VB Forum / General / August 2006

I know that I can repeat a single character using the StrDup function.  Is
there a function that will allow me to repeat a string?  StrDup(5,"John")
returns "JJJJJ."  Is there a function (or workaround) that will
return"JohnJohnJohnJohnJohn"?

I'm not a VB person, but I have inherited VB 6 code in my current job.
We recently started running our software on a much faster PC. Our software
is basically scientific in nature and relies on  heavy math processing. The
previous PC that we were using was less than half as fast ...

I am writing an app using VB6 that will reside on a kiosk. The app is a
registration station where the user will select their name from a drop-down
list and print a name tag. I want the app window to take the entire screen
as well as keep the user from closing, moving or resizing it ...

I have worked on creation of normal DLL's and currently have to work on
creating a COM DLL and using the functions of the COM DLL in the VB
application.
I have no idea of writing COM DLL's.

           I have a table which contains the tree relation of menu
items...I will self join the table in order to get the menu tree..The
table is as follows
                    Menu Name             Parent

Hello all, I am new to VB and am trying to do something simple but
having a problem.  I have coded my OK command button to compare two
text boxes and prompt with a message box if the strings do not match.
If they match then the program should continue and if they do not match

I have a VC++ COM component that implements the IPersistStream interface.
In VB6 is it possible to serialise and deserialise instances of this
component?  Can VB access the IPersistStream interface without me resorting
to installing 3rd party DLLS / TLBs?

I used this site a lot, but it seems to be gone. Anyone know where it
went to??
http://www.sloppycode.net/
Kind regards,

If anyone can help, I would greatly appreciate it.
I am selecting a .bmp image for my background image for a button on a
form in
Visual Basic .net 2003 Standard edition and the image shows up fine in

Try Following with VB6 toolbar control.
1) Place Toolbar control on form.
2) Add Drop down Menu for any button. with more than 1 mnu items
3) place timer control on form having interval more than 2 sec.

Yesterday my last programmer left my project so now I'm just down to me. No
one wants to work on vb6 anymore! I'm only on the project 2 days a week
myself because I don't want to do vb6 either. It's getting to the stage that
it needs to be upgraded to dotnet just to keep the ...

I am new to VB6 SP6.
I am using 2 DTPicker controls to calculate the date difference.
My question is how can I set the default date on the DTPicker to show
nothing at run time?

I had a single form application and was watching for certain key events
using this code:
   If bDisableExit = True Then
       Exit Sub

I have the Microsoft DAO library loaded in the project and i've created a
ODBC connection to the oracle database in the "Data Sources". But i get a
run-time error, "ODDC Drive Manager. Data source name not found and no
default driver specified" on the open statement.

i am getting a runtime error  message  "failed to parse the sql " on
executing  the following code in vb6.Database i am using is
sqlserver2000
the error code is   -2147211398(8004277a)