VB Forum / General / October 2006

Apologies for what must seem a newbie question (but I'm a newbie!)
I'm building an MDI app, and have declared new instances of several child
forms in a module. Then, in the parent form (where the IsMdiContainer
property is set to True) I simply Import the module, and then behind ...

I have a C++ library that is being called from a VBA spreadsheet.
Up until now I have been able to add new API's to the .idl, implement them
and call them from VBA successfully.
However, when I add any new API to this .idl and implement it, as soon as

Dear Frenz,
                How to add multiple filters in common dialog control
.Please suggest me.
For eg.I want the filter to be *.txt and also "all "how to do this.

whenever closing my vb exe filse the error occuring
" this program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut
down"
also

Adding a Form from another project to a new project I get an "Error during
load. Refer to <path>AddedForm.log".
The log says this:
Line 31: Property TabPicture(0) in SSTab1 had an invalid file reference.

Hi guys. I am working with some old code in an Ms Access VBA
application. Just need to locate the system32 folder. One way I know is
to use Environ("SYTEMROOT") & "\System32" but I guess there must be a
proper way using Win32 API to do it. Would appreciate for any help

Can I develop an application with Visual Basic which run from a CD without
the need of installing on the target machine.
I want to develop an applicaction which run when the user insert the CD in
its computer, without any problems about install the application on the

I have a combo box that populates based on the selection of another combo
box.  The code for populating the 2nd combo box is similar for each choice
and currently looks like this:
Private Sub getComboRS()

I have thousands of .htm documents sitting on a file server that have
been downloaded from various company web sites and many of them do not
have a titled and instead read <title>Untitled</title> or
<title></title>.  Is there a way to programmatically change these

Hi all, we have a lots of DataReports that are designed in VB6 with the
Microsoft Data Report Designer 6.0 (SP4) (MSSTDFMT.DLL).
After the report is generated, we export it in a PDF file.  Sometimes we are
creating over a hundred PDF file.  The problem we are facing is that once ...

I recently added PDF creation capability to my application using some
code I found on the net. It seems pretty straight-forward, using a Class
Module, and apparently having no dependancy on an actual Adobe PDF
Writer installed. The problem is that this code works great on my

The Visual Basic 2003 application that I wrote was installed on Windows 2003
Server and we are trying to acess it across the network from Windows XP Pro
but we are getting An Exception System.Security.SecurityException has accured
when we try and run it.

I notice that VS (and therefore VB) 2005 are not ".NET " products. Does this
mean that the gentlemen of Redmond have come to their senses?
Perhaps the next version will be VB7!
Lenny

Been a while since I've worked in VB6 ... definitely more of a C# guy ... was
hoping there was way to access the current call stack in VB6, without an
error condition being in effect?
thanks in advance!

Can someone please tell me what is wrong with my project. I have been working
on this project for 5 months. My deadline is the 9th of October. This morning
when I tried to open my project, VB6 told me that it was unable to load my
project. I tried opening form by form, but some ...