VB Forum / General / January 2006

This issue seems to be quite old but I have not yet found a clear
solution to the problem:
I have written a simple VB6 (SP5) application that opens and closes an
Excel (2002 SP3) file.

    I recently installed Visual Studio 6.0 with sp6 into Windows XP with sp2.  
When I compiled a recent Visual Basic program a new error develops:
“MISSIING: FILEMGMT 1.0 Type Library.  C:\WINNT\System32\filemgmt.dll”.  I
used the browser to add the file and recompile the program ...

Can somebody tell me what the proper nomenclature for array "rows" and
"fields" is? It seems the accepted term for "rows" is "elements". But, I
don't find consistent terminology for the "fields".  Please confirm the usage
of "elements" and enlighten me on "fields" (assuming ...

Hi, i have a list view that i have populated using a recordset. this has been
done using the set method and the subitem method.
but how do i transfer the items / fields within a listview into another
table using a recordset.

if iuse  findexecutabl3 with a 4 letter extension iget a no extention
found error. however I can double click the filename with the four
letter extension and all works?
What am I doing wrong?

Is there a way i can know the form instances loaded currently in the memory.
and i can unload a few of them(say 2 out 3 forms) when i press a button or do
some action.
Thanks

I have experience in ASP / VB 6. I would like to switchover to .net
Platform, which will be covenant to me vb.net or c# , then where i can
have the free tutorial for that

I am looking for a simple example/application that will explain the concept
of callback/background processing in VB6.
I have a VB6 application that loads data into multiple forms and arrays. The
current program loads all the data at once and user must wait for all data to

I have been using the function below to read data from ini files - I
think I found it on msdn somewhere.
It seems to have problems when the section of the ini file contains
blank spaces in string:-

It you have used MDIForms you should know that if you have a menu on
the parent form and one on the child form, when the child form is
loaded it replases the menu on the parent form with its own.
I am wanting to make it do that with not only the menu but also the

I have application ans users have reported bug that application sometimes
crushes when they move from my application (user minimize my application) to
Outlook Express. They have few applications opened.
Note: In my applications are used third party design controls.

Am using messagebox vbyes, vbno buttons. Want the vbyes to rerun the
Form Load event. Have even tried to write a GoTo statement but
unsuccessful. Is there not a method such as refresh or redraw in VB6.
Guess I could write a loop that will keep running until no is selcted

Hi
I am trying to write a search text routine, but I was hoping to do it from
one form to another i.e a Find (crtl F) type form. I have a text box on one
form (Main) and another form (Search) with a text box to enter the test and a

I am trying to print data from a listview from example code from here.  The
problem I am having is that I need a printer object to print and I am trying
to do this in VBA (no printer object).  This is not VBA for Office but
rather VBA for a third party app.  Is there a way using ...

is there a charting tool which i can use to display a bar or a line graph
for some data from the database.
Thanks