VB Forum / General / March 2008

In column A I have a start date. In column b an end date. In column c
I want the time in days between the two.
How do I di that?
Many thanks

Add this to your registry if it is not already there. This came from
Microsoft support and it fixed the problem for me.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MS Setup (ACME)]

iam having listview with its view as report.
i have some 100 rows of data in it. now i want to identify which column was
clicked by user in runtime so i can query on that clicked value.
thanx in advance

VB6SP6
I have a transparent form.
There is nothing on the form to click, just a picture.
I would like to be able to click etc. what is under it.

I was going through some old code, and I found an old module that I
wrote that contains a pretty large percentage of the winsock api
declares - as well as conversions for several winsock macro's, and a
few utility functions.   One of the functions is VBStrFromAnsiPtr.  I

I'm using a small VB prgram to countdown to a specific date in time.
Currently my only means of carrying out this function is to use a timer
control and insert the following code:-
TextMinutes.Text = FormatNumber(24# * 3600 * (DateSerial(2008, 7, 1) - Now),

Hey guys!
I'm trying to delete a list of computers with VB6.
I'm using Excel 2003 as my frontend, and grab the list of computers from a
sheet there.

Can a Dynamic Array be passed and returned from a Function?
If not, what would be the workaround?
I have a Dynamic Array, one-dimension, of STRUC (DATASTRUC).
It contains records of price data.

Would someone point me at a snippet showing how to do a proper fast sort on a
linked list of strings?  yes strings.  and by proper i mean justified (or
whatever you would call it).  i.e. 22 comes before 219
I think I can figure out out to create the linked list sorted, but not

VB6SP6
Is there a way to set defaults as the class is instantiated such that the
defaults reflext the "way" the class is instantiated.
i.e. I do not want to have to remember to set a property.

Anyone knows of a simple expression parser implemented in VB6
(preferably as a class)?
I want to be able to evaluate simple arithmetic and boolean expressions.
rather than writing my own, I thought it would be best to ask in here first.

How to clean a MaskEdBox?
ControlName.Text = "" gives a error!
Is it read-only ?
Thanks!

Needed a faster routine to get the most common number in a particular column
of a 2-D array or in a 1-D array.
I had some code, but it was slow and as Olaf Schmidt's latest SQLite wrapper
now has the cSortedDictionary built

Here is a fragment of code in  a backup routine I am running
successfully  -- partly) for XP home.
strPath = "C:\Documents and Settings\Bloggs\My Documents\" 'source
BackupStr = "F:\My Documents\" ' the backup memory key

Currently, the error handling in my VB6 app is very unstructured - it
could be that I still haven't got my head around VB6 way of handling
errors. It just dosen't "feel right" at the moment - I keep feeling that
an error can "slip by" somehow, and crash my application.