VB Forum / General / October 2006

Hi to all that replied to earlier thread I made,
Im doing a trial on something simpler before going to the actual programming.
Objective 1: User Keys in characters into text box,  hits the command , and
voila~ the output is in ascii

I have a VB6 app using MSCOMM in Binary mode.  When I send a 'D' to the
remote system, I should get 65536 bytes back.  I can't seem to capture
more than 50k or so with my app, and the code hangs waiting for the rest
of the bytes.  Can MSCOMM do this at 9600 baud without ...

Hello,
I have a customer he is using a program developed using VB6. Recently, he
purchased a Tablet PC and wish to adopt the program to the Tablet. I don't
know whether it is possible.

I'm trying to copy a picture to the clipboard and then release it in a
DataReport.
I use following code:
Private Sub CopyPicture()

Hi, All
I need advice about upgrating VS .NET
I have VS .NET 2003 v1.1 installed on Windows XP.
I have projectes developed in C#, C++ for desktop applications and C# and

I'm trying to pass a variable to a field name, as illustrated using:
Dim FieldName as String
FieldName = ""
RecordName.FieldName = ""

For eg. if a user input 123 how to I use VB language to convert into binary
numbers?
Im rather clueless about this. Thanks!

Problem: Programmically changing the record count in a dbf file
No matter what I test, nothing seems to work.  This is just an example
of what I want to do.
In the dbf header there are bytes that indicate how many recorrds are

I need some help creating a visual basic code that uses the
if..then..elseif..else structure to make the decision about what Roman
Numeral to Display.
The application should determine which number is the smaller and which

I think I'm at the point where I know just enough VB to be dangerous...
I have a user control I designed which consists of a picturebox and two
textboxes.  I would like to add this control (actually several
instances of this control) to a listbox and have the listbox display

Greetings all, sorry if I over do with the cross posts...
I've prowled around in all the places I can think of trying to find a
way to send and receive (that's the tricky part) PJL commands and
responses to printers connected direcly to a computer via USB or

    I needed to set up a new development machine with 2003 Server.
I gathered the old CD and installed VB5 followed by SP3.
When I load some of our projects, some forms crash with the following
message (home-made translation, as we're not using the US version of

I found some sample VB code which I'm trying to implement in Visual
Studio 2005.  I think the code was VB6.  VS05 doesn't like the syntax.
I've distilled things down to the part with the error:
Public Sub WontRun(ByVal v As ListView)

We are using a VB Data Environment in our application (appears under the
'Designers' group), and for each DataEnvironment object there are 3
associated files (*.DCA, *.DSR, *.DSX).  We are also using an RCS (revision
control system).

Hello - I have a vb script that returns records from a database to the
console and I would like to format a second column to line up (right now
using tabs and I do not like the look).
Can someone help me out?