VB Forum / General / November 2006

Hey guys, i am pretty new to VB, and am in my access year to HND, i
have been given an assigment but i dont really understand how  to do
it. so i'll just write it as its written and hope you can give me some
ideas on it :

I seem to be having a problem with printing code example found on the
microsoft kb article 154078.
It is spooling but never prints and the number bytes written are 0
(lpcwritten).

What is the proper architecture to set the positions of buttons so they are
the same across all forms.
For example, set a cmdExit button at the same place on all forms
I figure I can:

I have several programs in which I use GetPrivateProfileString to read
an INI file which is physically located on another computer (on a
LAN). I've been doing this for years and have never had problems with
it.

I dont wish to sound uneducated in the ways of VB6!! but fact  is I am.
I never undertook any formal training and all along on job training for
this
Normally when I use VB6 for my work, what I do is write a form and

I'm back again. I still can't figure out how to distribute xadb8.ocx or
maybe I miss something.
I use XArrayDB as byRef parameter to COM Object. I already include xadb8.ocx
on package development and wizard but when I run it in the client (Running

Have the following .bat file:
cd  C:\RBSSynergyReporting\ReadCodes
del ReadCode.db
C:\RBSSynergyReporting\Program\SQLite3 ReadCode.db <ReadCodeForSQLite.sql

I am using TCP control in VB6. I am sending a lot of messages every milli
seconds.
Sometimes (not very often) the messages received will be out of order, and
they are NOT received one after another. In between the message, there are

My latest VB6 app requires ONLY the VB6 runtime. In order to avoid any
possible conflict with a user's system I propose to install the
runtime ONLY if it doesn't already exist on the destination PC.
There have been umpteen versions of the VB6 runtime (msvbvm60.dll).

When opening our application, one of our clients gets an error message that
an Excel file that our VB 6 application uses, is in use.  The file is not in
use, is not listed in the open files list on the server, and no Excel.exe
processes are running on any workstations.  Any ideas ...

I am setting tooltips on my controls for my users.  One thing I have found
with this is when you have multiple monitors (I have 2) and the app is
running on monitor #2, some of the tool tips show where they are supposed to
("on" the app), but some are displayed at the far right ...

I've got a situation where I'm coding payroll logic to create a direct
deposit ACH file.  I've already coded this years ago in DOS BASIC, but now
need to port it to VB 6.0.
The problem I've encountered is oddly something that's easy to handle in DOS

I happen to be "logging to textfile" in an app i'm working on
(to help debug the app)
I am opening/closing logfile with each entry.
I was wondering if that was a bad practice...in the sense of how much is

We created a VB6 application, working with Reporting Services server. To
communicate with Reporting Services server we built a small .NET Dll assembly
and registered it as COM object.
Everything works fine on the local machine, but when we put whole

i have problem to connection with mysql and vb.net
--> i have installed mysql server 5.0
--> i have install the mysql driver
--> i go to the adminstrator tools and data source(odbc) and add the