VB Forum / General / December 2005

i wants to connect my access database kept at local m/c
"C:\\softwares\vb\employee.mdb" with my vb 6.0 application, i also created
DSN as emp , so if u can please give the connectivity code to connect with
this database

I tried to reference a DLL... Project/References and got "Could not Access
Registry" error. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Visual Studio 6 and
service packs 5 and 6 and I keep getting this error. Anyone know how I can
fix this problem?

Do you ever encounter the problem about program down when loading a picture
to picturebox?
( whatever use byte to picturebox directly or loadpicture by file )
Can I check the file is correct ( that file will not cause program down)

As the new guy, I've inherited this project that reads data from a
binary file using tons of statements that we all love:
   Open txtFile.Text For Binary Access Read As FileNum
   ThisPieceOfStrData = Space(6)

Hi, i am creating a retail system in VB6. i am fairly new to the language,
but i have a pretty good idea of the system i want to create.
a big part of my system is based on adding, editing and deleting thingsuch
as products, suppliers, users.

Is it possible to obtain the MAC address of a network adapter with VB6 (or
in general) if the assigned network connection is disabled?
Best regards.

                         Until now, my application saves options and
preferences inside ini file located in Windows root folder.
I have special reasons not to use Windows registry for it.
I need your input how sure that method is.

         I am using TabStrip (bundled with vbasic 5).
To select the tab user has to just click (left mouse click) on wanted tab.
Is it possible to select tab with the mouse right click?
How to do that?

Anyone know where I can get a reasonably priced version of VB 6.0?
Is it always wrapped into the Visual studio package?
I bought and tried Net, don't like it, would rather upgrade from my VB 5.0
and will most likely sell the visual studio.net version I bought. iforget if

Hi, I want my application to open a text file in notepad.
What's the easiest way to do that?
/Tommy

I have the capture from http stream which is chunked and gzipped. I
need code to de-chunk it (i.e. decode it), and then gunzip it--just
like a web browser woudl do. Could someone please help me, or point me
in the right direction?

frmWebBrowser.WebBrowser1.Navigate "http://www.someurl.com"
The above code works perfectly when it is put in the Click event
function of a menu item but the same code generates an error saying
"Method 'Navigate' of object 'IWebBrowser2' failed" when it is put in

i don't know if it's possible or not. Can we have a text box with different
font styles in the same textbox like the first line says some thing in "BOLD"
and the next lie is in regular text.
Thanks

I want to develop an application which will lock the desktop and only my
application will run. when i shut down my application windows will also shut
down.
In other word I want the user to restrict to use only my application and he

Hello,
i have to write a program that searches specific strings (requirements) in
different Word Documents and returns the page(s) where the string was found.
When all documents have been searched, i have to create a table in Excel