VB Forum / General / February 2007

I have an issue whereby when the application is distributed any form which
uses the ADO data control does not show the data. The rest of the program
works fine with the data. This has now become a real problem and we are
supposed to release this next week. Can anyone suggest the ...

Im looking for a way to deactivate multiple controls on a non-active form
from responding to the mouse but I dont know how to test for the identity
of the active form
more specifically Im using MSFlexgrids that respond to the mouse

I'm using MS Access to send automatic email to a distribution list.
However, everything it sends the email an outlook pop up is display
saying: " A program is trying to automatically send e-mail on your
behalf.....etc.

I need help reading a text file.   I'm guessing it's pretty simple but
anyway.....
Let's say I have a text file and each line is a different length.  What are
the commands to use to open this file and read it one line at a time?

Its been several years but I thought google had a website section that
people could post code problems with the amount they are willing to
pay for someone to help them solve. Do you know if this site still
exists.

I have an Install project in C#. There are two versions of the same DLL (say
xyz.dll) that exist on the dev machine and are packaged into the setup.
I need to determine the version of Application installed (in this case Adobe
Framemaker) on the target

I am trying to debug a VB Code but i am stuck to find table name ds.
This is the table (debtudf) which i find it in the Adaptive Server
when program is pulling data from there but no idea where in the
program it define the table ds. Any idea or suggesstion where i look

Out of curiosity about the latest thing, I purchased a book last night at
Borders...
Beginning Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition - Peter Wright
It includes VB 2005 Express Edition, which apparently MS is giving away (I

Hello, friends,
I created an .msi file using Visual Studio Installer. It would install
flash8.ocx control.
It worked fine if no flash component was installed in the machine. However,

I know how to create the custom resource from a manifest file ( exename.exe.manifest )
I know what to name it.
I know what ID to give it...
But, how do I call it / load it at run time so I don't have to use / distribute the separate exename.exe.manifest file??

Hello, friends,
Out VB6.0 app needs 2 forms working side by side, say frmA and frmB. It is
required that frmB must be always on top if there is an overlap.
How to do this? Any suggestions and reference papers? Thanks a lot.

I seem to have a problem interacting with a FORTRAN programme for
which I have no control.
When my visual basic code runs an algorithm, it produces files of the
following form

I am looking to write a optimizer but my math is not what it should be.
I have tried a brute force method of iterating every possible combination
until I get the results I want
but it takes days or weeks to run that way. Has anybody written a "general"

Hi to All.
My company is moving to a brand new product - Amisys Advance which at
this point has an Extremely poorly debugged web interface (let's just
say when I started this project I had a full head of hair..:)) Be

i would like to know how i can use a gui component written in .net in a vb6
project. so far i could register the dll (with regasm /tlb /codebase) and
create the link in my vb6 project.
my concern now is how i can use the ui component in this dll. i know that i