VB Forum / General / February 2008

I am using the Dir function in VB6 and seem to have encountered an
upper limit on the length of the PathName passed into the Dir
function.
When I have a Path longer than 260 (inclusive) characters then using

I add items (as Icons) and set the view to Icons.  When I select and move
one of the items within the listview control, it appears to drag outside the
boundaries of the listview control and the vscroll and hscroll bars appear.
The problem is I want the items to remain aligned, ...

Are there any code examples around showing how to clone drives?  I'm looking
for something like Ghost where I can clone an entire disk(not just a
partition) from a pre-build environment like Bart's PE.  I would like to
send it to a network share compressed and then bring it down ...

Users can "add" items to the listview with the click of a button, but I want
to prevent duplicate items from being added.
I understand I can loop through each item when a new item is being added but
that doesn't seem very efficient (O^n right?).  Is there a way to search on

In my project I would like to listen to certain port. That's why I created
usercontrol with the winsock control on in the problem is, that with every
initialization of this usercontrol in my project I get an error "Address in
use"?

How can I display a progress dialog from within a Visual Studio 2008 IDE macro?
I’m a C++ programmer who is trying to write some IDE macros to automate
various things that I do all the time—such as inserting blocks of text,
reformatting sections of code, etc..  The macro that I’m ...

I've done some searching for a PDF OCX control I can use to write PDFs from
my program with varying results. In fact, I bought one (Image Viewer CP Pro)
that makes PDFs, but it involves printing to a PictureBox, copying the image
to an ImageViewer control, then saving as a PDF - ...

The whole story.
I just upgraded from VB4 to VB5 on my Windows XP
computer with 500megs of RAM.  When I  run the VB5 Application setup Wizard
to create my distribution file (of a program that has run for years in VB4),

How do I write this statement?
If :
VarName1 is true
VarName2 is True

What features would you like to see in a next version of classic VB,
assuming such a thing would happen? Please restrict yourself to
language features and base libraries (such as e.g. Collection), not
IDE or task-specific libraries (UI, database access etc). A few

Can anyone offer a words of one syllable explanation of this error? I've
scoured all the samples I can find, and my code appears to reflect everyone
elses and no samples seem to handle errors. Here's the code:
Private Function DoFTPRequest(ByVal url As String, ByVal method As ...

Please direct me to the right group, if I posted this in the wrong
one.
I developed an application using VB6, placed the exe in a shared
folder on our server and created a shortcut to the exe on client

i can find a crystal report component in the visual studio 2005 prof
version.
does it require a lic to build client applications?  or require a lic
on the client site to run the application?

VB6SP6
I have used INET to get web pages and extract data that appears on the web
page.
Now with ASP I would like to understand how to get data from web pages.

The company was Music Quest, anno 1990, and it produced a Standard
MIDI File toolbox with source code in Pascal. The QuickBASIC version
did not include equivalent source code, as QB was not as powerful back
then as VB classic is today. I have rewritten parts of the Pascal