VB Forum / General / December 2005

Does anyone know if it's possible to have more colors when setting the
background than the limited palette of 48 colors?
Thanks a lot for any ideas!
Dan

Hi - Does anyone know where a list of the error codes returned by GDI+ can by
found. MSDN does not have any info (that I can discern). Thanks.

I feel daft asking this, but how do you make a label in a Form display
and behave as a hyperlink? I simply cannot find how to.
tia,
arno

How do i generate random numbers.
I got tickets with ticket number from 1 to 5000 and if i want to get 50
numbers randomly from the tickets then what should i do.
Advanced thanks for those who are giving me the solution.

In the function below which is called below, I would presume that since I
set the ActiveConnection to Nothing and closed the database that there would
be no active connections for my application in my SQL Server Database
(Management ==>Locks/Objects==>"Asset" Database==>Process ...

Whats the best way of emulating a "CTRL + ALT + (char)" kind of behaviour in
a textbox? An example is the shortcut key textbox on a shortcuts properties
window.
Regards

Hi, last n00b question for you all.
I have exported my .exe and everything runs great.
After I close it though i still see the .exe running in the processes
window.

I am using the WebBrowser control in a VB6 application. Now suppose I
navigate to a website & start typing some text in a TextArea. While
typing, I go to some other application & then come back to the browser.
Under such circumstances what happens is though the focus was on the

I have developed an application in VB6 and now i want to add handwriting
capabilities to it that is to say i want to use a stylus pen and write stuff
on vb form save it and display it back in the same form later.
Is there a way to do it

Is it possible to get a popupmenu in a modal form?
John

I read via MSDN when a project uses an OCX, there is a bit of overhead
involved in terms of resources.  What I could not find out is the amount of
overhead used with multiple controls.
Which would use more overhead:  An OCX with two controls, or using two

Hi all is it possible to get vb6 from typeing come command in  command
line (run) dialog box
from
If any one know anything  about this please help me

I have a VB6 app that loads a combo box with a list of Printers on the local
computer:
  cboPrinters.Clear
  For i = 0 To Printers.Count - 1

I am very new to VB and would like to have your expert comments on how
can we save import specification for some text file to be imported in
MS access through TransferText function in VB.Actually , I have with me
some code in VB which uses TransferText to import from a text file and

I recently made a small app in the vb98 directory of Visual Studio.
I then moves the files out to another folder.
The problem is the program is looking for its .txt files in the vb98
directory, not in its new directory.