VB Forum / General / February 2006

          Using VB 6.0 and I am running a program that must assign a
specific printer to each form running. There are four timed forms
connecting to an Access database looking for updated records, when the
record is updated it will print, but it needs to print at a certain

Hi,
I am trying to validate the following date 32/02/05, which is an invalid
date in the format dd/mm/yy but when I do a IsDate(dDate) it classes it as a
valid date. Then my application converted into the format dd/mm/yyyy it

I've got a form with a Combobox. I want that when user is typing in it
the combo drops its list. I try to use the SendKeys "{F4}" and if I put
it in the GotFocus event it works but if I insert it in the KeyDown code
it don't work rightly ... can everyone help me?

Is there a fairly straightforward way to move a label in sync with the
scroll button on a vscrollbar?
Here's my situation:
I am using a vscrollbar to scroll through an array. I populate the Max

How can I use a timer control in a .dll that has no form to draw it on?
-Louie

I have a Visual Basic executable which errors out
with a run-time error '5': Invalid procedure call or argument. I have
error handling in every procedure.  When debugging the error doesn't
occur.  I click on a command button which calls a form and it also runs

I need some help for translating C (Borland C) variables type in to VB6
variable type.
Thanks,
Yves..

I am trying Innosetup for the first time.
Now I need a sample of complete script
for a simple application with the following files :
standard vb runtime files--

I have created a form with a keypreview. When enter is hit it triggers
a command1_click.  I keep getting an annoying  beep when it is hit
I traced it back to the windows default beep which I can shut off in
the control panel but that deactivates it for all programs.  i want to

Pls advise on how to call existing Excel VBA from VB.
I referred to 'How to create and call an Excel Macro Programmatically from VB'
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q194611),
and wrote codes like below, but it returns the message, cannot find sub

I am trying to understand how vb opens and closes excel workbooks. In
the code below, if excel is not running at the time I run the program,
everything works perfectly - data are added to excel, the workbook
created is saved and remains open (and visible) when the program is

Trying to download Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Control Creation Edition.  What
URL should I use?

   I am getting a wiered problem.I have created a module which has
some public function.The function returns a boolean True/False if a
certain condition satisfies.When the function returns True it should
terminate at that point and go back to the main. But when I am running

I need register my Database (MDB) to ODBC DSN Database by VB programm
Where I can found example!
Thanks!
Stas.

Likely a simple question, I've searched, read, etc.  Still lost.
I simply want to accept user input to a (simple, type 1) combobox and
add it to the list.
I tried looking for a CR or CRLF, but empirically, the interface