VB Forum / General / January 2008

I am an old timer VB 6.0 programmer trying to convert to VB2008.
I have imported an application from VB 6.0 to VB 2008.  I am just setting
the Startup Object on the Project properties to the MDIform so that it starts
the program from there.  

VB6SP6
I want to be able to open Windows Explorer with the path to an application
I can do that for a .exe using te shell,
Opens the application or Windows Exlorer to the locaton ofthe application.

I have a form with a textbox.
Above the textbox there is a label that describes what to enter in the
textbox.
The label text is something like: "Please enter &Target..."

Is it possible to get error 3163 (field is too small) from anything
OTHER than trying to put too much data in a database field?
I have a program that is crashing sporadically with this error. I have
thoroughly checked and tested it - I am controlling all instances of

I would like to ask if anybody knows how Microsoft does the fade effect
on a button leave event on Vista.
Do they use a simple API timer??
And how does a control know that it should fade out?

I have 3 picture boxes: OriginalImage, PaletteImage, NewImage.
With GetPixel and SetPixel API functions, I retrive a pixel colour value
from OriginalImage, retrieve one from PaletteImage, do a simple bit of
manipulation between the 2 values, and store the resulting colour as a ...

Hi
OK so far so good, with help from the forum I can now save to my floppy and
hard Drive, and with the Simple CD Burner, Burn files from my hard drive to
CDs.

I'm using the DOM to access an XML document and then populate a grid
with data from the document.  I'm filling a 3 column grid with values
and I have approximately 200 XML nodes worth of data.  The grid build
process seems slow to me.  It takes about 3 or 4 seconds to fill the

Is it possible to have a command button in graphical style that the picture
placed on it with resize with it?
Your thoughts please,
Jack

How do I get arguments sent to the program when it starts?
I was thinking about getting them in sub main() but how?
I can not add arguments to sub main() can I?

I want to detect element properties on mouse over. for example i have
an image in a web page. I want to get all the properties of that image
element on mouse over from vb6. How to do that?

I have my application created, got the manifest installed. So far so
good.
Send to my tester and he can't run it, he's testing using XP.
So far, so bad.

I am using an EventTraceListener to display certain significant events in a
VS2008 console app that runs on a server. I am able to write
"Trace.TraceError" messages, as well as information and warning messages,
along with my message text.

Hi,
I am using an VB ActiveX Dll Application with the following code to update
blob data to sql server 2000.
Dim cn As ADODB.Connection, rs As ADODB.Recordset, SQL As String

In VB 6, is there a simple test, or some sample code, to determine
whether a user is administrator or user privledge?