VB Forum / General / July 2006

I dunno what might be the cause of this, I have done a c++ dll that runs
under VB application, the dll is included with an automation library, the
program runs well but when I try to debug the program with the VB debugger is
just crashes when calling the dll, I dunno why, I even ...

Hi ,
First of all, I have “Microsoft Office Document Image Writer” is as the
default printer in winxp.
when I tried the following VB code, it opens the SaveAs dialog box to save

I have a 2dimensional string array which holds filenames and the file
date/time in each index.
Now I want to sort this array by date/time so that the oldest file is first
and the newest one is on the last position of the array.

I am strictly a hobbyist user of VB.  A couple of years ago I developed a
program for a friend that runs a travel agency to do all of the record
keeping , updating of trip, travelers, mailings, payment processing, etc.
It works just fine.

I am totally new to VB and i have just started to learn it. I am stuck
at the very basics so i would really appreciate any help.
What i need to do is transfer the information from an Excel file to a
SQL server table via a DTS package by copying columns. During the

Hi all,
When I try to enter a VB6 form, it always prompt a olemainthreadwndname error
message.
olemainthreadwndname: Project1.exe - application error

i am a fairly good vb programmer and web designer. i design activex,
class modules, code modules, even websites....but i just have never had
to  design a macro, i realize they are commands, and are also known as
vba? but after that i know next to notin???

The firm I work for is upgrading to a newer version of the CAD software we
use in house. What I would like to do for testing is be able to have a choice
of which CAD version to use when opening a file.
If I click on the file I want to open, I don't want the file to open the

I have four combo boxes in an array, called cmbSW.  Each combo box has
two options which I have set in the .List property.  However, behind
these text options I need numbers encoded, so I have also set the
.ItemData property with the two numbers (these numbers are 1 and 0 for

I have a running (client server) Application with VB 3.0 ,Win NT server
and Win NT workstation with MS SQL 6.5
I want to Run my VB 3.0 exe on Win 2003 and win XP environment with MS
sQL 6.5 .

How do I print the contents of a tabbed page??? Want to be like front and
back page????

I want to raise a custom error in a function and/or subroutine but I want to
allow the calling routine to handle the error... How do I go about this?
As a simple example let's say I want to do something like:
Private Function TestErrorStuff() as Integer

I'm wanting to figure out how to create a VB script that would search  
particular directories and display the files that don't meet our company
standard in  word or notepad.
Thanks in advance,

Anyone here have any experience with opening and using an MDB file
(from within my VB6 app) that is physically located on another
computer?
I have a situation where I have two apps (running on two different

I need to write an application that alerts us on the health of our disks.
In more details:
We have several servers whose disks are RAID1 mirrored across two disk
shelves on a SAN.  The idea is that if a shelf becomes unavailable then the