VB Forum / General / November 2005

I would like a program that I could embed in an email that will cause the
email to delete itself after a certain amount of time. Either that or turn
the text to gibberish... is there a VB person out there that could create
such a thing that would work in an email?

I'm writing a program to do subliminal messenging.  I have a
high-performance timer object that enables a label, waits about 25ms,
then disables it.  It's still visible to the human eye though, which
means it's still above 100ms.  I tried putting form.refresh in there,

I am looking for the magic formula to resize all columns width (each column
has different width) proportionally with the ListView width,
and accomodating extra space for the vertical scrolling bar.
Jack

I have a project about 90% done in VB 5.0
Im thinking about converting it to VB6.0
Is it worth the trouble? What advantages could I ger using 6.0 instead of
5.0??

Is there any simple way to get access to comm ports 16 and higher?

I need to detect the parallel port address of a machine, using VB.
Please help. Thanks in advance.
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Thanks & Regards,

How can I find in which folder the apllication is installed?
It is generally installed in X:\Program File\folder_name.
(X: is system drive)
I am trying to trap this folder for a follwing reason:

Dera Dr. GUI, MVPs and others
Features of VB.Net 2005 makes it so easy to access  mdb tables directly from
the form's controls. This  makes me wonder how and if I should restrict the
communication to and from a database tables  to a separate data tier which

Hi
What I want to do is to be able to pass a text box name from anywhere and
highlight the text. I thought this would work, but it does not.
HighlightText txtTextBox.Name

Okay, I know it's simple, but I'm having a brain fart. I'm using VB6 on XP-SP2. I want to set the Windows Global Variable of %MYDOCDIR% to a string variable in my app, yet I cannot seem to remember how to refer to the Global Variable in my code. Thanks in advance.
- The Merg

Hi. I'm wondering if it's possible to detect, find out, what browsers are
installed on your system.
Thanks

I have a main ASPX page with controls that I add to a PlaceHolder.  One of
the functions coded into the control is to save some fields to a SQL table.  
I have the code built onto the control and not the main page, but when I
click the Save button the control disappears from the ...

I am facing a  problem in using SetWindowPos() . I am handling a
localization project. For this i need to resize and reposition the
dialog controls. I am calling GetWindowRect () to get the control
dimensions and after changing them i am trying to call SetWindowPos()

Hello does somebody know how can I obtain the IP address from a mail
message using Outlook XP?  (by code, of course)  
Thank you very much

Can anyone explain what Text1.SelStart and Text1.SelLength are
supposed to do? Peferably with an example and explanation???