VB Forum / General / May 2006

Hi. Of late I've been wondering the about the best ways to reduce the
development time for my apps (database related). I've come across some free
utilities on the net that do things such as create classes, stored
procedures from my database tables, and create the DB calls to execute ...

How can I make the selected text of a RichTextBox bold?
I read the MSDN help and it said that I should write:
RichTextBox1.SelectionFont.Bold= True
but there is no "SelectionFont" property or similar thing in my RTB

Who has used the Visual basic editor in Microsoft Word 2003?

I am a VB6 beginner.
How can I get the FileSize of a file that is shown in my FileLIstBox? Is
there a way to show the file size in the same FileListBox?
Thank you

I am updating an application  that ran on Windows 98/ME..., but I can't
seem to get the transfer of packets to work in a new version running on
XP and 2000, so I am wondering if anyone else has encountered problems
with the WaitForMultipleObjects function when upgrading to 2000/XP.

I am using stored procedures to add, update, etc.  Some of my code
(specifically for loading and updating and record navigation) is listed
below.  It seems to do the job, at least when I test it.  
My question is, is this the proper way to access a Sql Server database?  If

I am fooling around with a card game and I need to redraw a players hand.  I
would rather not redraw the whole screen, but would rather erase/claer the
portion of the scrren that is reserved for the particular player.  I am using
the cards.dll for WIN/XP, and the statements to ...

I have an ActiveX control that I wish to dynamically instantiate at
runtime in my VB6 project and I would also like to respond to events
that control raises. Presently I have this *which works*:
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In the example below, the 'convert.ToDecimal' removes the last 5. I'd
like to get the number, in tact, moved to the decimal veriable.  Any
help would be greatly appreciated.
       Dim dcml As Decimal

after I have compiled & packaged my new VB program, I am ready to deploy the
package on CD to distribute.
I have not been able to set the CD to AUTORUN when the program is installed
on someone's computer.  I am running VB6, Learning Edition.

I need to restrict some text in a text box to only digits and commas.
'123' is OK
'123,12345' Is OK
'334599992' is OK

Hi can someone tell me if the My.Computer.Network.IsAvailable will show true
if dial up is connected?
thank you,
Ed

I feel like I'm being dense, but I can't figure out how to send Ctrl-Z
(as in holding down the Control key while pressing the "Z" key) over a
serial connection established with MSCOMM.
TIA,

Is there any way to make something like the following (which doesn't work)
work?
You can't declare ParamArray with ByRef but I thought the default for vb6
parameters to a function was by ref, but it doesn't seem to work.

VB6 and DAO 3.51:
I have the following code:
       Set tdLinkedTable = dbTEMPD.CreateTableDef("VinLinkedTable")
       tdLinkedTable.Connect = ";DATABASE=" & strDBAddr_p & ";PWD=" &