VB Forum / General / August 2006

Is it possible to retrieve column information from a recordset? I have an
ADO recordset, and I'm accessing the values in the fields by the
myRecordset!myField method, but I want to know if myField exists in the
recordset before trying to read it, as if it is not there then I get ...

i have a text box (for giving the path of file to be saved) and want to give
file browse select control with it (as file control in asp) in vb6.0.  But i
am not getting the control.
Pls Help

When selecting Build from the Build menu, a release folder and its
executable is not created.
I am using VB Net 2005
Thanks in advance,

I have looked into a lot of documentation and tutorials on how to use
VB Resource Editor. But all of them explain loading of
icons, gif files, jpg files in detail and conveniently just say
text/string files

I have an application in VB6 that starts with a splash screen followed
by a form which has a text box.
The splash comes up in the foreground, but the next form seems to go
behind existing windows such as an open explorer window.

I have received an odd request; they want a certain .wav file played at a
certain point in the execution of my VB6 program.  How do I accomplish this
directly from code (i.e., I don't want to have to attach the .wav to a system
event; I just want to play it)?

I open a form like this:
Set Biofrm = New BiographiesNew
Biofrm.Show
Then from within this Biofrm I click and open another form. I add a

Does anyone know a way in which you can programmatically vertically scroll a
treeview control? I have a Treeview and a grid next to one another and want
to be able to have one vertical scroll bar that scrolls both controls.
You can turn the scroll bars off but if that's the case i ...

I am probably experiencing an ancient problem and need your help.
I am using the following:
- windows 2000 server
- vb6

While the IDE is stopped, type the following into the Immediate
window:     ? .x"
The error is "invalid watch expression"
How do you suppose they determined that?

I would like to attach the keyboard shortcut to the command button, which
has graphics placed over it.
What is a trick?
Jack

I am making an application with VB6 SP6 and I need to save data from a
maximum of 180 text boxes/combo boxes/labels etc to a .mdb (Access) file.
It's been working fine to save the data until I tried to fill all the text
boxes and combos with data and then tried to save them to  ...

I have a form (frmProject) with a Usercontrol (xProjectGrid1) on it. The
user control in turn consists of a flexgrid and other objects.
At runtime the flexgrid grid displays a list of project numbers that are
"pulled from" a database having a table named PROJECT .

With a flex grid I have in my project  I format a column as follows to show
just the date portion of a date/time field DateCompleted
               dDate = m_adoRecordset!DateCompleted
.......

My apologies if this is an obvious question, but it's late at night and
my brain is descending into numbness.
I have a word macro coded into the ThisDocument module of the template
so that it auto executes on opening the document.