VB Forum / General / November 2006

I have a context menu on a button. I just need some code that will
delete the button when the context menu is clicked.
One problem is that I do not know the button name as it is created
dynamically

I want to ask you how much is the maximum
size of a file that is accessed sequentially
by command like :
Open "TESTFILE" For Output As #1  

have 2 questions about ADODC:
1- If I set "EOF=doAddNew", and go to the last "record" of ADODC, it asks me
to enter a new record, but what If I regret and want to go back to previous
record without adding any new items? It doesn't let me go back, unless I

I'm OK with the GetAttr stuff, that is not the problem.
If the test object is on a LAN, before I do the GetAttr I would like a way
to test if the network path exists, and do it quickly. The best I've found
so far is using GetDriveType which seems to cache some information but it

VB6 SP6
My program has been compiled a hundred times over a year without this error.
 Constant Required.
All of a sudden! I get this error.

Can somebody please help me! This problem drives me mad!
I've got a small GPS-Reciever; very nice little thing.
Now I want to design a little program to connect to the reciever. I looked
on the internet for some help to connect to the COM-port. Just a little code

I am getting an error every time I open Visual Basic. The initial splash
screen opens, then I get "Visual Basic has encountered a problem and needs
to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience".
This is how it happened.

I have a problem. I have a code , it opens worksheets from different
reports. But the problem is if the number of worksheets is 3 it works
fine. If that number is one, the report screws up. Could anyone give a
suggestion of how to get the loop worke excel reporting so that if

I have an app which uses a big (44708 bytes) UDT, which is made up of
Longs, Doubles and byte arrays.  Since that is bigger than 32k, the
compiler chokes on it when I try to define it as a local, and demands
that I dim it as either a global or at the form level before it will

Just wondering if there is an equivalent way to alias data types in
VB.  I have to convert a bunch of SQL C header files so I can use ODBC
functions.
Thank You

I'm having trouble connecting to an access db using a database control
using Jet.  After providing the database file name when I try to
activate the recordset dropdown in properties it gives me an error and
says, "unrecognized database format".

I'm having some difficulty with argument passing.  I'm trying to
utilize the low level ODBC API (need to use it for test purposes)
I've declared this function just as it's writting in the MS ODBC API
reference:

I have a few hundred addresses in my database. This is not the database for
spamming, but a database of client's clients. Because mails aren't valid, I
would like to ping mail server if mail exists. Is this possible through vb?
SK

I am looking for a 'simple' method to derive a trianglular wave
given a progression of angular values.  In the example below
the peaks and 0 crossing points should match that of the sine
wave.

Is there a code to shut down your whole pc?