VB Forum / General / April 2006

TTS badly hangs Windows when encounters character &HB7.
Is that known problem?
Is that up to the developer to allow only readable characters?
Your thoughts please,

VB6 - SP5
Using code "borrowed" from Randy Birch's site to show a file open dialog. Is
there a flag -- or combination of flags -- to force the dialog to default to the
"Details" view instead of just the "List" view (filenames only, no dates or

I have a copy of VB 5.0 and would like to get it upgraded to at least the
.net platform. Can anyone tell me if this is possible, and what would I need
to get this older verison upgraded.
TIA,

I have a problem with a sub that uses SendKeys to put numeric
characters into the keyboard buffer that appear in textboxes or cells
in a spreadsheet.  This works fine in every case I have encountered so
far except with the Region Settings set to Belgium and the Caps Lock is

I am trying to add some code into an application that will rename the
computer without requiring the computer to be restarted for the name change
to take effect. The following code has been suggested to me to do this, but
every time I try to run this code, I get a run-time error ...

In a Delphi NG we were talking about including DLLs in an Exe
This does it, also includes local data files, OCXes ( I've not sussed
the mechanism for those)
- but it definitely includes MSVBVM50.DLL and the other ones (Delphi)

    i 'm a begginner of VB6, i have a problem now.
    i want to get the stored procedure name from the "CREATE
PROCEDURE"  SQL statement which had exist, how could i do it???
   Thanks very much!!

Hi at all,
I've to print an access report by a vb application. I use this code:
[CODE]
Application.OpenCurrentDatabase dbCPath, False

A while ago I found some code posted in the newsgroups by what I believe was
a MVPS, wich showed how you can position a textbox over a Treeview node to
make a custom labeledit. I've spent quite some time trying to find it but
with no success. Can anyone help me find it, or help ...

I hope I can explain the question OK :-)
On a Form is a Command Button. The Code is:
Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim Form2 As New Form1

Say you want to do this
web is a webbrowser control
web.navigate2("http://google.com")
'wait till  web finish downloading

shdocvw.oca shdocvw.dll
Both is available. Am I the one still using vb6 here? It seems that
it'll be pretty cumbersome to migrate all of my codes there.

If I launch an .OCX file from a web page using the <OBJECT> tag, how can
I code the .OCX to retrieve any parameters listed in the <OBJECT> tag?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Greg

I'm trying to read a large binary file(> 750mb).
When I try to read the entire file into a byte array, the read fails
"out of memory"
 dim myba() as byte

I'm a novice Visual Basic programmer and I need to connect to an
application's database that uses SQL Adaptive Server driver. Below is an
example of code I use to connect to a MS SQLExpress database:
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