excel every time. Whilst a long shot, as it
is not designed to work this way, I did not expect the ...

I have developed a line chart control and want to let the user place a
comment on a chart point by double clicking on on the point and opening a
form where they can type in the comment.  I just can't work out how to do
this.  Any pointers would be welcome.

I have the function below.  it returns a "simpleresult" which I've also
included the definition of below.
I get a warning indicating that
Function 'CloseVantive' doesn't return a value on all code paths. A null

For those of you using MZ-Tools 3.0 for VB6, VB5 and VBA, as you probably
know, you needed to use regsvr32.exe to register the add-in dll. The new
builds starting from August 1, 2005 come with an installer at last, almost 5
years after version 1.0 <g>

Is there a way to turn off screen font smoothing for a particular control?
For example for a picturebox, such that all labels in the picturebox do not
use screen font smoothing. I have a graphics app I'm working on where the
smoothing corrupts the image, which needs to be certain ...