VB Forum / General / September 2006

If I am going to develop a VB6 app that has a Microsoft Access 2002
database as a back end, should I use ADO?  I guess what I'm asking for
are opinions as to whether ADO is the current best method of choice.
(For example, DAO is not really the best choice anymore, right?)

My old VB3 phone dialler (phoner25.zip) can't find winmodems.
My new ABit PCI won't accept a "real" modem.
Have I been left that far behind by modem drivers? I was never able to
find a driver for a winmodem that allows open file as... access in VB3.

When I run the program on XP is fine.  But placed the program to run
will occur the following error
runtime error 3021 (either BOF or EOF is true, or the current record
has been deleted. requested operation requires a current record

My old VB3 phone dialler (phoner25.zip) can't find winmodems.
My new ABit PCI won't accept a "real" modem.
Have I been left that far behind by modem drivers? I was never able to
find a driver for a winmodem that allows open file as... access in VB3.

What is the best way to export an ado recordset to an excel worksheet.
Thanks in advance.

I've got a VB6 application that uses the DataGrid control.
I'd like to be able to copy the contents displayed into the clipboard so
that I can paste into something like Excel, but copy and paste do not seem to
work with this control.

If I have a date which will always stay the same, like a start date i.e.
3/4/2006, which is a Monday.  How can I work out what day that will fall on
this month if I want to do intervals of four weeks?
Appreciate any help on this.

I need to maintain a variable in a program which is truely global. I.e it
should be acceable from multiple DLLs.
In my particular application we have a global multi use function which
behaves differently depending on a switch variable. It seems each OCX/DLL

i have to make a kind of mass-mailing application, but the real sending of
the messages is to the users discretion
so i just have to put messages in outlook's outbox
i have to do it with vb6 and outlook automation

   Iam working in windows appln using .NET framework 2.0.
  My application is having several threads running.
  All threads can call a common method.
  I have following code in my common method.

I would like to disable all mouse click inputs after I click on a command
button until the command button code is run and then re-enable mouse input.
Is this possible with vb6 code or an api call? Something like
MouseInput.enabled = False, then MouseInput Enabled = True

I need help with the version IX of Crystal Reports. i am using Cross
tab with Dynamically increasing columns,  How it can be repeated the
column-head in all the pages of a report that uses the across?
Right now alone with himself to put the column-head of the fields

Just wondering if anyone can tell me about some of the products that are
supposedly VB6 portable. Power Basic 8.01 (www.powerbasic.com) is claimed to
offer hassle free migration to VB6 source with superior compiler, Real Basic
3 (www.realbasic.com) is claimed to be capable of ...

A project I'm working on is going to use VB6 as a front end.  The back
end is going to be pre-existing MS Access 2002 database tables which
already have records in them *but do not have any AutoNumber* fields
in them.

I've got a VB6 project with a frame that contains text boxes.  At
design time I can copy the frame and paste it again on the form.  I get
the usual "Do you want to create a control array?" prompt, and I reply
'yes'.  The GUI then makes a complete copy of the frame with all the