VB Forum / General / November 2006

I need to create a self run program which will run in Windows 2000
background all the time.  I presume i need to write the program as a Window
Service, am I correct?
If yes, I'm not familiar in this area, any sample code for me to follow and

I'd like to build some reports for my app.  I don't think I want to do the
reports with a data environment, because I want the reports to be based on
the current recordset from the main data form.  the recordset from the main
data form is pretty dynamic...i.e. I have a bunch of ...

I have a program that used to download maps from Mapquest, it was a
simple matter of building the right URL, loading the page, examining the
src of each img until I found the right image, then saving that image to
the hard drive using the INET control.

Are the trig functions, Sine, Cosine, and Tangent, built into VB.Net?  I
haven't been able to find the functions.
I'm using Studio 2k3 if this helps?
Thanks in advance.

  I am trying to create an XML report template that will print three
different types of reports based upon choice. I've been researching
this all day and no one knows anything. If you would, please show me
how to create the report and how to run it; or if you would, give me a

I use Text1.Setfocus to locate the cursor in the Text1.Text, when this
happens, the cursor shows up at the beginning of the textbox. I mean if there
is a data already entered in the text1.text, the cursor shows up just before
the data. I want the cursor to show up at the end of ...

The subject line pretty much says it all:
What is the best way to write code that will detect whether a
particular record in MS ACCESS 2002 is currently locked by another
user?

Hi all, i'm using VB6 and i need to know the window title of a program,
is there a
way to get the window title? i don't know if i must find first the PID,
can someone write an example? Thx all :)

Is there a built in method or API that allows a program to identify that
last item selected in a multiselect (checkbox style) listbox?
The goal would be to provide the last listbox index that was checked ON.  If
an item was checked OFF the function would return a -1 for nothing ...

I am attempting to create an API layer for my application.  The UI interacts
with the API, the API interacts with the database.
Essentially, each object is responsible for its persistence.  At this point,
I use flags (IsNew or IsDirty) to indicate the state data of the object's

I am creating a dll in VB6 and I am having problems with the listbox
control.  I set the listbox control to show 15 columns but when I try to put
data in any column after the 10th I get an error that says
Invalid value for list property

hello...anybody can help me plz..
I want to run external program (e.g : pkzip) that use parameter option.
I tried with shell function but couldn't work because I did know to pass
parameter option to pkzip program.

somone wrote a c++ project with a lot of Dll's. I need to include one
of those Dll in my vb6 project to use some functions there. i havent
succeed to insert it : it's not an ocx component and when i copy it in
the system32 folder and i see it vb refuse to insert it in the project.

I am writing an app and looking for suggestions. I want the app to run
undetected, hidden or mininized with no tray icon, and to function with
both Windows 9x and NT based (NT, 2000 and XP) systems.
Here is an example of what I am trying to do. I want to launch my app

For fifteen years I have religiously followed Hungarian notation and
prefixed every integer with an i, every string with an s. Often I have
wondered why the heck I do this. I have never, or hardly ever, needed
to puzzle for very long over whether a particular variable is an