VB Forum / General / March 2006

Is it possible to get the full path to a folder from VB?
Like C:\Name of Person Logged In\My Music\Folder Name. or even better
Like C:\Name of Person Logged In\My Music\Folder Name\*.wma
where in VB the user enters the Folder Name in a text box/inputbox or enters

When a class has a public Property is it possible to set a default value for
this property in such a way that that default property will be visible when
you are going to set that property?
This is the nice thing about not using properties, but a function with

hello everyone....can u please help me on how can i use ado control or
data control to my application. plese send me a procedure to do it..

How can I determine which drive is being referenced by
\Device\HarddiskVolume14?

I have an executable that I plan on deploying to several other
machines.
That executable establishes an ADODB connection with Access
Some of these pc's do not have Mircosoft Access, will registering a few

i wnat to add one variable to registry. because i want that variable to
set as global and once i set that variable and close my application and
again i run my application so i can get that variable back as i set as
close time.

  Can you please let me know the code in VB.Net for how to use  
GetSystemMetrics(SM_REMOTESESSION) to know if the application is running on
Terminal Server or on local machine.
Thanks

I am new to this group and need some help.
I have tried to locate the source code for the book in WRO, Wiley and
APress websites but had no luck.
If anyone has the source code, kindly mail it to me at

I have a simple keyboard hook here.  It executes my callback function
upon any key press, and doesn't pass it on to the next hook.
Essentially it locks the keyboad until you unhook it.  It simply
outputs i (the number of times the callback has been executed).

Hello, I have a program like MSN Instant Messenger.
When a requestes come in a display a pop-up from the taskbar to inform
you a user has logged in for example.
The problem I have is that it takes control on your PC ( gets focus ).

Right after I reboot, I do a
chkdsk o: /f
And am informed that there are open handles using the drive.
Is there a way for me to find out what apps are accessing the drive?

Hello, friends,
Our VB component is passed a stream of binary data, stored in
Dim mData() As Byte
We need to separate those data and assign them into each variables. We know

I am trying to read the with and height of the printer so I can prepair a
graphic of that size.
However, no matter what I do, the printer object allways returns 11x8 1/8,
with the width at 11 and the height at 8 1/2, weather I set the orientation

I have an array as mentioned above.  It is not a static array so cannot set
@ design time how big the array will be.  How can I do this with a
multidimensional array?  I have tried myarray(i, 0 to 2) but that doesn't
work because it errors saying that it must be a constant.  I ...

I have developed an app in VB6.0.  I used the packaging and deployment wizard
to create the installation.  It installs fine on XP machines.  However, when
I have tried to install it on Win2K machines, right when it is about to
complete installation, it says something about the ...