VB Forum / General / April 2006

How can I get Central Standard Time with no daylight saving ?
For example, even though it is already 2:45 pm now, the time I want to get
is 1:45 pm, because it is the CST without the daylight saving.
Thanks.

I'm trying to populate a combo box based on the records in a given table.
When I run this code, I get the following Run-Time error:  "Run-time error
'3265':  Item cannot be found in the collection corresponding to the
requested name or cardinal."

I'd like to download a web page and loop through the anchors (or links
if that works better) collection, and return the innerTEXT or outerTEXT
of the anchor (or link) I'm looking for.
In the past I used the webbrowser control to download web pages, but I'm

I'm using two checkboxes as buttons (graphical style) that can be pressed
and unpressed. They're in a frame, along with some other controls.
When a control outside of the frame has the focus, and the user clicks the
checkbox/button, it only gets the focus, but the pressed/unpressed ...

I have a vb6 developed app with a bunch of dlls and 3rd party controls.
 When I deploy them to certain PCs, the application just hangs around
in the task manager for a millisecond and then just disappears.  I've
placed MsgBox statements right on the first line of the app, but it ...

I have made an election software which uses DAO to access databases.
Now we have over a 100 computers in our lab and its nearly impossible
to go to every computer and install the election software in VB
manually on all computers. My softwares uses an Access Database to keep

I sent a post out with the the following original text.  I do not think I
sent out
enought information, so I am going to try once more.
Original:

When I click Compile on my project, VB appears to freeze. This only
happens on specific vbp (project) files.
Please help
Shayaan

customer needs to design and install a Visual Basic application (including
of system libraries) on the server. Application will be start up from
Workstation. Workstation has no Visual Basic support.
Is it realizable?

Can anyone suggest a fool-proof way to execute a procedure *reliably*
at a certain time of day?
I have an app that runs 24/7. There are several activities that need
to be done each day at a specified time. To handle this, I have a

I am modifying an existing VB6 application that has worked fine up until the
csv file export format changed to satisfy an upgrade requirement of the
importing application.  My VB application converts the csv file into a
compatible format that is sent to the upgraded application's ...

In another thread Ken Halter said:
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I have a couple of projects here that start when the OS starts but they "sit
and spin" until the 'System Idle Process' reaches (a user configurable) 97%

Can someone please point me in the right direction.
My DLL component will be used by various applications. User preferences will
be set from within each application. How do I get ahold of the application's
name for placement in the registry?

If I have a vb6 form and I have Visual Studio 2005 Pro with vb.net is
there any way to import the vb.frm and vb.frx files?
THe wizard that comes with VS2005 breaks due to the vb.vbp file having
Oracle oledb data source links and I do not need the Oracle stuff as I

Using VB6, any ideas how I would call a function whose name is strored in a
variable.  eg:
Private Sub Main
   Dim funcName as String