VB Forum / General / November 2006

A basic design question...
How big is too big when it comes to a VB App?
How many forms are too many?  How many modules?  How many classes?  etc...
When desigining an app...  are there any good rules to follow with VB6.

Hello, can someone tell me the quickiest or easiest way to tell if the host
computer is connected to the internet? If the computer is connected I want
to connect to a SQL Server instance, and do somethign else otherwise.
Thanks in advance for any advice

Hi I am writing a large program where I am using three text boxes. I am
performing validation controls on these text boxes however there are
some conditions
Names of textboxes

How Can I Send Mail via VB6.0 while my mail is a..a@yahoo.com
i.e. To Yahoo Mail ?
Thanks a lot

I (like perhaps some of you) am trying to figure out how we can use our apps
on Vista. The vb6 apps themselves will work on Vista. The largest 'snag' of
it all is, in Vista, ALL applications get run as a standard (non-admin) user.
While some Win2000 and XP systems are set up like ...

    Hope that you can help me with this one. I am trying to develop a
nearest-neighbout spell checker like the one used in word.
    I have a flat file contain around 250,000 english words in alpha
order. It's in the form:

Hi I have a text file of in the following form: this is called
C_nets2.prn
       11        12         1
       11      9901        2

I am writting a VB application.
I have some forms and I want to introduce some delay between display of
First and Second form.
I am calling form2 by under form1_load().

Hi everyone.  I hope that I am coming to the correct forum with this.
I have a VB6 application which communicates with a pinpad (RS232 device) in
order to collect credit card numbers and encrypted PINs for POS activities.  
The I/O with the pinpad is handled via home-grown code and ...

Open "com1:" for Output as #1
Print #1, "xyz test"
Close #
The above code will print to a printer attached to com1. The code will work

I've been using VB for many years now, writing all sorts of files to disk,
and this is the first time I have ever encountered the problem that I
currently have. I'll get around it of course, but in the meantime it is
still a very interesting problem and something that I imagine ...

I want to make my program that I had created with visual basic 6 to
auto start when windows start, how can achieve that? Please, I do NOT
want to achieve that through autobatch and Startup folder...
Thank you in advance...

I want to bulk import the CSV (Delimited) file into the ACCESS table
using VBA.
Can anyone help me... ?
Thanks in advance.

how can i rotate text and images in vb6

i search for a code snippet that allow me to safely remove a external USB
"harddisk". I found some solutions for USB-sticks but they don't work with a
external USB harddisk.
thx