VB Forum / General / March 2006

I'm having a problem trying to resolve a string into a date using the
DateSerial function.
What I have is two things:
sDateFormat As String

Good afternoon techies,
I am new to this forum; greetings.  I am 40 years old today.  Yuk
And so why am I working?
My issue is that i have a string that is coming from a field.

I'm having a problem with a windows program that I've written.  When looping
through a recordest and sending email to our email list, I have a CANCEL
button that is supposed to change a variable and after the email that is
being sent at the time, if that variable is changed them ...

Hello all, first off, I just want to say thank you for your time and
consideration.
I accidentally posted this to a dotnet newsgroup, so if the double-post
bothers anyone, please accept my sincere apology.

Hai,
Thanx in advance those who help me,
I have a problem in creating and including the License agreement dialog
in Installshield 10.0

We've got an old old database system in place that uses old dos format
printing, as such we had a bunch of problems getting anything sensible as
output on any printer built after 1901! (ok slight exageration but you get
the point). So i went away and wrote a VB program that takes ...

I have an application thart uses DAO 3.6 in VB6.
On the test machine, on which I used a standard setup, I get the error
The activeX Cmoponent can't be created.
Why?

I have a 'browse' button on a field that pops up a listbox containing
permissible codes and descriptions for the field.  The codes can be 1-10
chars long. I populate the listbox in a loop using
Listbox.AddItem MyCode & vbTab & MyDesc

Can someone please point me to on-line source(s) that explain what
Regsvr32 actually does and what is achieved by registering DLLs?
TIA, Eugene

Has someone written a reliable routine to read multiple textfiles
from a named folder and write each into one text file?
It would be nice to have a routine in VB that does this.
=== this is a sample of code from one of my co-workers

I have a array of Picture objects with a click event applied. The event
works fine, but triggering it is a problem. It tends to take a random
number of clicks (less than 15) to get the event to activate. Anybody
come across this before and what can I do?

I have 2 forms. I want to declare a variable (or constant) so that it is
available to the procedures on both forms. Do I have to declare the variable
(or constant) in each forms general section, or form load -   or is there
some way to declare it so that the variable or constant ...

I have to launch different office documents (excel, word...) and want to
figure out the file type based on the file name.  I know how to use string
handling functions to strip of the file type.  However, is there a better
way to do this?

I'm getting mad here trying to think of a way to remove strange
characters from a date string.
This is the code I use, but it will only remove one of the two strange
characters at the end.

Hi, all. I'm a verteran in VB6, The company where I work for, will soon
switch to Visual Studio.NET...(latest version)...
Besides language style, structure and syntax, which of the three stooges,
VB.NET or C++.NET or C# you think will do more for any company,