VB Forum / General / February 2007

Hi.  Could someone please explain to me the reason for the 'Set'
keyword in VB.  Am I correct in thinking that Set is used for
assigning to a reference whereas assignment to primitives is done
without 'Set'?

Hi: This is the original string.
strbuffer=2007022713495176690010323181
MTMASSTS03A20060913                              OMSS          HCS1
Can any one please tell me how to i change the above string

I have a compiled VB6 app that seems to work ok when installed on Windows
Vista except for one thing.
Whenever I use the SENDKEYS command to send a key stroke an error occurs
along the lines of "No Permission" to do that.

I'm running my VB6 program in Interpreter mode.
I hide the taskbar on my desk top.
Why won't the taskbar show if I run the cursor to the bottom of the screen
while the program is running?

If anyone is interested in employment in Portland, OR, please respond
to grandnagel at hotmail dot com.
I have knowledge of a company who is (desperate) to locate someone to do
VB 6 and sql server with a mish mash of IT work thrown in.   They are

I have trouble with sinus and cosinus of angles.
In a form I defined some text boxes, and I am inputing the angles there. But
the code returns wrong values for their sýnuses or cýsinuses.
for instance I am writing

I am writing an app which needs to create and send email messages.
The machines on which this app will be running do not have any
installed email client (these machines are on the plant floor).
A further wrinkle is that the virus software is setup to block any out

I cannot seem to get the Excel instance to quit after I am done with
it, except to close my VB6 program. The below is what I am doing after
adding in the Microsoft Excel 11.0 Object Library reference:
Public Sub ReadSpreadSheet ()

There seems to be a bug with the rounding function that means it's
inconsistent in some circumstances. Below is some code to demonstrate it, but
does anyone have any idea why the behaviour changes post compile?:
Dim c1 As Currency

I've been building a DLL to use as a library against which a small
number of appliations is built.  Everything has been working fine, up
until today.
One class in the library is a FormFactory.  The form factory returns

I am preparing a report using a database.
I defined DataEnvironment and DataReports properly, my report is almost
ready.
But I have a serious problem with page header section.

Windows xp, Access 2000 Outlook Express 6
I am using DoCmd.SendObject to send emails - just sending a message text but no object.
I run the code -
SendObject works once - one email is placed in the outbox - but when used again does nothing (no error is generated)

I am reading a huge csv file (196000 lines, each line with 6 fields
separated with commas) using a string. Then I split (Split function)
the string into lines and further breakdown the lines using the
location of commas. Then I search for a certain range of values and

         I am searching for Excel property similar to .Tag property to
store additional data in the Excel Spreadsheet not visible to the user.
That data will be different for each spreadsheet row.
How to do that?

I'm using VB6 on an American English Windows me platform and cannot set the
textbox RightToLeft property to true. I'm offered the option, but when I
select True, it always sets the property to False.
What am I missing?