VB Forum / General / January 2006

Hi, how do i keep the focus on an item selected by the user, although i move
away from the ListView control?
eg. i want to delete a user. i select him/her from the ListView. then i move
away from the control and press edit. the user is no longer highlighted. how

Hi. My problem concerns vb .net 2005.
I want to use  IShellFolder interface for such functions as
ParseDisplayname. But how to parse a string - folder name (I mean, adding
terminating nullchar or smth.) to parsedisplay method? For exzample, if I

I wrote a scheduling application a few years ago.  This app use mscal.ocx,
V8.0.  This component is not redistribable, and I don't really want to get
into writing my own calendar control.   My question is,  How can I determine
if this compenont exists on a the system running the ...

I am trying to write an installation program and need to be able to locate
the path of a folder on the users computer (irregardless what drive it is on)
and assign the path to a variable. Could someone help me with the code to
find the path to a folder called Stored History?

Some one pleez tell me the actual difference between DLL and
EXE.....how they differ in working and in memory handling.....pleeez
explain with an example......

In an application I'm building I'm saving data in a random access file
using Put and Get. I collect data from a form, load it into a User
Defined Type variable and save it to the file with a Put. When I look
at the file with Notepad it looks fine but when I do a Get to retrieve

How to find the parent folder (full path) from a file ?
Robertico

I need some code (hopefully very efficient code) to reverse the order of a
specified number of bits from a Long or Integer.  It will always be either
the (low-order) 8 bits or 4 bits, though handling other sizes would be nice.
And if it assumes the other bits are all zero (or all ...

err.LastDllError
or
GetLastError
??

Hi, i am trying to use the Find method of the Recordset object. when doing
so, i am getting a run time error. i am trying to find the product category
selected by the user with the categoryID located in the Product table. can
anyone help.

Rgds
Kjell

what's the difference between Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition and
Professional Edition ?
thanks

I have an MDI form with a menu, and a bunch of MDI child forms. I would like
to create a separate menu on the MDI child form itself, but this does not
seem to be possible? When I create a second menu on the child with the menu
editor IDE and run the application, it simply ...

I've Google-grouped for this and I found what looks to be an answer, but it
was in Spanish which is not my native tongue or my forte'...
Can someone point me in the right direction to find out how to add the
textbox context menu items to the label control.  What I'm really looking ...

Hi. I'm a near beginner in VB6.
I just want to display random photographs taken from a folder (that's
already working) but some photographs were taken vertically. I'm using the
'stretch' attribute which - well - stretches these pictures inacceptably. I