VB Forum / General / July 2006

       Hope you can help me. This is a trick one - at least I think
so. I
have 2 strings. I have to calculate the "score" of the strings. Score
is determined by matching patterns of letters within the strings.

I have a form that has a bunch of controls on it. Based on the selection
criteria I want to make some changes to a bunch of the controls, to use a
simple example I have three controls named
Q1, Q2 and Q3

Somebody has claimed to be able to decompile VB 6 to pits original source.
See http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=788396&postcount=26.
I have not seen the original posting by Mike, but I posted a challenge:
"Decompile to ORIGINAL source http://www.standards ...

I would like to know if I can create keyboard shortcuts in my program
that operate buttons instead of opening menus.
I my program I use buttons as navigation tools to switch from screen to
screen (a main set of buttons is "shared" across the different

I am using My.Computer.FileSystem.CopyFile() to copy a bunch of files from
one directoy to another, and would like to display a progress bar on the
screen for each file being copied.  Is this possible?

I am using VB 6.0 and Crystal Report 8.5 and want to show variable length
line on my report. Let me make it clear with one example.
Let us take an example of examination results, below table illustrates
output format.

My VB6 app runs on a dual-homed machine (two NICS, two completely
different networks). I'm exchanging data with other computers on both
networks (via Winsockets).
In the case where my program is the server-side of the connection, is

The following code used to work fine, now it does damn all.
It fails (as in does nothing at the .execute stage)
Can any of you see the obvious?
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Goodevening all.
I am making a project in which i need to open:-
1)Table
2)Query

To get it started, we still support the VB6 community and we strongly
hope we will have your support as well - at least by reading this :-)
And no, it's not a free tool, but since a new release in the VB6 world
seems to be *at least* out of the ordinary today we thought you might

I think my problem is trivial but I haven't found a solution yet:
I have some textboxes and labels on a form.
Later I found that it would be nice to have these controls in a frame.
I have added a frame then but when moving the controls into the frame then

If I have a listbox control on a winform and I load it with Object X
which has the ToString method overridden to display FirstName and I
create another text box to get an instance of object X when it's
selected in the ListBox and I edit FirstName and change it's value how

Is there a way to get the ip address from a given computername?
Thanks!
Greets
Rashid

I am trying to get the terminal session id in my VB.NET application by
using the Win32 API ProcessIdToSessionId. However, the call always
fails, and the debugger reports PInvokeStackImbalance was detected. The
sample code that brings up the error is posted below.

I am a teacher writing some code to help my colleagues create a library of
lesson plans with integrated PowerPoint resources.  As part of my development
I would like to be able to set and retrieve values from
CustomeDocumentProperties in a PowerPoint presentation.