VB Forum / General / February 2008

Hey guys!!!
I am doing a software in Visual Studio, and I found out that I have a lot of
repetitive code, for example, clearing some textboxes on a form, disabling
some for items, etc.

VB6SP6
RE: AddIn that I have compiled previously on another PC.
I brought the source to my laptop and tried to compile.
First I went into addin manager and "disconnected" the old version.

          I have noticed that increasing dpi to 120 or even more does not
have any effect on Microsoft's windows such as Control Panel and the
programs within it) or Windows Explorer. All fonts and menus appear to have
the same look as in 96 dpi settings.

I have a VB 6 app that uses version 5 of the windows common controls.  When
run on certain machines I get the message: "The feature you are trying to use
is on a network resource that is unavailable.  Click OK to try again, or
enter an alternate path to a folder containing the ...

I developed an application with VB 2005. I'm using dsoframer control
in the application to host MS Word document.
I have no problem to load the word doc inside the dsoframer. But the
problem is every time i click on the Print Preview button to preview

I would like to offer a user a choice of selecting pen style ("SOLID",
"DASH", "DASH-DOT", "DASH-DOT-DOT" etc), as well as the pen width and
the brush pattern to use for drawinf (vertical lines, diagonal lines
etc), I have seen a lot of graphics programs that display these ...

I would like to create a class lib in VB 2005. I would like to later refer
to this class lib in a standard windows app of VB 2005 and create objects of
classes defined in this class lib.
I am new to VB.Net. Can you please guide me on a step-by-step procedure on

Have you ever seen some of those charting programs where you can click the
chart and a rectangle box opens up and follows the cursor around with the
prices updating in the box?
I would like to do the same thing but am not sure how the programmers did

Guys,
Thanks to a previous thread here, I have made some progress with
including web document events into my VB6 programming.
One question I have though, is the following:

I have some VB6 code that will retrieve the manufacturers serial number from
an IDE drive.  Is there any way to do this for a SATA Drive?
Thanks!
Rick

Does anybody have some insider info about how Microsoft creates their
GUI elements.
I think they paint everything and do not use bitmaps at all. I was
wondering which functions they use.

I am getting "The Instruction at "0x01e65a77" referenced memory at
"0x0527d240". The memory could not be "read".  application error.  My VB6
program runs a laboratory test.  Each time it runs the 16th sample, the
program crashes after 5 seconds of operation.  Each sample ...

I have a Form with Control Arrays. I call a Procedure this way:
Call subRead(ctlCombo, Me)
Public Sub subRead(ctlCombo as Control, objForm as Form)
Inside theProcedure I try to call another Procedure, which needs the

I´ve got a question regarding controlling an external app. I´m writing
a vb.NET app that, at some point, needs to push a button in an
external app. This external app has no API whatsoever. Is there a way
to do this? I guess I have to raise a ButtonX_click event in the other

Is it possible to display an image (icon), and some text in a combo box ?