VB Forum / General / March 2006

What am I missing here? (Code pasted below)
1) Set objInstaller = CreateObject("WindowsInstaller.Installer")
2) Version = objInstaller.Version
3) Wscript.Echo typename(Version)

I have a VB app that needs to export data via ADO to a pre-defined Excel
2003 spreadsheet (has captions/headers to describe the data). The
spreadsheet has pre-defined cells for where the data goes. I also need it to
be flexible to allow the user to modify the excel spreadsheet ...

Hi, Can any one give me a simple way of understanding the use of IADs
interface in vb.net?
I don't know the .net equivalent of the following code.
   Set objIADsContainer = GetObject("WinNT://servername")

Can someone explain (simply!) the difference between compiling to
P-Code, and to Native code? (Apart from doubling the exe file size!)
Thanks
Tym

I need to print a report made up of two pages of header and two pages
of technical attachments. The attachments are included in the main
report's detail and each technical attachment calls back 3 sub
reports. When there are only few technical attachments everything

From one form ,not an mdi form,, From a child form, code to check wthether
some other child forms are open.
Please send the code.
With Regards,

I'm developing a program in which I want to provide the user with a
way to easily select various files and/or folders for further
processing. Ideally, I would like to use a selection dialog like the
one that's in the Windows XP Pro Backup Utility (where each

Is it possible to add an item to a list box so the last entered item would
be the first on the list or at a position of my choice, for example:
List1.AddItem "1"
List1.AddItem "2"

'please Refrance (Microsoft Speech Object Library 5.1
Private SP As SpVoice
Public Sub ReadText(TXT As String)
If TXT = "" Then Exit Sub

I have a vb5 program that uses an Access 2000 database. What do I have to do
to vb5, if I upgrade the database to Access 2003?

Me.Width
Me.Top
when referring to the form?
Is it Long or Integer?

Mike Sutton gave me a link to this code, but I would like to extend its
search power but I am not sure how to do this can you help please.
Option Explicit
Private Declare Function SHGetSpecialFolderPath Lib "Shell32.dll" Alias _

Hi, i am using a SQL statement in order to generate a report of the products
that have sold. I can do this with no problem. But how do i amend the SQL
statement to show the products that have been sold in the day, week or month.
Basically, i want the report to show the products ...

Is that a proper code?
If oFax = 1 And Hex(dwParam1) = &H20 Then
dwParam1 is a data type Long
I worry about that Hex(dwParam1), is that numerical value or a string value?

We have VB 5.0. How can we do XML read/writes to the local hard drive
without having to code it directly line by line? Ie: Under VS2005.NET they
have a bunch of objects that do everything automatically for you. Is there
any such thing that can be dropped into VB 5, or is it best ...