VB Forum / General / March 2006

Is there a add-in on the market for VB6 that implements common
refactorings that  are routinely found in the .net and java world?
Also, is there something (add-in wise) that approximates vb 2005's
auto-completion functionality (e.g. you type 'if 1=2 then' and it adds

My current VB 6 application uses pdf.ocx control to display pdf files.
I have some problems with this control :
1. It's not presented in versions later than 5.0, or I cannot find it.
2. Sometimes it crashes the application

Hi, there,
I am wondering if we can find all showable characters for a certain font
file so that we can display all eligible characers for it. For example, is
there a place to store the information that a~z are fine for Arial, however,

I am trying to get a registry value and display it within a Visual Basic
program.  I'm able to get the value, but can't get it to display in the form
automatically.
Does anyone know how to get a registry value to display within a visual

Can anyone help to write the visual basic application for FTP.
Regards
M. Subbaiah

is there any function similar to SQL's [LIKE] function in order to find a
filename?
i want to find a file name with a fixed pattern
eg. "somefilenameDDMMYYXXXXXX.txt"

Hello all, recently, one of our vb apps starting throwing a memory error when
exiting.  The error states "The memory could not be read.  Click on OK to
terminate the program".  This apps contains a Flex Grid Control, housing
anywhere from 1100 to 1400 records.  The app processes ...

I have this query to pull the data out from the system. And whenever I
run this, I get the "Syntax Error (Missing Operator)" Error displayed.
   Set conn = New ADODB.Connection
   FilePath = App.Path & "\Calls.mdb"

VB6 SP5:
It is my understanding that two UDTs can not be compared directly.
   If UDT1 <> UDT2 Then... ' error
So you would have to check each element individually to compare them.

 Iam now facing a problem.i want to make an exe to run automatically
if the system restarts.
It is a visual basic exe.It has got many forms in it. i need to do
programatically  the automatic running of exe.

I am using VB6-SP6 for an application with an Access DB as the backend. I
have a SSTab control on one of my forms with two tab pages on it. The only
controls with tabstops are those that are on the SSTab control. I have ten
controls on each tab page. When I tab through the ...

Beginning some VB6 Work. Remembering back to me Fortram days 30 years ago
where we had line numbering
Is there an option to turn on line numbering in VB6?
Thanks

i had to check all running server for shares with permission read for
everybody and change everybody to XYZALL.
I've written a proggie in VB6 with reads a serverlist and looks for
everybody with read permissions using srvcheck.exe and Rmtshare.exe to

I have a vendors ActiveX control, that I want to put into a class.  The main
reason for this, I have app that runs on 3 computers.  I want this control on
just one computer.  I need to handle errors and messages with the control.  
So, I was thinking the easiest way would be to ...

I have a textbox that I want to type a date (MM/DD/YY) into. The user wants
the slashes to appear when they start typing the date. I tried under
properties, data format, date, but that didn't give me the formatting I need.
Is there a way to do this?