VB Forum / General / January 2006

I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this, but thought I'd ask it anyway.  
When you don't code an error handler, VB performs the default action of
displaying the error and killing the application.  Is there any way to
change that default action?  Can I point it to a public ...

Having an odd issue with a set of controls that worked fine earlier tonight
and am stumped on such a simple function.
I'm resizing a textbox control based on the length of the contents. Earlier
there was no problem, but now the TextWidth function is returning about 300

A programmer I work with spent 4 hours producing a 14 day estimate for a
project. In the event the project took 15 days and his manager was annoyed
that he had estimated incorrectly.
Is there any research into the ratio between time taken to produce an

I was having a look at vb.net 2005 today and noticed it has edit and
continue. One of the biggest complaints here is no longer :-)

Given just the EXE, no source code, is it possible to determine what project
references were used to build the .exe?

I would like to create a base class that inherits List(of X) where X
would be determined by the class inheriting the base.
ie
Public MustInherit Class ListBase : Inherits List(Of ?)

Hey guys, I need some help here.
I'm trying to read the value of a word document and send it through POST to
a PHP html page.
The problem is the POST is basically a text string, and I've been trying to

I am using visual basic express edition 2005 and I can't save it as an
exe
file Plzz help Me!!

This is an odd piece of behavior.  Can anyone explain it?  I'm guessing it
has something to do with a null pointer behind the scenes.
* * * * * * * *
Private Sub Test()

Hi, all. Is there an API that tells me what is the system decimal point
separator.
I need this for multinational calculations in a VB6 application.

Can anybody tell what is the internal representation in VB (nr. of bytes,
int/double etc.) of a Date variable, and what is the significance (e.g. 'Nr.
of miliseconds since ...').
I have to convert such a date which was serialized somehow in VB and stored

I have a program
c:\project1.exe
I am trying to pass a value to text1 on the from with
c:\project1.exe -text1 value

Does anyine know of a way to count the number of files in any given path
w/o recursively looping a Dir() through the path.
I'd like to show a progress bar in a search utility I am coding. To do so
properly, I need to know the number of files to search prior to actually

I have an Oracle Stored Proc with following specs
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
TYPE tblROW IS VARRAY(2) OF VARCHAR2(4000);
TYPE tblDATA IS VARRAY(2) OF tblREQROW;

I have a small program that is used for database updates. The program runs
and uses it's own timer to mine the database for changes. As well, it has a
few control buttons to perform the scan at will.
Currently, the program runs on a computer with a user logged in and the