VB Forum / General / May 2006

I am working on a VB6 project. How can I run a macro (copyit) in an access
database (Test.mdb) located in the same folder as the VB project?
Thank you

My app is transmitting files using a winsock TCP connection.  I send the
file in chunks (waiting for confirmation of each send before sending the
next chunk to prevent overrunning the bandwidth).  Before I put a file on
the wire, as well as at the start of each chunk,  I check to ...

When I display the calendar in the date picker, the days go from Sun
through
Saturday, but in New Zealand, they are from Monday to Sunday. Is there
any way to configure the date picker so that the dropdown calendar will

I would like to create a left navigation using a tree view.  When I click on
an item in the tree it would open the appropriate form to the right with
correct data.  I was trying to use a MDI form but when I reference the sub in
the MDI form an error says I can't have more than ...

In VB6 I have successfully exported a table to Excel 2003.
In my production process, I create a new Excel spreadsheet every week.  I
need to include in the spreadsheet some Excel macros (VBA).  How do I export
this code?

Hai Friendz...
    I am doing my project using VB.. I want to show small animation in
my from. i have done the animation using flash... if i use the
shackwave tool. The animation running in the separate window. but i

I'm using Dir$ to loop through a folder and get file names.  If I come
across a .lnk (shortcut) file, I'd like to get the Target info for the
shortcut.  But I can't seem to find the right terms to use.  If anyone can
help, I'd appreciate it.

I have a vb script and when it runs it accesses a file in the same
directory as the script, How to I get the path to this directory so
that its not hardcoded into the script
Thanks in advance

May be I'm not in the right place, because it's a question about Visual
Studio 2005.
I have to migrate if I don't want to tell my customers that my company is
work in the stoneage, and all my code is cheap because I dont update.

Anyone know how to calculate the difference between 2 datetimes to fractions
of a seconds in VBA (actually some legacy ASP code)?
Obvious choice is DateDiff, trouble is it only returns a Long value to the
nearest second. I'm looking for the fractions of a second to 2 decimal ...

Do both programs use the same dictionary for spell checking?  Do all
Microsoft products use the same one?
How is the easiest way to access a dictionary for a program I am
writing?

Hi all, I am a vb programmer newbie. As my job need me to develop some
ActiveX control for programming purpose. Can anyone here give me some
information about implementing ActiveX Control. Thanks a million!!

In my program I click on a command button and the program delivers data back
in the form of a MSFlexGrid.  This grid has several fixed columns and
avarying number of rows.  I then get a Big Select on the first row.
Now when I click a further command button the first form closes ...

I know this seems like, and probably is an easy question, but how do I
recognise a newline character ("\n" in C/C++, Java & Perl) in VB?
I found that question in a earlier thread, but no answer. I am sure its
super simple, but I am trying to replace a '\n' in a string that has