VB Forum / General / November 2005

I have written a perl script which is of .pl extension
Now i want to create an .exe file from it.
So, i want to call that perl script and execute it in VB to get a .exe
file.

I've got some code in the resize event.
However, this errors when the user minimises the form:
"A form can't be resized when minimised or maximised"
What property should I interrogate to see if the form is minimised or

Every now and then when I open an XML file, I'll see various
miscallaneous characters before the first less-than bracket.  Like today
I've seen ascii 254 and 255, yesterday I saw .  What are these
characters?  Are they garbage?  Can I ignore them?  The reason I am

I want a control similar to the DirListBox control but with different
options, not the directories which are read-only & cannot be altered.
When the "Internet Options" menu item is selected from the "Tools" menu
in IE, under the "General" tab, there is a listbox under "History". I

I have an array of string. When I Val the value of the array and do
substraction, the result of the substraction is incorrect.
Dim MyPairsArray() As String
Val(MyPairsArray(1)) - Val(MyPairsArray(2))

I have a client-server application written in VB5 running fine since
years on Win98, WinNT e Win2000 systems.
Client and server are ActiveX components accessed by Remote Automation.
Now I have tried to install the application on a WinXP-SP2 PC, but I get

Have a VB6 project with a RES file and an image in it with ID 101.
When I call the following line of code it returns an image but NOT the one
that I have put in my application's resource file!
hBitmap = LoadImageBynum(App.hInstance, 101, IMAGE_BITMAP, 16, 16, 0)

Is there an installable version of MSMQ available, and is there a silent
install mode available?
Thanks,

I am trying to create a csv file with this code
Sub main()
Open "c:\work\test.csv" For Output As 1
For i = 1 To 10

Is there any API for moving a folder (including all its subfolders and
files, just like manually drag a folder to a new location) without having to
move all its contents before moving itself?
Thanks for any help.

I am trying to do what I thought would be simple to do ie reading a section
from my app.config file.  I would like to have custom sections with custom
attributes and be able to read/write them.
<configSections>

When a user is required to enter a filepath into a textbox, what is the
acceptable Maxlength to place on the number of chars allowed in that
textbox. I see some people use 260 MaxLength...any significant reason for
that? And, what would be an acceptable MaxLength if the user had to ...

I have created an App that exports Data from Crystal to individual Word
Documents.
My problem now, is that I want to set the Word Documents to Read Only
i.e No users will be able to change the document

Using VB6 on Win 98 to Win XP.
Trying to find a good spinbutton that can replace the VScrollbar that I am
using now. The problems with the VScrollbar are that you can't set the
background colour and that it has this strange flashing strip.