VB Forum / General / July 2006

I am getting error "Multiple step OLE DB operation generatied errors. Check
each status value" while running the Vb Code.
The error occurs when opening a recordset with records of nearly 4300000.
I am using the below coding to open the recordset.

Is there any way to have a horizontal scroll bar for a DirListBox?
I tried SendMessage with LB_SETHORIZONTALEXTENT, but that did not do the
deed.

So i'm using a treeview control to display a tree in the traditional
fashion, and what i want to do is simple...i want to display icons next
to the nodes, one icon if the node is a leaf, and another icons if the
node has children.  Simple right?  So i load up the tree and only the

I'm building a Word 2003 add-in, which save documents directly to a
webserver and put some information into a database.
The documents on the webserver must be in different directories,
"http://something/company/project", I need to create the new

Is it possible to use %SystemRoot% in code i.e. automatically converts to the
Window system folder (different depending on the Windows OS version)?  If it
is possible, how is it implemement (code snippet would help)?

I have an app that shows all the desktop shortcuts in a popup menu from the
system tray. One of the items is My Computer and clicking on it opens My
Computer in the explore view.
Would it be possible to just expand a sub-menu showing all the drives and

I'm looking to distribute VB created EXE's via download from the internet.
I want to allow download of "crippled" product (time limited, reduced
functionality or both) and then allow the user to register the product and
receive an unlocking key to get the full product and/or to ...

I am working on VB project. I am new to VB. Could any one tells me what do
the following codes do?
Specially, what does GetPrivateProfileString do?
Private Declare Function GetPrivateProfileString _

Is it possible to rotate a label 90 degrees?
I'd like to take an ordinary label with a couple of words of text in
it and rotate it 90 degrees counter-clockwise.

I have developed various DLL's with different languages(C#, C++ & VB6.0) and
I need to messure the ñapsed time in each execution, can I use the Now()
function?
Here is my actual code:

   Can anybody help me to take the machine id or hard disk id
using visual basic 6
Thanks in advance
Sam Alex

I'm reading a text file and trying to parse a line like the following...
<home name="althorp" sourcefile="althorp.c" copyof="calthorp" fileof="calt">
The line might not have all headers in it.  I can do a instr searching for
all headers one at a time and also searching for "s to ...

I would like to create an applcation (using VB 6) that will synchronize
the files from a USB flash drive with those on the systems HD similar
to the synchronize feature Windows does with laptops.  So far I have
found that by responding to the WM_DEVICECHANGE message I can determine

I've been working on a program in VB 6 for quite some time now, and all
of the sudden today I am getting this error. The error occurs whenever
I make a change on a form, click run, and click yes to save it before
running. If I make no changes, I can run the program as many times as ...

I tried to using a text control and I need to use its numeric value, first I
need to know wich function can converts a numeric text value to integer
and/or decimal. I tried to use n=CInt(Val(textControl.text)), but appears
the error number 6 (overflow error).