VB Forum / General / December 2006

I would like to develop a multi user chat application in LAN. I have seen some examples which connect one user with another and chat. but what i want is, there will be 10 or more users will send message to one server application and the server user will respond to the users ...

as i understand it vb uses 2 bytes for every character in a string (in
memory)
if a string is output to a printer/textbox/label , then vb uses 1 byte for
every character

I am a bit new to using xml so apologies if my termiminology is
incorrect.
Is it possible to list all the field names from an XML document in the
same way that you can with an ADO recordset?

I wanted to wish everyone here a very happy holiday season and hope you all
have a very good New Year.
I have received a lot of help over the years from this newsgroup, in
questions I have asked and reading answers to others questions.

OS: Win2000Pro SP3
app: VB6 SP3
I'd like my VB6 app to access the system date in a way not obvious to
crackers poring over its native-compiled executable i.e. a way that

I was just wondering if anyone knew a better/more efficient way to compare 2
strings to see if their format matches. Below is what I am currently using,
just seems to be a little messy right now.....maybe I am wrong and I want
something simpler....let me know, thanks!

  I would like to know if there is any way for me to pull Infomation from
either media Player playing MP3s or from a site such as XM-Radio?
i would like to pull like the song name / Artist / Album.  
Is this possible?  

Hi, Everyone!
I was wondering if anyone knows how to make an automatic indent in
regular textbox in VB6.
Thank you in advance.

I need to use the KeyDown event in a form to capture arrow key input.  I also
need to use an animation control on the same form.  However, the animation
control seems to intercept the KeyDown event and won't allow the key input to
reach the form's KeyDown event.

A quick one. How can I play a predetermined *.wav file when a given button
is clicked? Vb5 but could use vb6 if not available on 5.

I run this code in a project, but unless I close the recordset I cannot get
it to update to the new requirements what am I doing wrong please?
Public Sub Class_Initialize()
'Notes here

I have a VB6 DLL that needs to be registered on a x64 machine. Right now it
fails, because I'm missing Visual Basic runtime, which never was a problem on
a 32-bit OS. Where can I get the runtime for the x64 edition? SP6 is still
32-bit so it doesn't work.

How can I get the "modified" date of a file that's located on another
computer (on my LAN)?
I have an app that's used only in-house. When it starts up, I want to
have it check to see if an updated version of itself is available (the

I am using the FSO in my program and everything is working fine until
I try to use the Move command as follows:
          fs.MoveFile strFileOld, strFileNew
Then I get the "Permission Denied" error.

I'm looking for some advice from someone that has done this as to the best
method to import from a fixed length file into a SQL db. The file I'm
reading in starts with a header line and then there are 2 lines per record
with each line containing about 800 characters. Here is the ...