VB Forum / General / April 2006

My question: "What is the correct connection object to use in VS 2005 for a
text connection?" will need some background.  I am placing code at the end
showing how I am reading data from a text file (comma delimited) into a
dataset.  My problem is that the connection object I have ...

Does anyone know of a reg hack or something that can cause VB 6 to start up
with the "Recent" tab selected instead of the "New" tab?  Did the great
minds at MS design think that every time we start up VB that we'd be doing a
brand new project?

      I am debugging a visual basic application,  there is an error
occured. But I cannot find out which line occured the error. How can I
let VB stop at the line where the error occured? And I can debug that
line?

First off, let me make it clear I'm just a developer like you guys are.
I'm not looking for flames, just creative feedback.
Let me ask some questions...
What do you think about Linux?

I am trying to use a textbox to display an  incoming chat message at the
bottom of any messages already received.
When the user receives a new line of text it is handled with:
    txtOutput.text =  txtOutput.text & vbcrlf & newmsg

I am trying to copy files from a folder on a Novel machine, the folder is in
the UMC format (i cannot map a network drive for some business reasons). Upon
copying, it fires an IOException saying that the file does not exist.
Any idea how can I do it? (the user copying is the Novel ...

I am trying to call the servlet with VB6.
I can do this using xmldom for HTTP Get.
However, I don't know how can I do this
for the HTTP Post method? I have to go with

I have a form with various controls.
among them is a frame (fraCondition)
containing 8 option buttons.(opCond)
I'm setting an opCond(0) at design time and loading in a setup sub thusly

have developed a keylogger  but prob lies in running it in my frens
PC. Anyone knows how to link it to a site and have the exe copied to
his system32 folder and run it once.
Any other stealth method will work

(or.. "Too much Tails and not enough Heads")
I'm running into a very strange problem with random numbers and long
numbers. To demonstrate the problem, I've created a simple test.
Consider that a series of coins are to be "flipped" all at once. The

In a masked edit box I have set a format for the way the data has to be
typed. How do I check whether it contains some data or not?

            I got a form with several SSTab. I got a command button
which is named "cmdsaveshipment".  I try to switch to "cmdsaveshipment"
in properties windows. But the
focus is not on the "cmdsaveshipment" command button. How to find out

When I get a result in a text box from a calculation that should show, 123.00
the result will always show 123
How do I format text boxes to always show 2 decimal places?
Thanking you in advance.

"Long-time-no-see" VB programmer here, so please bear with me. I have
just started reading the introductory MSDN documentation on using VB6.
The tutorial "The Firstapp Sample Application" directs the user to
right-click the toolbox panel and choose "Components..." in order to add

I have made this database with a form that has a picture on it and when
u click the picture it opens the windows defult veiwer, now i was
wondering how to control what program it used to veiw the image say a
program like ACDSee 8, I am thinking about buying this program and need