VB Forum / General / July 2007

VB6SP6
I need to do High Resolution Elapsed Time
  microsecond granularity ( around 10uSec to 50uSec would be nice )
  will be timing up to several minutes

VB6:
If I know the hWnd of one of the controls on a form in my VB program, is
there any easy way to access it's properties (i.e. Name, ToolTipText, Tag,
etc.)? The code that knows the hWnd is inside a .bas module, not within the

I am working on a quiz type program that will read the questions from
a TXT file. I was wondering what the best way to seperate every
question and still have the ability to read it from the txt file and
write them to a text box on the program. All help would be

I have to pass a SOAP message to a server, and I know only server IP
and
the port number. I was gonna do it from a form, using WebRequest Class
and

1) How do I stop the VB6 IDE Find Dialog from jumping around?
If I am seraching, the darn thing likes to jump around forcing me to
re-mouse to it to click. (yes I know about F3, but that is the parallel way
to find so I want to use both at the same time).

I know I'll probably feel stupid again, but I have to ask anyway <g>.  I'm
going through my code doing general clean-up and adding comments I may have
missed, error checks, etc..  I've a great alpha-tester; she seems to be able
to break anything!

I'm about to download the Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 development tool and I'm
wondering which one I should download, the professional or standard. It is
not clear to me what the difference is. The "Overview of Visual Studio 2008"
does not seem to indicate what the difference is ...

            Sorry to re-post the question. But I have some problem in
the previous post. My question
is how can I set the Paper Size of Printer object to A4 Size. Then I
will not need to adjust the

Is it possible to access Outlook folders with VB 2005 in a similar way as is
possible using the Mapi control in VB6?
Regards
Brian Smart

Where on the Microsoft site (MSDN, whatever) can I find language
reference etc. on VB 6.0?
Thanks!

Is there a way of using the Richtextbox Find function to find words with all
capital letters and then highlight them?

I have some map images on which I would like to identify few locations. My
map image is inside an Image control. I would like to know how can I use VB6
to identify a desired location on the image. I should be able to draw a small
circle or a square etc on this image wherever the ...

For what it's worth, here is an official document from Microsoft stating
the VB6 runtime will be supported on Windows Vista, and listing the VB6
components shipping with or tested on Vista:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbrun/ms788708.aspx

Hallo everybody,
one question:
Is it possible to connect with multiple clients to a singleton WCF
service?

I am using this code provided by MikeD and I want to sort the Combobox
entries so I added the line as shown **
This give an error "Can't assign to Read-Only property"  How can I sort the
Combobox? can you help please