VB Forum / General / November 2005

We have a typical client/server app, VB6 apps connecting to MSDE database
via IP number.
There is no mapping in Windows that maps the server drive(s) to the
workstation that runs the VB6 app.

How do I get VB6 to let me select an icon for an executable other than
the one the system uses for the default? I want something elae and
will probably want to cook up one of my own before its all over.

How do I filter the fileopen dialog to only show programs (.exe)?  I tried
this:
cdlOne.Filter = "Programs (*.exe) | *.exe"
Thanks

I have to perform a series of calculations and store the results for further
processing, depending on the user's input.
The calculations are done through a loop. Now i want to store the results :
[ int, int, long] X 100,000 items =  (2+2+4) X 100,000 bytes = 781 Mbytes

I was real excited to finally get the final version of VS2005 and after a
couple of days with it I am concerned about the peformance of my projects
when compiled and run as executables. A simple VB.NET program with one form
and a command button will eat up as much as 12,000 K and ...

I am trying to list all the computers in a workgroup/LAN using VB6. I have
searched MSDN and Miscrosoft site (and googled too). I think part of the
problem in not getting the right info is not knowing exactly what to search
for. Is there API or intrinsic function for gettting the ...

I have a weird problem and I'm not sure where to start looking. I have a
customer that installed a small application that our company built and they
now have a problem with there printer. The weird part is that this computer
is an emission test machine running Windows XP. It has ...

What do the properties ClipBehavior and ClipControls mean and do?  I had
this explained to me once upon a time, but I've slept since then.

Is there a text box in VB which puts the commas automatically when we start
typing numbers ?
Thanks and Regards,
Peri

How do I get the contents of a DLL or reference library to get the
proper declaration lines of subs and functions?
Explaination
I want to do this is to give aliases to procedures with long names

Is that posible to export data from an external application's datagrid?
I found an application very useful, it shows information within a datagrid.
(I only have the application, not source code). Is there a way I can get the
data from the datagrid? I know that normally, I should not ...

I have a form (fullscreen-size) with a picturebox which displays an image.
What I will do now is fade-out the form to a blackscreen, change the picture
in
the box and afterwards fade-in the form to the normal view.

One of the menu items in a VB6 text editor gives users the option to
open the recent files that has been used. Assume that before closing
the text editor, a user had worked with, say, 'File1.html',
'File2.html' & 'File3.html'. After he exits the text editor & opens it

OK, i am getting crazy here.
Can anybody tell me why the heck i get an overflow error here :
Dim try As Long
try = ( 300 * 300)

I have a very simple question but bit confusing
First of all i changed my reginal settings to swedish.
Then i run the simple code below
dim a as String