VB Forum / General / March 2006

One of my VB6 applications has started giving a Runtime Error 429
message. I don't know what changed or why this happened, it's been
running on this machine for 2 years.
According to what I find on the web this could be due to an .ocx file

How can you click on a menu, virtually?(programatically speaking)
an API call?
VB6, please...

I have code that manages a dynamic array.  When I delete the last item, I
set it to empty with erase(MyArray).  In C this would create a null pointer.
How do I test this array to see if it's empty?  If empty(MyArray) does not
work.

Ok I feel like an idiot, not just for using VB6(it's a class), but also
because I'm not sure how to clear a list in VB6.  The list has a
variable amount of objects in it and I need to clear the whole thing
with one click.  Any ideas?

I have two virtually identical PCs, each running XP with all current updates.
Both are running identical copies of a VB6 executable, compiled with Visual
Studio Enterprise Edition.  The application reads an excel file with 9
columns and displays it in a datagrid bound to a ADO ...

I made a EXE with a form wiyhin a ms ado dc object. But how can I
compile this so
the foreign system (without VB) has enough system files. Ik can copy
the msadodc.ocx file,

Hi, I am trying to make a function call with multiple parameters to a
dll, but I always get a type mismatch error. Strangely the error does
not happen if I pass a single parameter:
The two functions in my dll are:

I've downloaded the free trial verison of Visual Basic.NET 2005.
Is there a manual anywhere?(free, of course)
I'm trying to switch from VB-Classic to VB.NET?
I'm totally new on this. I don't live in the U.S., so all the bookstores

If I set my mdi child form visible=false,  I can not set it back to visible
or do a show on it. Can someone tell me what  I'm doing wrong.
Thanks Mark

I wonder if anyone knows if the Access database table grid exists as a
component so I can use it in a VB6 application? If so where can I get it?
Best regards

I have two VB apps I have written. App A is a graphical interface (forms,
etc.) and APP B is more of a batch process. App B is started via a Shell
command from App A. Can someone kind of step me through how I would write
code so App B can communicate a status (% complete, etc) to ...

I would like to zip files (all sub-folders and files inside a folder,
but not including that folder).
I have read several articles on the Internet, teaching me using .dll
like Info-zip, Zlib, C..., PKZip, etc.

I'm closing applications from my app.
These are the declarations.
Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" _
              Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hWnd As Long, _

Hi, I am having 120GB hardisk (14 Drives) in my PC with 1GB RAM, I used
recurssion method to search the files in all the drives which takes
nearly 15-20 minutes!! I use..
CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") and I compiled with fast

I have ONE server with a SQL Server 2000 DB and the following applications
running on it.  Application 1 loads data from a TCP/IP stream into the
database.  Application 2 prepares an output file from the data.  Applications
3 and 4 moves the files about according to parameters in ...