VB Forum / General / February 2006

I have a very simple program that changes the picture on my desktop eachtime
it's run and the system re-started.
Windows has the options to "Centre", "Tile" or "Stretch" a picture.  How do
I incorporate 1, 2 or 3 ("Centre", "Tile" or "Stretch") into my program to

Hy,
i want to now where can I find a driver for serial comunication in Visal
Basic.NET??
I cry, conect BAR code scaner to my copmuter , to RS232 serial port, and

From my program I load a web page using the ShellExecute statement:
ShellExecute 0, vbNullString, "http://www.somewhere", vbNullString,
vbNullString, vbNormalFocus
The page load perfectly fine.

I am trying to parse an INI file in Excel(VBA). Plese advise on the
best possiable way to do this. Thank you
Jim

I'm trying to add shortcut keystrokes to two menu entries with the following
code.
Private Sub Form_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)
Dim ShiftDown, AltDown, CtrlDown

Is there a simple/standard way to display a negative number (integer in
this case) with a trailing minus sign? I've looked in help on
formatting, but I don't see a way to do it.
I'm actually on .NET Compact Framework, but this seemed more like a VB

I have a small VB-Access program which is causing me a problem. I am
executing an INSERT INTO SQL statement using a UNION Query as a datasource,
but I am getting the following error message:
[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Too few parameters. Expected 3.

Hi all    ,
Pls can you help me with the following please?
I have a CR report with few formular fields defined in the repot. A
run time I want to pass data for each row and populate the repor

I am in the middle of creating a data warehouse and wanted to add some
FK constraints.
However, I've found that when creating them via the 'relationships'
tab, something strange occurs!

I'm doing this in my code
private someArray(10) as single       'Declared private in my class
and I have a function call
Call SomeFunction(someArray)

mdac
will i execute my prog in machine XP sp2 ihave a messge method '~' of
object '~' failed'
i think that i have a problem with a Mdac version

I have a program running that calls to an ActiveX.exe.  The activex exe has
a timer event in it that kicks off a process that reads from a queue and
does some processing, it also has a method that adds an item to the queue
from a client app.  It looks like this:

Hi gurus!
Its probably an often repeated question on here, but my VB6 applcation when
running does not have a button on the taskbar like every other application.
And if minimised minimises to a button ABOVE the taskbar.

I am new to this forum and also new to .net, I want to try and learn
.net in my spare time, can anyone recommend somewhere to do this
online?
Many Thanks

On this computer only (I have tried on my daughter's computer as well
as asked a couple of friends) when I run a class that accesses a msgbox
"Hello World" call, they all get the message box, I don't.  I get it in
the Application Log.