VB Forum / General / November 2006

I have an application designed in VB6.0.  I am being told from users (away
from development office) that an error is being generated (error 94).  I
placed some logging code in the application to write test lines out to a
text file so I can pinpoint exactly why and where the error is ...

anyone have recommendations for freeware code snippets database type
routines available?
I use mztools currently but interested in alternatives also.

I'm getting error 451 "Property let procedure not defined and property get
procedure did not return an object"
I'm doing the following:
for each myobject in mycollection

but never had time to do it.
How to delete the control from the project which is outside the screen?
For example txtBox.Left = -20000
How to delete that control without moving it back to the visible area?

I have a date and a date format string and I'd like to convert them to
a date in VB6.  Is there any way to do this with a built-in function?
For instance I have February 12, 2006 represented as "12.02.2006" and I
have a format string of "dd.mm.yyyy".  Is there any way to convert ...

Using VB6.0, I created an app that uses the DriveListBox and
DirListBox to allow the user to find a folder in which a search begins
for existing files.
The app fails when using these controls, but if I provide a list of

I need to write a program for work that will allow me to produce a
report with alot of JPG files (around 1800).  I wrote a demo program in
Access but had to write the report generation in a loop because it I
just created the report, it filled up the memory and crashed.

I am running into a minor issue and I hope you can quickly help me.
I am trying to install Visual Studio 6.0 on a Win2003 Server machine.  I ran
into an issue with “Setup was unable to create a DCOM user account in order
to register <path>\valec.exe”

I'm new to using VB scripts and there something I need to do but can't
figure out how. I need to know the VB script to start a PowerPoint slideshow
on the current slide. It's basically like clicking on the icon at the bottom
left of PowerPoint.

I have just built my code twice, on the same machine, with auto-increment
off (I did not change the code in any way). I also did not close the IDE
between builds, but now I have two different EXE files. If I perform a hex
comparison on the files, they are quite different, and not ...

I am using the code to show my app when the app icon is double-clicked in
the icon tray.
Private Sub Form_MouseMove(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single,
Y As Single)

A 3rd party application, over which I have minimum control, presents a
form which acts like an Option group. The option buttons are cycled
through by using <enter> key and when the button is selected, the user
must go to the mouse and <click> to activate the selection. This then

How are you guys doing !
I have a code in VB which brings in cell values from various Excel
files.
The code works perfectly.

We are unable to display our help topics under Vista.  It seems that
WinHelp32 is not provided with Vista.  Microsoft says not to use that help
system.
Any suggestions as to what help system we should use with VB6 now?

Hi gurus!
Is there an easy way to be able to disable/enable the Form Window Close
button (X)?
I have a process which is kicked off from a form which is also updating a