VB Forum / General / November 2006

Is there a place where I can obtain the icons used in MS Office...for use in
an application?
Thanks

I have an app that under certain circumstances I need to show/hide or move
certaincontrols around based on the users actions.  To prevent the user from
being able to see this I call the LockWindowUpdate with the form's hWnd API
prior to the work then call it again passing zero ...

I searching a good course on-line in Visual Basic .NET for beginner.
Of it you know someone?
Thanks to all.
Cannonball

I have an activex dll that runs "in process" in another app
Dim oApp as ExternalApplication
Set oApp = CreateObject("AppName")
Set cWidget = oApp.GetInterfaceObject("DllName.WidgetClass")

I am new to VB, and I am working with an app that is calling a
function from an custom.dll
When trying the compiled version: Everything works ok, but when I
terminate the app, the visible parts (windows, etc) is removed from

StringToSearch.IndexOf(SubStringToFind) returns a 0 if the substring is not
found.
However, it also returns 0 if the substring begins at position 0.
For example,  using a substring of George to search in George Bush returns

In server manager {NT days} you are able to send messages to a server. Anyone
with a mapped drive or using a resource on that server would get the net send
message. We use it for notifying users a server is being rebooted.
Is there anyway to do this with VB 6?

I need to find a path to \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data
What will be the simplest way?
I have tried Environ("common_appdata") but that does not work.
Jack

I came here looking for some help with rotating a label.  I found the
following msg from Mike D Sutton
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion/browse_frm
/thread/e443fdcd355178b9/db3e098791709419?lnk=st&q=Rotated+label+VB&rnum=7&hl=en
#db3e098791709419
...

General question about where to put frequently used code.
according to my understanding (fuzzy thinking<g>), code "should" be modular
with, among other objectives, the above mentioned tight cohesion and loose
coupling.

I have an "Export to Excel" routine in my app.  I give the users the
opportunity to select/create a spreadsheet, as well as name the worksheet
they wish to use.  If someone is using an existing worksheet name, it will
tell them that and ask if they want to overwrite or choose a ...

Hi frens...
this is ravi.....
I hav a problem in sending parameter  from Vb 6.0 frront end to crystal
report 9.0.

(note: u may see this post in vb.api. actually, i intended to post in
this forum but i mistakenly posted in vb.api)
I'm trying to write a VB 6 program which will read from a text file.
The text file has 2 column, attribute's name and attribute's value as

Does anybody have an idea as to how I might (without adding logging
code to every click event) log the user activty within my app?  My
problem is this, I have an app that is used by workers on the factory
floor.  Most of these users are not very computer literate and therefor

I'm new to VB. I would like to know, how to print data over a form. Much
like Turbo Tax prints the data over the tax forms, all in shot.
Visual Studio 2005, SQL 2005.
TIA,