VB Forum / General / February 2007

What causes Run Time Error 3052 (File sharing lock count exceeded)?
I have an app (VB6) that runs 24/7. It stores and uses a bunch of data
in an Access MDB file. At 3:00AM (when the program is not actually
doing anything), the following sub is called to delete old records

I install one german software in my computer.
But I can't open this software and one window show me this message
"Runtime Error 13, Type Mismatch"
How can I fix this problem?

Using NPer function for a loan and gets a run time error message. The total
loan amount is 125000, 6% rate and monthly payment, pay 625 per month. It
should return 200 payments. Instead it gererates an error message.
Here is the formula: TotalPayment = NPer(0.06/12, 125000, 625). ...

Anyone know how I can pass this from
VB to a C++ DLL?
char **varname

I have created a VB6 EXE app which makes use of MS-FlexGrid & a MS-
Access database along with some TextBoxes & CommandButtons. After
creating the EXE, I zipped the EXE file & the Access database file
(using WinZip) in one ZIP file.

In VB6, is there a maximum character length that a parameter can
contain?  I am passing a parameter to a function that is contained
within a custom DLL and the length of the parameter is 18,230
characters.  I am getting a non-specific "runtime" error.  I can't try

In the well earned absence on holiday of my mentor, can anyone answer this:
I am wanting to announce and later make use of system time on a form. I am
using Now() or Date(). These two produce the system info *at the time of
loading the form*. How can I make them constantly update ...

I am trying to use the code below to send to LED display. However, the
value in the text box "overallOEE" is coming from a calculation in
code using Currency. How can I get the value in text box "overallOEE"
to a ASCII string so it will recognize it in the code below?

This is not technically a VB problem.....  but this has always been an
amazing place for support and ideas with my own VB apps... so here
goes.
I'm sorry to be so wordy... there actually is a question at the end...

For the life of me I can't figure out how to get a set of radio buttons that
I have in a group box to by default all be unchecked.
Any help is greatly appreciated (if this is possible) and although I am sure
this is quite simple

Is there an option or a way to do a full row select in Windows Explorer in XP
or 2000? For example, rather than just highlighting the file 'name' to
select, can you expand the highlight across the full row for a particular
file?

Hi: Can any one please tell me how to i increate the column size when
data taransfer to column 10 as right now its outputting in scientific
notation for cases where clt_ref_no is long only in column number 10
Thanks.

Can you write me a function?
I need my app (VB6) to read and write to a text file. No problem with that,
but the path to the text file is.
I'm in need of a function that can return as String the path to the

All,
I'm trying to add some functionality to a program which uses Excel to
generate a company report.  Each report is product-specific & the goal
I'm trying to achieve is to add contact information to the top of the

hey guys, what's up??...I have created a program that prompts a user
to enter a FactorKey into a form to select the data that they want to
pull...I also have check boxes to determine what tables to pull
from...this is being pulled from an SQL DB so i have a select