VB Forum / General / May 2006

I was surprised to see that the last call to MsgBox in the sample code
below will always take place, regardless of whether the user chose 'yes'
or 'no'. I used to think that /Unload Me/ would release the resources
associated with the 'Me' form and also interrupt the execution.

I am trying to combine the date of a dtpicker control with the time of a
separate dtpicker control to create an entry that is for a datetime field in
an SQL Database.
objTemp.Starting = DTPicker1(0).Value + FormatDateTime(DTPicker1(1).Value,

Something kept catching the corner my eye in break mode. Something was
happening to the screen somewhere but what? Then I woked it out:
It only happens in one VB project (VB6 SP6) and not in any others.
If in break mode, and the mouse is over an enabled toolbar icon that has a

Currently I am doing the following:
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- Create an Access table as follows:

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I'm using the Rich Text Box control because I want to allow the user to use
Bold font, Italics, underlines etc.  However, I would like to prevent the
user from changing the font and font size.  At the moment the user an Paste
in some text by doing Ctrl+V which can have a mixture ...

is it possible to delete a certain file in folder using vb?
and how will i know that the certain file that im going to delete is
currently opened or not.
hope you can help me guys.

I have one special question:
I want to zip some files programmatically. There is not really time to
do this from scratch (and i don't want do, unless it is super easy).
So I am serarching for a lib which is free and I can use for zipping

I have a VB form with many controls on it, mainly checkboxes, is there a
single place I could check to see if a user has clicked one of these
checkboxes rather than set a flag in the Change event for all of them

Iam Suzzane i was trying to calculate working hrs between startdate and
enddate excluding weekends and public holidays, If startdate and
enddate are same then my function will use startime and endtime entered
by the user, but somehow it dosent seem to work. Any help is greatly

I am trying to create program shortcuts using VB6. I can do this using either
the WMI or the VB6stkit.dll...
BUT:
I cannot seem to find a way to create this shortcut with a specific .ICO

           If I run a VB application, how can I find which
corresponding  line is running in VB code when the application is in
running mode and not in break mode?
Thanks.

I need to report on account creation that occurs in some time slots.  The
time of account creation in Active Directory is recorded in GMT and I need
to know the account creation time as current time.  Therefore, I need to
know the difference between current time and GMT.  Because ...

This is a follow-on from the byte-swapping thread.
So, I'm reading 55MB data files directly into an array, wonderfully
quickly, using this code:
Private Data() As Integer

I was wondering if anyone could help.  I am trying to retrieve metadata
from a series of word documents.  I wish to tag each document's meta
data with custom properties (Name, Value, Type).
I am able to retireve summary info. such as "Author", but when I try to