VB Forum / General / May 2008

Hello again,
can I store additional info about a file in its "header" (like "author",
"modified at", etc) so that it doesn't affect the file in any way? Until
now I always included a .txt file holding this information, but I feel a

when I have 2 RECTs named r1 and r2, what is the difference between
r1 = r2
and
LSet r1 = r2

I was wondering if someone could help me. I have a program which does
some calculations using an algorithm and returns 15 possible results
into a Listbox. Now as it does that, I want it to calculate the
largest value found, and highlight that line in the listbox.  But once

...or generating random Longs, whatever.
I am unsure if I have a flawed code fragment or if I am running into
the oft-mentioned shortcomings of VB's PRNG (psuedo-random number generator)
I have a function designed to return a random integer from within the

I want to get my email from a hotmail account and forward it to another
email account. So far I have not been able to find any information on how to
do this from hotmail, as they do not use POP3.
I have tried searching google for "hotmail", "retrieve email" and several

I wondered if there's VB code to test whether a user has registered an
object?
I.E. When you're in VBA  for example you can go Tools>References and
you'll have a list of checkboxes where you can get a reference to an

I have been installed vb6 in vista, but it have been installed with some
errors. now I can use vb6, but some of it's components don't work properly,
what can I do? does it have any solution?

I had a similar situation the other day,  received a solution from this
forum and thought I understood what I  was told.  Apparently not.  I have
the following statement:
Shell ("copy ""C:\finance\mutual fund investments\get prices\AGGPrices.csv""

in vb6, I want to have a list box that when the user type a letter, the list
box goes to the item that is starting with that letter. we have like this in
vb6 itself. for example when we type "me" and then ".", a list of elements
appear and when you start to type, it goes to the ...

Which is the best newsgroup for Visual basic 2008?
Thanks,
Steve

I created an Edit control using CreateWindowEx (and subclassing) and all is
nice apart from some issues with keyboard input focus:
(1) The control does not seem to participate in the Tab order. While I can
leave it using the TAB key, I can never get back into it. It is just ...

What would be the best way to determine the difference
in number of weeks.
For example, if I have 48/2007 and 13/2008...
intFromFiscalWk = 48

How can I translate the following C++ code to VB6?
#define SS_DEFINE_GUID(name, l, w1, w2, b1, b2, b3, b4, b5, b6, b7, b8) \
static const GUID DECLSPEC_SELECTANY name \
= { l, w1, w2, { b1, b2,  b3,  b4,  b5,  b6,  b7,  b8 } }

Is it available on the internet? I searched but couldn't find it.

i need to download vb software can any body send link to download the
vb software(free).
i am new to the vb can any one explain how to start vb(explain).
Regards,