VB Forum / General / September 2006

I have a textbox in an application that holds a file for specified record.
This file type could be .pdf, .doc, .dwg ...  Is there generic code to open
the file based on the registered program for the file type?
Thanks

Scenario:
I have a HP 3200 All-in-one (printer, fax, copier, scanner) that I am connected to via a JetDirect box.
I would like to scan a document from my computer. If the device were connected to my computer directly via the parallel cable, this would be a very simple task.
A call ...

My program has a Frame that fills the Client area. A Flash9.ocx is in this frame. I open a Flash swf
file and it is displayed correctly.
That is the Menu bar and the Start bar appear at top and bottom and the Flash program fills the
Client area..

I am importing from a CSV file and I was wondering if there is a way to
create a dymanic input line.
This is the line I am using.
Input #1, strPeriod, strGrade, strTeacherLastName, strTeacherFirstName,

I currently select certain files in a directory to send to an email message
as an attachment.  The file naming convention looks something like this.
W30877proof.pdf
I currently get the left half of the file name (W30877) from a textbox and

I am about to sell my first VB6 program, and for some reason I'm under the
impression that VB6 programs won't work on Windows 3.1, 2000, NT, and/or
64-bit computers, and I don't have any of them to test it on.  Is this
correct?

I have some troubles passing and recieving UDT's from a VC dll
this is what is in the .h file
struct TMscEventNotificationDesc
{

Just installed VS6 and MSDN Oct 2001 for some legacy application support. I
am getting the following message when trying to access the help in VS6.
Cannot open file ........\msdn130.col
Iv'e uninstalled and reinstalled a couple of times but no joy.

I'd like to use regexes in a legacy VB5 program. Do you know of good
regex engines that I could use, ideally as a COM server (OCX or DLL),
but a C DLL would be ok too?
Thank you.

As part of my registration process....I would like a few items (name, serial
number...) transfered automatically from my VB 6 app to a web page for
submission.
How can this be accomplished...

I have a customer who is complaining that the reports (excel) my
program (vb6) produces can't compete speedwise with a similar sql query
directly to the database backend (access 2000). I provided him with a
feature that stored his most commonly used queries which then were