VB Forum / General / February 2008

VB6SP6
My App opens and copies many files.
Works on several hunders then comes to a text file.
File anemd "Easy File.txt"

I've been searching and not quite sure if I need a certain version of MDAC
or whatever to connect VB6 to a SQL 2005 database.  Is this the answer
below?   Comment where appropriate please.
1.) use mdac 2.8.   (2.7 won't work??)

I´m working in a program witch need to read Exif data from my Sony
Alpha A100 raw (arw extension) pictures. I found a table with keys for
read it, but i can´t read. I tried something, but i can´t. I found
this "table":

I have sent Richard the money for the xmComm ActiveX-control without nag
screen, but I didn't get any reply from him for 3 days.
Can anybody who has the control without nag send it to my? PayPal
receipt is available.

With official VB6 support from Microsoft ending this March, I wonder
if there would be any interest for a commercial 3rd-party 100%-
backwards-compatible implementation that would be supported and
maintained for the foreseeable future, and eventually extended in the

My problem is quite unique in my opinion.  I can not type any code in
VBA in Excel 2007.  I can type in cells and everything else but when i
press alt+f11 to code in VBA i can't type anything.  I uninstalled and
reinstalled the whole Office 2007 suite and this still did not fix my

Please don't post VB.NET questions here.
This group is dedicated to Classic VB, versions 1-6.
A complete list of potentially appropriate groups follows:
  microsoft.public.br.dotnet

I have a variable of type single that I want to display in a text box to
two decimal places but I don't want it rounded. (i.e. 123.4567 should
display as 123.45) every function I can find - even format - rounds the
number. is there a function or other quick way to do this?

Ever notice what a dog .Net is compared to VB6? The IDE's a dog and so are
the apps.
The .Net framework cannot even convert VB6 code sufficiently to make it
worth using. If I even suggested a change for my company's software where we

When I want to back up the Database of my project the Options are Select
Floppy or Hard Drive e.g. A or C.
I want to add a BackUp option for a storage via any USB socket when I load
this on my computer it adopts the letter E.

Siily but, a pain.
VB6 SP5:
I have one module.bas out of 7 that won't scroll with the mouse wheel in
design mode.  Also, three forms that scroll fine.  Any ideas??

What does that & mean in this Dim?
I know it is used to type Hex values &HFF0002 for instance.
Has it something to do with that?
What happens if I remove it.

When do people think VB6 will be useless for newer OSes? Any news on that?
thanks

I have a function "DoSomething" that it is called from the constructor and
also from the code like in a click event. Is there a way to know, from my
DoSomething function, who has call this function? ex.:
Sub DoSomething

I expererienced this yesterday (resulted in loss of a months work).
I am using the FireFox browser and I decided to clean my browser cache.
 At the time, I had previously launched a program (VB6 application) by
typing its full pathname (e.g. c:\path_to_project\myproj.vbp) in the