VB Forum / General / April 2008

Now every time I run VB it goes off telling me it's configuring VS2008. It
gives me a nice dialog saying 6 seconds remaining. From my past experience I
know that MS has designed their own unit of time which is pretty much
unrelated to an earth second, so I went and made a coffee. ...

OK, the latest thing is to provide 'automatic' update capability for
software (everyoen seems to do it from Firefox to Adobe to MSFT to...
well, virtually everyone).
This is a feature that is easy to implement in my VB6 applications-

I am simutaneously writing 2 reports using the printer object that I would
like to keep separate from each other even though they are using the same
printer (PDF files actually).
I have a loop (repeated 3x) that within it writes 2 different reports

Presently I generate HTML, write it to a file and then display it in my
app via the web browser control.
Is there a way to bypass writing to disk and just pass the browser my
string of html?  Or a better way to do this?

I'm totally new to programming, by today's standards. I quit programming
when MS BASIC PDS 7.1 (QuickBASIC) and VisualBasic 3.0 were just coming out.
heh
My question is this. I have a set of programs that are used for digital

How can I achieve this in VB?
I'm using VB.Net 2005.  I have a framework that auto-generates a lot
of non-arrayed variables with a consistent naming scheme, like:
float1, float2, ... float24

I have a 3rd party program that accepts a text file as input.
The 3rd party software provider said to launch the program
with the file name as an argument (at least that's what I
understood).

VB6SP6
Other than a Dictionary, what is the fastest object/method to do all of the
following:
1) store a Key and Item (all alphanumeric strings)

Does anyone know of a way to activate "Winhelp" on Windows Vista from a VB6
application.
Microsoft supposedly stopped the "Winhelp" executable running on Vista but I
was wondering if there was a way to start it by setting XP compatibilty mode

VB6SP6+
On one PC in the Project Right Click Menu I have Add UserControl, Add File,
More ActiveX Designers
On another PC with the same VB6SP6+ it is all missing.

Is there a way to establish if VB6 code is running in the IDE.  I need to
control some aspects of the VB6 legacy application when it's running in the
IDE.
Thanks

I am new VB Programming and wanted to know how to split a simple
string into two different strings after certain number of characters
If Len(Terms) > 10000 Then
   SPLIT INTO TWO Strings here

In VB6 I can change the mouse pointer when hovering over a contol (for
example - a picture box), but how do I get it to revert to the original
pointer when the mouse pointer moves off of this control.  The only way I
can think of is to put the picure box into another control (say ...

Is this the proper use of Static keyword?
Function SomeCollection() As Collection
   Static colRtn As Collection
 If colRtn Is Nothing Then

I have a dll ('dll-X') which runs on top of (dependent upon) several
other dlls.
My build environment has a folder structure
binaries