VB Forum / General / April 2008

I must say that my first visit to this group today was a blazing
disappointment.  I cannot believe what I am seeing.  Mike W. and Bill, the
both of you are going to single handedly drive this forum right into the
ground in your silly attempts to undermine each other -- and make ...

I am trying to create a word document from a vb.net 2005 program.
I have not been able to find the system.io.packaging namespace. It does not
show up in intellisense. Am I missing something, or is there an updated
download somewhere, or what?

I did some VB programming about 12 years ago, got as far as VB 4.0.  I'm now tinkering
again with VB and having problems opening an Access database.  I've tried several suggestions
offered by various people, but nothing helps so far.  I have built a web page to describe my
efforts.. ...

Is it possible to write 64 bit application using vbasic5/6?
Jack

I don't know whether anyone from Microsoft regularly reads the Visual Basic
groups but if they do then I am very surprised that they permit one of their
own MVPs to engage in such outrageous long term trolling activities in one
of their own public newsgroups, such as the activity ...

I have Unicode files with Japanese characters. I need to convert them
to Shift-JIS. How can I do that?
Thanks,
Greg

The proper way to handle silly/off topic discussions is to:
1. If extreme, report them to the folkes at MSFT that run these groups.
2. Put the offending parties in your ignore list, and filter out the
messages, if

I have 3 forms:
Form1 > button (click)
Form2 loads > button (click)
Form3 loads

Figured I'd give this a new thread.
What I've start tonight is a simple program that will read the open
Minesweeper program and recreate the state of them game on a VB form.  Since
Minesweeper has no objects that create it's interface, everything has to be

I am planning on purchasing a new laptop.  I imagine I will have to
get it with Vista.  I have VB6 student edition.
One of the projects I have in mind would involve turning my whole
screen display sideways so I can view an entire 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of

While trying to download email attachments from my hotmail account the
download either hits 99% and hangs or it gets to verify and hangs.  I tried
to download from other sites, Microsoft for example, with the same problem.  
I let it sit for awhile but nothing happens.  I then ...

VB 4.0
I have a form with 1 label and 1 timer.  All coding is within the Timer.  The Timer is fired
every 10 seconds.  I want to use a global variable to hold the time the Timer was first
fired.  I've read the Global Help, have tried naming a variable as "Global" in the General,

Let's say I have an IM client (ICQ, messanger, etc.) open and
running.
I know the port on which it transmits data.
Can I somhowe monitor and read the data this app transmits\receives

Hello, can somebody give me a hint what I'm doing wrong...
I am trying to set a Font to a DC, but something strange happens: The
font is set correctly, but all fonts on other controls change to some
strange system font...

Is there a common/standard naming convention for variables in Delphi?  I'm
noticing that Hungarian (or any variation of it) doesn't seem to be common
in most of the examples I've seen, although most of them are sort of along
the same lines.  Can someone perhaps provide a link to ...