VB Forum / General / October 2006

I have a textbox that I use to display a date.  Is there a way to have the
"/" stay in a textbox when a user tried to edit the textbox?
Thanks

I've seen various post suggest that an INI file is preferred to using the
registry for saving application configuration data.  My question is this...
If a user doesn't have admin rights on the PC, where is the best place to
store the INI file?

I mad a small program that will use the spreadsheet in VB6 that you can add
from components.
I input data to the spreadsheet and now I would like to save to an actual
excel file.

I need to make a row from a spreadsheet unique. I do not have control
over the data in the spreadsheet. I just process it in my VB code as a
recordset.
Is there any way to get the row number from an excel spreadsheet? Or is

Hello All, I am writing a snippet of code to run automatically when a
document is opened. This is Documents.CheckOut (Filename1) where
Filename1 is set to address of the file on the sharepoint server. What
I would like to know is if there is a way of checking to see if the

When the value is true, If the Appearance property of the checkbox is
set to Button, the control will appear sunken when Checked is true and
raised like a standard button when false.
If I want to return to a standard button after click, all I need is to

I'm having problems with a monthcalendar control I need to synchronize.
When I change dates in the list box and numeric up down, I need to
have it change my calendar control.  and Vice versa
Here's my code.  It looks like there may be something wrong in my

When I write
Length(some_string)
my VB6 changes it to
length(some_string)

Is it possible to generate a recordset of running numbers (ie 1, 2,
3...) using SQL statement ?
I am using MDB file.
Thanks.

Back again,
Trying to encrypt any file on disk
Can I use code something like this to encrypt a file and not just a string
of data.

Hello, recently I was looking through the system properties and came accross
system.visualstyles namespace.  This appears to contain all of the visual
style elements in xp and I was wondering if it is possible to change these,
either using the way I found or another.  When I ...

A fairly common requirement is to detect if your VB6 code is running
compiled or in the IDE.
I use this frequently.
However, I want to take it a step further, and detect (when in the IDE)

hello, while I was exploring the tons of properties under system, I found the
visual styles namespace.  I wanted to try and change the visual style of
windows xp.  (without using any other programs out there) Is this possible to
do from visual basic and if so please tell me how ...

I'd like to implement an autoupdate feature in my application.  i.e.
everytime a user starts up the app, it checks a network drive location to
see if a newer version exists.  If so, it pulls down the new version and
starts using the new version.  I've googled this and found a ...

   I am trying to enthenticate user via Active Directory using
DirectoryEntry object
   Question is when fail to enthenticate, the object root.NativeObject has
Error number...I don't know how to get those error numbers to a