VB Forum / General / October 2006

I have an application in which I project images and lines on a VB form
through so called Ropes and Boxes:
Boxes:
Public stdPic As StdPicture, X&, Y&, Text$, Text2$, Id$

I had a piece of VB6 code which worked fine on the Windows 2000 Domain. But
since we upgraded to Windows 2003 (Service Pack 1, Servers running in mixed
mode). My code no longer works and just returns the error:
-2147016672

I have 100 more sorted items on my combo box. I want to search  some item
that located in the middle of the list by typing some letters. for example if
i type the leter 'G' on the combo box it will autmatically goes to text with
first letter 'G', if i type 'G' and 'R' it will ...

I'm working on some code displaying images and lines on a form.
The number of images is different every time so I created an Array but
the problem is that
the code is not excepted. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

I have trouble to asign a helpfile to a form (mdichild).
on a form with 3 buttons a label and a textbox i have set WhatsThisHelp
to false and helpContextID to 1004.
when i run the program and open the form the F1 does not work but if

I have a VB6 build procedure using /make which fails with exit
-1073741676, but it compiles OK in design mode.  This has been working
fine and suddenly is failing.  Any suggestions appreciated!

I am currently switching from vb6 to vb.net. I know in vb6 in order to
add a control such as a label you would use code such as
me.controls.add("Forms.Label.1"). Could someone please tell me the
equivalent of this in vb.net. Thanks so much.

I am just starting to learn to program in VB and have a question. Can a
program designed in VB be used by computers that do not have VB? If
yes, how is that done?
Thank you

This is really odd.  Not even sure why I have not run into this
before.......
My app has a sub that needs to determine if one number is evenly divisible
by another.

I have a field: txtTotal that I need to SUM in the Form_Current event.
I created a query:
SELECT Sum(Attendees.[Room Price]) AS SumOfRoomPrice
FROM Attendees, Registrations

What is the best method for loading combo boxes for
pre display processing? I don't want to hit the database
when forms load over and over again.
Should I load the database info into an array once and

Can I make my right and left arrows keys perform like tab and back tab with
VB 6?
Thanks,
Martha Hoffmann

Is there a way to add custom properties to a file?  I've tried the "DS: OLE
Document Properties 1.4 Object Library (DSOleFile)", but it only works for
Office documents.
Thanks for your assistance,

I am currently designing an application and I have in place a multi-layer
design (UI, Service/Facade, BL and DL).  My questions is regards to my
facade interface between the UI or BL.  I have a form where a user has alot
of user input.  The user can select many products and ...

Win XP Pro, VB6 SVP 6 : also
Win 2K Advanced Server
In a simple form there is a command button, when I'm pressing it, the
program does some easy wirok, then Unloda me.