VB Forum / General / December 2005

In .net the Location dialog box finds the folder containing the required
files and brings back the path . How can I implement the same in VB 6 ?
Thank you in advance
Gol Yass

I'm looking for a tool for debugging.  I came across it a while ago.  It
numbers all the lines in Vb6.  On the error handler it jumps to the line
number or tells you which line number has the error on a compiled
application.  Is there anything like that?

At times I want to print from a VB program to a printer (such as Adobe PDF)
that prints to a file. How do I set the default file name? It always comes up
with my program name and ".pdf" as the file name.
Also, if the printer driver that I select in the Print dialog box is not the

My company recently aquired a product written in VB6.0 which neads
maintnance.
We have licences for VS 2003 and I am in the process if migrating the code
to .net but in the meantime I need to patch and compile the current VB 6.0

Is there a way to monitor the number of bytes uploaded or downloaded in
a VB6 webbrowser control, maybe using the Progress and ProgressMax?
TIA,
Mike

Hi, I hope this question isn't too muddled . I have been wondering whether
or not it is good design to just drop components, such as buttons,checkboxes
etc, directly onto a form.  Does anyone use picture boxes as containers?
The reason for asking is that I want to have better form ...

I wanted to declare my own data type in the VB Class Module and my brief
research in the internet shows that when declaring user defined data type,
there are 2 ways
public enum xxxx

     In conjunction with my software I developed small exe file, being
called sometimes by my main application.
That file is distributed together with all installation files and copied to
program's folder.

I'm trying to connect a Win98SE (with no service packs) to a WinXP-Pro/SP2
(with SPs).  Neither sees the other and I wonder if the following info
sparks an idea in anyone as to what I'm missing.  Below are the
conditions/symptoms of these two machines.  Any suggestions about how ...

I do not have this problem, when closing application normally.
However, when I use TaskManager to close it, the following line of code
generates error:
       rtn = RegDeleteValue(phkResult, "hKey")

I am new in VB. When working in the vbp file, I can see that we have the
option to include reference and component.
I am not sure what is the difference between "reference" and "component".
Can someone help me out ?

How can I  create a .dll file that would be used to generate formatted .html
files after querying a database.
Thanks for your help

I need to create a VB exe file which can result a value to the caller.
Is it possible?
For example
result = convert.exe

how can i (with code) find out what is the list-separator on the user's
computer

i am using vb6 sp5  to access an MSaccess 2003 database with DAO
in this access database (tables) there are text fields
in de access tables i give a text field a default value (with MSaccess)
say i give the default value = "General" (in MSaccess)