VB Forum / General / September 2006

how can i find out the path to an executable
say i want to find the path to winword.exe
i'dd like to shell an executable and supply it a commandline
tia

Perhaps you can help me. I have a com object which I converted from VB6
to VB.NET. I am using this com object with other .Net applications
without any problem. However, I am now trying to use this com object in
some old ASP code which I have not yet converted. I want to use the com

I'm trying to copy the contents of the grid.  I've done this before,
and I can't see what's wrong.
gridReport is a MSHFlexGrid.
There is one fixed column and one fixed row in the grid.  I bind the

I wonder what's spookin' the Micro$oft legal team? Check out:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/newsroom/winxp/windowsprinciples.mspx
This one's particularly good . . . . .
"Microsoft will not retaliate against any computer manufacturer that

Please excuse the newbie question.
I have a listbox and a label that get updated with information during the
run of my program.  However, the updated information (like which file is
being processed) does not get displayed until the program has finished

I was wondering whether it is possible to convert a DC that i've
created from "CreateCompatibleBitmap" which is stored as a Long into a
Stdpicture, like used in Picture1.PaintPicture as I obvious have
"drawn" my picture into a DC but then might want to freedraw it with

i want to build a program that would have the ability to check if the
specific folder is shared and when the specified folder is found shared it
will make the folder unshare. Is there any code available to use to make
solved my problem. please help

i want to replicate the  vb 6 code
*****ActiveMdiChild.<procedurename>*******
i found one solution that says ask for name of active form and then go
for procedure

Need to do some VB6 development work.  Re-installed VS6 but can't find MSDN
disks!  Phoned Microsoft but they don't sell VS6 MSDN disks any more and
couldn't tell me if VS2005 MSDN Library would give me the help files I need
for VB6.  I'm stuck!  What do I do?  Where do I get the ...

Comprehensive guidelines from programming .NET Framework and OOP.
http://dotnet.it-mystic.com

I have a problem with my VB application, sometimes it goes crazy when I
try to localize my document name using Documents(i) when i iterates
from 1 to Documents.Count.
I noticed that usually the object Documents(0) does not exist, but if

Can some direct me to a toggle Commandbutton/ TIA

It's been a while since I paid any interest in the VB6 service pack
thing..but..was VB6 sp 6.0 ever fixed up?
Thanks
David Clifford

basically i will be reading in some kind text string in the format of:
CCC CCC or CCCC CCC where c is a number or letter.
I need to strip everything after the space, including the space so:
ABC 123 would become ABC, ABC2 123 would become ABC2.

I'm using a datepicker but the only dates I want to use are the last
day of the week, regardless of where the user clicked.
So, I can derive a last-day-of-the-week date in the code when I use the
datepicker.value, but I thought it'd be nice to immediately set the