VB Forum / General / March 2006

My code is as following in VB6:
Set fsAcc = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
and I get the following error:
Automation error

I'm about to start building a desktop application using a database as
backend. I was wondering what the consensus is these days regarding
VB.NET vs java.
I'll be using Visual Studio 2005 pro if I go along the VB.NET route.

In my application I have an interface class which is implemented in a half
dozen other classes.  Occasionally (and every time, at the moment) when I
start the application in the IDE, it does the JIT compile and then highlights
one declaration in the Interface class (for a routine ...

Can anyone give me some clue of how to make a form behave as the vb
inputbox: In vb you can gather the text of an input box simply by
writing tmpString = inputbox() I would like to do the same but with a
custom form containing a combo box for instance.

I have a masked edit control formatted as
  >??-#####
It works like it's supposed to, however, I would like to display a message
if someone, for instance, tries to type a number in the first or second

Hi - I need to combine two ideas that currently work for me separately:
(1) open a file in a browser; and (2) halt execution of the vb6 program
until a shelled-out command finishes.  In other words, I want my vb6
program to wait until the user dismisses the browser. Currently I:

I have a temporary recordset which is based on two recordsets.  When I load
this temp. recordset into a datagrid the id's are our iof order i.e. 5, 3, 1
etc.  Is there any way I can order the recordset by the id column once it is
in memory?

I use a lot of Yes/No/Cancel message boxes in my application and I'd like
them to be quiet. i.e no dings, dongs or other assorted noises.
Other than developing my own message boxes is there anyway do this with
code?

I changed computer, but it has the same Windows XP SP2 as I used before.
But now, in new computer in visual basic, the files and directories names
follows 8.1 format,
.

I have a control which has items in it.
If I click an item, it is selected.
If I Ctrl-click an item, multiple items are selected just like Windows
Explorer.

I have a form with a collection  of ten text boxes. The  first box has an
index of zero, and the Tab index of the box is 2.  To give that text box
focus what do I use in place of the variable N.  Is it 0 or 2?
txtScore(N).setfocus

The issue:
I have created a program that copies files from one server to a HD
folder. I throw up a progress bar, based on percentage of files to be
copied, and sit back.  If I don't touch anything it seems to go OK.  If

I took over the responsibility of completing a VB6 database project
that is close to complete now. The program compiles fine and everything
seems to be working all right to specifications.
I need some input regarding creating an installer for this project.

Basically, the title explains it.
I want to be able to read the first n bytes (say, 1024 bytes) of any
file (text or binary) off the internet in my vb.net application. I
specifically do not want to download the whole file (which in most

I'm opening an image file (says .jpg) as binary in VB6. The code works
fine in XP Professional system (Have tested it out in 5 XP Professional
machines). But then when we run the application in XP Home machine, it
fails to generate same output (value in var1) as what it does in XP