VB Forum / General / March 2008

Just read through the March 2008 Visual Studio Magazine  (Enterprise
Solutions for .NET Development), for the poll results for:
What is Your Primary Programming Language?
The results were:

What is the most efficient way for me to check whether or not the 2nd
and 3rd characters in a 5-character string are alpha (A-Z or a-z)?
The only thing I can think of is to extract each one and check its
ASCII code number. Is that the quickest way?

I have a vb6.0 app running on vista. The application is installed as an
administrator.  My app runs when I start it for the first time.  If I close
the app and try to run it a second time - it will not function.  The only
way my application would run a second time if I right ...

I have someone who is building a project of mine. He's been doing this
for some time (on the same computer) and today he's started getting
the message:
File not found: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\ieframe.dll\1'

I have created an Access DB Query( Client names) and have a VB6 Form
frontend. I need to create a search using a Textbox and Listbox, where
I type into the Textbox and the results from the query are returned in
the listbox. How do I do this??

What is the easiest (as most like simple embedded SQL) to declare and
open/then process a cursor in Visual Basic/Visual Studio 2008?
I wish it were as simple as it was in MF Cobol or C and its flavors
where your could just use EXEC SQL .......... END EXEC.

VB6SP6 on WinXP.
Is it me or is it the MSFlexGrid?
I adjust the column width in the resize event.
Some cols are fixed and some are dynamic based on what is left ofer as the

I am trying to get an old VB6 app running on Windows XP (been running very
well on W2000). Everything seems to work fine except for the ListView
controls. Everytime I try and re-order the columns I get an error.
"The exception Integer division by zero (0xc0000094 occured in the

I have a form with 10 or so checkboxes
I also have a button that is enabled only after a checkbox is checked
the button is disabled if no checkboxes are checked.
Is there a way to evaluate ALL the form's checkbox values?.

VB6 development on WIndows 98SE
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I've just been looking for memory usage monitors. I don't want bells
and whistles. I just need to know much memory my program is using and,

I am having problems adding objects into a collection.
I am trying to read system files.  then add data into a new custom class.
Add the object into a collection.  using the file name as the key.
My code is below.

Can you use the common dialog to select a folder?  Not a file?
If you cannot, what is the best way to allow a user to select a folder?
thanks

Can anyone tell me which versions of VB will produces programs that
will run properly in Vista?
There seems to be some question as to whether or not VB6 will do the
job; what about more recent versions?

I use the registry SaveSetting to store an encrypted password, what I would
like to know is after the registry is updated is there a means of reading
that the change has taken place so I can say :- Password Saved OK.
Can anyone help please?

When I try to connect from VB6 to Access 2000+ databases I encounter the
message "Invalid Database format ------", whereas Access 97 databases are o.k
I have upgraded to more recent service releases but this makes no difference.