VB Forum / General / January 2006

   My colleagues and I had a discussion on the naming conventions within
VB/VBA.  One my colleague is adamant about the use of one character prefix,
citing the ease of use and less memory usage.  Both of which I have to say I
disagree, very much so.  For one, three character ...

Hi again,
I was reading through the responses regarding VB vs C# and it was mentioned
somewhere that C# is "a non-proprietary and standardized language". Is that
to say that C# code runs on MAC and other platforms? What exactly was meant

I wrote a VB6 software for Buy and sell of used and new items... The
software has
been running for years and the users like it. But a new law regulating Buy
And Sell stores in my area requires that store owners (must) have "live web

I am using an ADO Datacontrol and am trying to create a record set
With Me.Adodc1
    .ConnectionString = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data
Source=" & _

I'm not sure if there is a more appropriare NG than this one for this type
of question, if there is please point me to it.
In VB6 i used the internet transfer control to get files from the web
delivered to my program. I cannot for the life of me see how to do this in

I am trying to seach for a specific .INI file AIG.INI and then within
that .ini file find the path that the program C:\D:
Connections(connections is thename of the program)  is installed on.
This is to verify the file location incase it was installed on a

how can I manage the API getjob function with visual basic..

Is it possible to suspend a programm if the default printer is busy?
Thank's for answering
Daniel

I have had microsoft antispyware installed on my machine for several months
and find it very good however it is now showing that it is out of date as at
31st December 2005 and will not run. I have tried numerous times to download
the edition off the microsoft security download ...

Hi, how do i populate a combo box using a recordset to get 2 fields from a
table, in my example  (ID, NAME). How do i make the selection such that when
the user clicks "1  John", the ID (1) is selected only.
at present i am only using the ID, which make this part of the system

Is Visual Basic 2005 and vb.net two seperate applications (purchases).  I am
a Access 2002 developer and use visual basic 6.0 to code Access.  It sounds
like Visual Basic 2005 will let me keep by vb 6.0 language but a more robust
front end.  Will Visual Basic 2005 also allow me ...

I am getting an error "Invalid property value" in the code below on the line
that starts with "NewLine.SubItems(1)".  The object named LV is a ListView
object.  I have the exact same code (line for line) a little further down in
this function and it does not give me any errors.  ...

I'd like to sort through a text file containing (email) subject headers
and email addresses. At the end I would like to know the unique email
addresses that were found, and the frequency of each address. Assuming
that I can already read the file line by line, and identify the ...

Is it possible to declare global (public) variable conditionally using
If...Then statement?

My VB6 app needs to be run as a scheduled task to process some data. When run
in this way, the program runs without focus, so the Form_Activate event never
fires. Since I need the form to be visible whilst it is processing data, the
Form_Load must complete and I need ...