VB Forum / General / September 2006

I have a program which contains a standard top-level menu created with the
IDE Menu Editor. Beneath my "View" menu is a pull-down submenu containing a
list of items that can be displayed/not displayed in the software. I use the
.checked menu option to let the user know which ...

I have a customer that is operating over a WAN on a T1 line.  They are
experiencing unsatisfactory performance.  (they have tried using ODBC
and OLE-DB connection) They gave the application 30% of the bandwidth a
put a monitor on it.  It never used more than 10% of the available

Microsoft Interop Forms Toolkit is now available:
This toolkit helps you bring the power of .NET to your existing VB6 applications, by allowing them
to display .NET WinForms from within the same application. Instead of upgrading the entire code
base, these applications can now be ...

I have a group of option buttons.  I'm trying to select which one is
selected in my code.  I have them assigned in an array with unique .index
values.  When I try to read "optSortOrder.Index" I get "Method or Data
Member not Found".  In fact, the only options in the code builder ...

Could you tell me where I can get a sheet that shows whats is and what is not
compatible with vb 2005(is that the same as vb.net?)
Can programs developed through the above run on Win xp media center edition,
Win 98, etc

I'm using a graphical 3rd party ActiveX Control that doesn't recognize the
shift nor the control key for the OnMouseMove event.
The application needs to process data only at certain points when the mouse
moves on the control.

I have created a VB.NET COM DLL (Class Library).   It is called from a
VC++ program exe that is in turned called from another application.
The VB.NET DLL is a trivial project with one Windows Form that contains
a couple of text controls to display the incoming message.

Please forgive me if this is a dumb question, but I really did try
finding the answer before I posted here.  I am very new to Microsoft
Development (was a Domino developer for 10 years and have just switched
over).  If you can help with this, I would greatly appreciate it!!

What is the code to filter File extensions when using the
application.GetFileOpen synax.

I am building a install package for distro on NT and XP. Should any
of these default files be removed because they are OS related? TIA.
asycfilt.dll
comcat.dll

How can I get a certain character in a string?

XP says it can support up to 10 monitors.  I have three and can't find any
way to hook them up at the same time.  Is there any one that knows how?  One
of the monitors is DVI only.  Is there a specific video card?  Multiple video
cards?  My computer people say it's not possible, ...

I managed write to registry key with string value using
RegSetValueExString API calls, but I have no idea how I can write to
registry key with binary value.
I have the write the following information to the registry (assuming

Hello group,
I have an imagelist with graphics already inserted.  However, I do not have
the physical graphic files so I cannot remove any of the images.
Is there any method of extracting icons from an imagelist control and saving

The title explains it.  I want to do a query and then add some columns
to the resulting ado recordset, iterate through the recordset and put
values in the columns.
My working alternative is to create a second recordset with the columns