VB Forum / General / January 2006

Hi Friends !
I have joined another company which uses Oracle
at back end. I  use SQL Server and only used oracle for test purposes and in
one of the big conversion projects.

VBScript has an Eval fucntion that allows the use of string exprsssions in
commands. For example:
 strCMD = Eval("objItem." & strProperty1)
Is there a similar method in Visual Basic 6? I looked at the ScriptControl

We created an ActiveX textbox - it seems to display the data correctly when
the text box is bound to fields by an ADO object, but when user updates text
and then issues update on ADO, the new data is not saved, nor can you delete
records.  If we changed all the fields back to ...

I'm working on a small application for a family member that basically
lets users input data through forms, stores that in an access database
and then I want the ability to export a report that can be printed or
transferred through E-mail. I've already setup the form in VB.NET and

I have the following sub main
********************************
Private Sub Main()
Dim adoInitiateRS As Recordset

I have a TextBox which validates entires.  If the user tries to move focus
away from the TextBox without entering a number, a MessageBox appears.  
However, if the user clicks the close button (the little X in the top corner
of the screen) without entering any text, the MessageBox ...

From engineer:
We are NOT trying to take the reciprocal of a matrix.  
Rather we would like to solve a
system of simultaneous linear equations by using an INVERSE matrix.  So, our

Hello, friends,
We need a contol, something like a spread sheet, to display all the search
results for our users. The results may contain not only text, but also
pictures (most of them are 32x32 .jpg or can be changed to that size). It

I have reset the toolbars for VB6 and now I find that when right clicking in
Project Explorer i do not have the usual menu items
ie. Add - ,Remove Form - etc
Is there a trick with registering a dll or something else.

I need to change the back colour of certain lines (from one side to the
other, even when there is no text) on a richtextbox ie lines 1,2,3 to dark
blue and then lines 4 onwards are white.
I want to read in some text from a file and put header text in the blue area

These are pretty funny.
History of C
http://dotnetmasters.com/HistoryOfCFamily.htm
History of BASIC

<nostalgia>Wow it's been FOREVER since i've visited this forum.  I miss it.
Looks like it's still hoppin!</nostalgia>
So i'm using Oracle 9i and have written a VB6 application to watch a
directory for changes and send the files changed to a particular column in

I get an error while use an UDT variable in my project can someone help
me with this?
Compiler error:
Only user-defined types defined in public object modules can be coerced

I have an Application that could run more than once.
(at the moment I allow 6 times per pc)
the application uses several databases and stores
intermediate data in tables with a "unique" name

I need to get the name of the most recently created file in a particular
folder, from within Visual Basic. I will be glad if anyone of you can help me
with this.
Many Thanks,