VB Forum / General / February 2008

         Internet Explorer window has 3 diagonally drawn small lines in the
bottom right corner.
Their backcolor (outline) appears to be white.
I am trying to achieve the same look by drawing the same 3 lines in vbasic,

I have created a form in a DLL that is shown via a class module
subroutine...my question is when I show this form from a separate calling
program, do I need to destroy the DLL to make sure the form is gone when I
end the calling program?

I have a VB.net app that connects to a remote SQL server via TCP/IP. Most
folks can connect just fine. However some enterprise users are in a
corporate environment that will only allow connections through a corporate
proxy server.

I'm after after a serious media blitz, most of you must have heard about
Vonage by now.  VoIP provider.  If not, no worries.  I get my monthly email
"newsletter" from these folks and now they apparently have a "click-to-dial"
desktop feature.  So I download it out of curiosity, ...

On my new PC, when I exit any VB6 app it stays active for 15 seconds in task
manager. I can't restart the application until this time expires or I kill it
from task manager.
Also in the IDE it takes 15 seconds to give control back to the IDE after I

I'm writing a function to copy the files and durectory structure from
one place to another. This is what I have but it doesnt work properly.
If a directory already exists already it collapses. It only copies
files sometimes as well. Can anyone help.

I am remodeling a program where the original designer used a text box to
change data in MSFlexgrid.  They make visible the text box over the cell to
be changed then the new data is entered into the text box and upon an "enter
Key" they push the data to the cell.  The text box ...

I know about the MIDI i/o that was made GPL, but what about all the
other demos? They have disappeared.
MM

I use one big folder to store my data.
Now I want to divide all my documents over subfolders.
Every subfolder represents one day. So for the year 2007 I would have
the subfolder

I am facing a problem in receiving data from the serial port com. As it
stated "Receive Buffer Overflow".
I have configure the setting as shown below.
MSComm1.Settings = "115200,N,8,1"

I cannot find the snipping tool listed anywhere. Where is it hiding?

I am using a ListView control in a project, and despite my best efforts
over the last few hours and Googling furiously, I cannot display icons
in the listView, when I set the View property to lvwSmallIcon (1).
Is this a shortcoing in the LV control, or am I doing something wrong?

I know this has been hashed many times in recent years. But I'm curious as
to how this is seen TODAY as VB6 continues to grow older and older.
I've spent my last several years just trying to get the hang of VB6. Many of
your here are incredible programming pros that have me at awe ...

I'm new to VB2005. I have a form with a variety of controls which provide
criteria for a data search, which is triggered by a button. The results of
the search are stored in a two dimensional array. The array is then diplayed
on the form as items in an 11 column ListView object. ...

I have the following code dumping the reults of an AD search into an Access
db, but whenevenr it finds a record with an empty value (say 'company' it
throws an error. How do I get round this?
Thanks, Pete