VB Forum / General / March 2008

I've a problem with a program that I'm writing that is using the COM-
port a lot. By pressing different buttons the program sends different
commands (via a Sub send_data(msg)) to a device and then reads the
response. The problems is that it can take seconds for a response to

There are so many Windows Common Controls in my reference list... which
one should I chose over the other?
I need a TreeView, Slider, StatusBar, ImageList and ProgressBar.
Thank you.

I like to know the possibilities of calling a function in the MFC
AppWizard DLL from VB ActiveX DLL.
First i created Both VC++ DLL and a wrapper VB ActiveX DLL which in
turn call the VC++ DLL fuction.

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VB against C# (.net)?
Is .net a failure?
Pascal and Delphi rising up!

I have a string that has the following format:
name,description, type, minval, maxval,[..,..];
i.e. it is a semi comma separated string of comma separated values
The last field is optional, in that it may be absent. If it present,

Does anyone have a code snippet that illustrates how to iterate though a
directories subfolders - changing directories into each sub folder
encountered, and 'processing' each file with a specified extension (e.g.
*.txt)?

I would like to know if there is any reason why I should not change the
extension of an Access MDB?
I have valuable data in it and since Access MDBs cannot really be
protected, I am looking for ways to disguise it.

I am filling dbf file using vb 6.0, but before i filled i delete all data,
using fox provider, but the records are not deleted just marke for delete, in
fox you can use pack for delete marked records
What can i do?

If a sub is defined as this:
Case 1 (default params)
========
Sub Foo(byval a as Integer, optional byval s as string="abc", optional

I have written a VB class whose purpose is to periodically perform a
(user specified) task after a set time interval.
I want to have a method on the class, that allows me to set the callback
function, so that the user provided function can be called when the

I use the following code to get the facename (font.name) of a TrueType font
from its .ttf file and it works fine. However, when I use the same code on a
.ttc file (a font file that contains more than one facename, such as
Cambria.ttc) it returns only the first facename in the  ...

im trying to use mscomm32.ocx to detect if a switch has been
activated.
The electronics guys soldered a switch (with a pullup resistor and
battery) to pin #2 (data 0) and pin #18 (ground).

It's official.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbrun/ms788708.aspx
Next stop Win 7?

I've been playing with the MSFlexGrid (V 6.) control and have a few
questions that I have not been able to figure out.
The table has one fixed row (the headings)
I'm building a table using the AddItem Method

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