VB Forum / General / November 2006

I'm having a strange problem where my program is aborting silently
while moving through an ADO record set after like 70K records.  I want
to be able to analyze the environment at the time it fails but I'm not
sure if there is a way to tell the IDE to pause for me after a

Im using findwindowex to get the handle of a control of an application
But now, I need to get the position,size and the name(if possible) of this
control
Any api function to these informations?

Someone showed me, that he did it, but didn't explain me how.
Instead of ###### I get # # # # # #, when i peek into exe file.
Thank you in advance,
sk

I've to put a transparent background Label in front of a windowed
control (but not contained in it).
If I create a new user_control (.ocx) with the label I can set the
windowless property to false and hasDC to true and I obtain a windowed

I just opened and was looking at some demo programs, trying to determine
whether to buy a control or not, and all of a sudden I see that all of the
menu names, normally set using the Menu Editor and never before visible in
the dropdown listing of controls, now show up. I've got a ...

          In password field there are fat, black dots.
What characters are these?
Jack

I cannot believe after all my years of programming in VB, I've forgotten this.
I need to check a control on the _KeyUp event. If the user jits Tab or
return, I want some code to execute, but I simply cannot get the code to
execute.

I have to reformat some date fields for insertion into mysql which
requires yyyy-mm-dd, so I need to convert mm/dd/yyyy to that.  None of
the parameters to formatDateTime seem to be doing much for me.  I
assume that I have to create a mask, but I'm not sure how.

I was wondering if anyone could finish an vb project in 2 days. I will
be willing to pay

I have downloaded Randy Birch's "CreateWindowEx: 21st Century ToolTips
for VB - The Basics" demo from http://vbnet.mvps.org/index.html.  In
this demo Randy shows how to get use features of the tooltips not
available to VB natively.  Among these feature is the ability to

I have an existing VC++ program that I need to run from a VB6 program. Is
there an easy way to do this using api functions?
Thanks,
Ellie

I am starting to use VB6 and I have a simple question:
I have a VB6 program that loads a form and then waits for a command button
to be clicked before it does some routine.
I would like the processing to satrt automatically without clicking the

3 times I have had a blue screen while working in Visual Studio .Net. After
restarting the security setting for my project is weird....
This message appears:
"An unhandled exception of type 'System.Security.SecurityException' occurred

Can anyone recommend a basic RDBMS (a la MS Access 2.0/97) for use
with VB3 and VB6? What I'm looking for is a solution with the minimum
number of support files (DLLs).
I ~could~ spend a few weeks boning up on Rod Stephens' B-Tree stuff,

I'm connecting to an Access Database using VB6 and the Jet 4.0 connection
string.
Here is my Connection code...
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