VB Forum / General / October 2006

I have one report which is not supporting Chinese characters, so now I
need to read each character present in ASCII and convert them to
UTF-8...
So I want ASCII to Unicode and Unicode to UTF-8 conversion in VB 6.0

I would like to detect the Service Pack level for XP, Server 2003 and
possibly a few others. Is it possible to do this from VB6, maybe by
reading the registry?

    I'm used to using CTRL and the up/down arrows to scroll the
screen, so that I don't move from where I was in the code and don't
have to move the caret up or down against the highest/lowest displayed
line to have the code scroll.

How to enumerate existing comm ports?
Jack

I dont know what's wrong with my VB6.0 IDE. i think i clicked something
and caused this.
I mistakenly clicked "X" of the controls toolbars and it's gone and i
have no idea how to get it back.

Newbie with VB6 SP6.
I get this error when I try to open the .exe file on another computer:
"Class not registered
Looking for object with CLSID: {00000010-0000-0010-8000-00AA006D2EA4}"

I upgraded to IE7.  My app has an Internet Transfer Control.  Now, the
control is always in the "still executing last request".  Is there a work
around for this?

I found a message to do with XP SP2 causing this but no solution.  I
have a backup app that will backup from a users My Documents to their
home directory on our file server.  This has worked really well and
then now some users are unable to backup.  I just need to copy a file

I have a device ( Norstar SMDR6)... this device detects incoming and
outgoing calls and prints the information (caller number, number called,
time start, time end etc) on a dot matrix printer. The device connects to
the dot matrix printer LPT port using 12/13 pin cable. What I ...

Hi I am working on an assignment for class and I am having trouble with
it.  It is on Form, Local, and Global Variables.  I am trying to store
two different numbers and have them displayed in a label on my form.  I
have made the variable declarations, and the input box, but when I ...

Is there a way to get a vb program to control the size and location of
other application windows?

I haven't been able to find it in the MS newsgroups

I want to display a six figur number which is build up from three
numbers.
All goes well until I get somewhere a number smaller then 10.
for example:

Anyone here have some information about what an IDispatch
Interface exactly is, and how to tell if a file exposes such an
Interface, and if this something doable within VB?
I've taken a look through a few DLLs, specifically some data-

I am having difficulty overriding the ToString() method of CultureInfo using
Visual Studio 2005.
Exactly the same code works fine with Visual Studio .NET 2003.
What I am doing is adding objects which are derived from CultureInfo to a