VB Forum / General / March 2006

I'm developing a serial app with VB and the MSComm control, and found a
rather annoying issue: in doing stress tests on my app I generate several
communication errors to see how my app will handle.  Right now, when I
detect a framing error (comEventFrame/1004) or a parity error

I want to know how can I call another form that I have created?
Ex:
My 1ste form is my log in form.
Now after you have logged in, I want to call the main form.

I have been trying to cobble together code for navigating through a dataset
in an ASP.Net web project. I was successful in doing Next, Previous, etc. My
latest requirement is to be able to go to a record based on a criteria. For
instance a stock number, which I was able to ...

hi...
i'm new to ATL programming..
actually i have a application build in VC++ SDK and can i convert that
application into ActiveX dll...

I support a lot of Acer machines at work and I'm looking for a way to
obtain the machine's serial number from within a VB app. The number
seems to be stored in the hardware - it displays in the BIOS. I've seen
machines before that were capable of doing this, but I can't find

how can i change the background color of a column
in a listview.
thanks

Have got a program that opens up a text file in word, program is used to get
a readable printout from an output file from a really old database system.
uses the following -
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How can I show a form in front of MediaPlayer without letting it quit
fullscreen mode?
Is there any solution?
Thanks a lot

I have tried all of Word's options to make a watermark visible while
editing. What would be the VBA code to turn on the watermark such that I can
edit around it?
Ed

good day pros,
i would like to make a sample program that will act as a report service...
if someone sends a request via email the system will receive the mail and
sends back a respond with an attached pdf report file from a report server

When walking a Windows share drive to extract the first 255 bytes from
files more than 255 bytes in size using the VB6 code
Type Record
   Magic(255) As Byte

Is it is possible to get the currency formatted by regional settings without
the currency symbol.
Please help
Thanks in advance

I want to use the facilities of MS-Word in my VB6 program. How can I
activate MS-Word controls? Where are them? I couldn't find them in project's
components list.
Thank you

I have been reading some of the "vb6 or vb.net" topics on this forum with
great interest. I am not sure if this is something that should be posted
here, or in .net forum, but lets give it a shot -
A broad evaluation of our existing vb6 code assets indicates that the

I have a problem with Visual Basic 6.
In my Project references there is an entry for "Active Toolbar" that
points to "C\Windows\System32\ActBar.ocx.
This file does not exist.  I don't know where it came from either, and