VB Forum / General / November 2005

I have a VB app intended to be run from the command line but the DOS prompt
returns immediately.  I intend to make it part of a .bat or .cmd file
eventually, but want to be sure that the .bat/.cmd file doesn't continue
until my app is done.

It is possible to trap the ALT+S key in the form_keydown event when the
caption for the command button is "Save".
But could not trap ALT+S key in form_keydown event when the caption for the
command button is "&Save".

How do I print a pdf file (or indeed any file) from a vb6 app.
Example, I have a list of files which I wish to print automatically as a
batch process (they are a batch of invoices in .pdf format). I'll just use
the default printer.

In a VB app, I have a function to get current user's login name for security
purpose. But now we're going to get this app to Citrix.
Is there a way in VB to grab the user's information from user's profile on
Citrix? How?

I am not a hardcore VB programmer so hopefully there are some experts out
there who can help.
I have a VB6 form with a webbrowser control on it. When the form opens, the
control is loaded with an ASP login web page. The user then logs in to the

I have a ListView that displays 3 images which have been rendered using
an ImageList. The Form also has a Slider control & a CommandButton. The
Slider value ranges from 0 to 2 (3 levels). Now I want something like
this:

My VB6 application uses a ListView which has 4 images. The images have
been populated in the ListView using an ImageList. How do I loop
through the 4 images in the ListView so that when the Form loads, I can
show a MsgBox to the user with the image label i.e. the text

A quick and dirty solution to the Line Too Long problem
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 06:21:24 -0600, "Larry Serflaten"
<serflaten@usinternet.com> wrote:

im using VS 6.0 and installed using custom (checked all)\
when i try to code(double click) or open anything it crashs and close VB
and microsoft error box comes up saying send report or not
i really need help

I downloaded the MSDE release A (MSDE2000A.exe) from below mentioned link.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=413744d1-a0bc-479f-bafa
-e4b278eb9147&displaylang=en
Extracted the MSDE2000A.exe to  local directory (C:\MSDERelA).
Through Command Prompt executed the ...

Does the function UCase take a long time to do ? (If I do it in a loop)
Thanks.

I'm curious about the differeng behavior of the "new" keyword when dealing
with value versus object types. If I'm correct, when I do:
dim x as integer
There's no need for "new" to be called since this "value" type is all set to

In the IDE, when I display the Project References list for a project, the
list contains some obsolete and incorrect references (old projects of mine).
The DLL's refered to are long gone or have had their descriptions changed.
How can I cleanup the list so that it refers to ...

I want to update my VB execute programs on my customer side (VB 6.0).
Customer side has windows 2000 proffesional installed + Service pack 4.
When I run some of my programs I get a message :
ADODB.Connection ... provider cannot be found.. It may not be properly

I would like to know if there are some famous application sold on
market, which were developed under VB or VB.net ?
if yes, which ones ?
I'm asking that because i would like to know if VB is a good development