VB Forum / General / January 2007

I'm using the ShellExecuteEx command to launch applications for
ShellAndWait and ShellAndWaitIdle routines.
There's a possibility the file to be executed may not exist.
I would like to be able to handle the errors manual within my program and

I want to insert the date/time into the rich text box RTF string .
How should I do it  ?
Same as for the ordinary text box ?
Anil

The behavior is what I expected, but I'm not sure how folks get around this.
In my VB program I shell out to an executable with some command line
arguments.
App.Path & \blah.exe -a -b -c

I had used these groups a few times. This time this is not a VB
question and a request to the watch-squad here: please dont send me
away saying this is not the right group to ask this question.
I am intrigued by the prefix 'microsoft' in these groups' names. I

Sometimes I have the following error when running my code:
"Visual Basic has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for
the inconvenience."
There are not any other messages, nor the visual basic stops at the

I had used these groups a few times. This time this is not a VB
question and a request to the watch-squad here: please dont send me
away saying this is not the right group to ask this question.
I am intrigued by the prefix 'microsoft' in these groups' names. I

Hi: In the MSFlexGrid control if grdEditAssign.TextMatrix(i, 4)='All'
then grdEditAssign.TextMatrix(i, 5) will be automatically 'All' and
grdEditAssign.TextMatrix(i, 6) will be fill with Grey Color and blank.
How to i do that where i have to write the code needs help. I am using

Just a beginning coder and having some problems writing Instances to
WMI:
I'm able to create the data class structure in WMI, but when I go to
query the mapped drives to write them to my static WMI Class

How can I search an entire computer for particular file types?
Once teh particular file types are found, I want to be able to have the full
path saved.
Pretty much the same as when you click on teh Search button iin Windows and

I have a problem with DateAdd and Zulu time.
I create a report in my program and I want to give the report a
creation time in Zulu time.
So I created a TimeDifference in hours.

I need to read a binary file > 2GB. (17GB in this case)
So I'm trying to use the setfilepointer API, which
accepts 64 bit integers.
I could write a function to take my large offset and split it into

I'm running out of controls on my main form (form1).  So I've devised a plan
to store the controls in another form(form2), and have it's contents loaded
on the main form when required, then release it from memory afterwards.
The main form has frame1, which I plan to copy the ...

I have VB6 (I know it's old, but I like it)
I am trying to write a program that will take all the files iin a particular
directory and upload them to a specific ftp site.
I am using teh line of   "Inet1.Execute , "put " & File1.FileName"

I have a component that runs fine on a server, but from my local
machine will not run.  All it does is open an xml file.  The line below
that is commented out is the original that runs fine and the
uncommented line is one I tried by setting a reference to my own local

I have an existing VB program that invokes an external VC++ program
using Shell command. The VC++ program uses ParseCommandLine() and
ProcessShellCommand() MFC APIs to execute the request from VB. Now I
need to go the other way, i.e. have a VC++ program to invoke an external