VB Forum / General / December 2005

I have created a modified Meeting Request form which allows a user to add
additional information.  How can I use script to take values the user
specified in the custom fields and insert them into the Notes field found on
the original Meeting Request tab?  And can this occur as ...

is it possible to set a recordset order to an existing index via VBA?
something like rs.SetOrder("MyIndex").

VB app works fine on one PC.
Another PC reports Serial Port in use by another device.
Each PC has only one serial port.
How do I find who/what has the serial port?

I'm developing an application that needs to see files on the filesystem. It
works fine on 32 bit OSs, but doesn't work on XP 64bit or 2003 Server 64 bit.
When I do a directory listing of the System32 directory, a lot of the files
are missing. For example, the program ntbackup.exe ...

I am trying to write an install program that first runs a program
installation. I then need to create a directory within the directory the
first .exe program creates. Is it possible to write code in VB 6 to run the
first shell command and have the second event start only once the ...

I'm using microsoft's tabbed dialog control.
How can I lay out a generic tab and then, at run time, create new
"instances" of that tab.  Basically I want to be able to create
identical sets of tabs on-the-fly.

I am using ADO to connect to SQL 2k db.  We have converted it to merge
replication and now I am not getting identity field value after I use the
Update method.  For example:
rsPayInfo.AddNew

i deploy my old application in VB 2005 Standard. In Vb.Net 2003 i write :
Id=(Datagrid.Item(Datagrid1.CurrentRowIndex,0))
I take index of my data, how can i doing in VB 2005??
Thank's

sorry for the cross-posting...api doesn't appear to get alot of
traffic!!
i've written (in VB6) a windows shell replacement that converts a
standard windows machine into a 'thin client terminal' (ie it replaces

Hi. I have created a small application and then created a setup package for
it using the Package adn Deployment wizard and everytiem I install teh
application I get the error above. The thing is, if I slelct continue the
application still runs fine.

if i remember well, in MS basics prior to vb you could write to the NULL
device
i dont remember the exact syntax but it was something along the lines of:
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I'm developing a little tool which sends text to another aplicattion.
My project is like this:
- 2 Buttons ("Command1" & "Command2")
- 1 Textbox ("Text1")

Im new to programing, i like to start learning programing using visual
basic.net .I have many ebooks that i have gathered about many subjects. my
start project is to creat a program that included all my pdf, chm , ebooks
and would allow me to enter description and other stuff about ...

Hi. I have 2 forms frmX and frmY. frmY gets covers frmX at some interval of
time, except that the statusbar of frmX remains visible. I can cover the
whole of frmX with frmY but if I try to adjust frmY to show the statusbar on
X it all goes awry. It's driving me nuts.

I want to write a program that opens a file (not necessarily text -
maybe jpeg, maybe exe, etc), that reads in the data byte for byte and
writes each byte to a regular text file.
How can a read a file byte for byte?  This is the code I have now: