VB Forum / General / May 2008

A colleague is developing an import routine that reads data from a CSV file and writes it
out to the database. The CSV has about 60 columns of data and the process uses split()
to get the data into an array for further processing, This was working fine until the file
started to ...

Page to send to printer (PDF/inkjet/whatever).
ScaleMode set to millimetres - accuracy of layout is fine.
Have had to introduce some coloured, block arrows on 2 charts with vertical
positioning set by their values.

Hello. I have a function that is something like this:
Function MyFilter(cmdButton)
   Dim p, sRetry
   sRetry = "Try again?"

This may sound a bit strange, but I have never had to do this before.  I
am creating a program which, among other things, allows deletion of a
directory.  I know that RmDir will delete an empty directory, but,
outside of finding the deepest sub-directory and deleting all the ...

I was wondering if it is possible to get alist of all the open files
in VBA? I need to display all the open documents (pdf, doc, xls, txt,
etc to the user).
If its not possible does anyone know how to get all the open office

I have a VB6 program which runs shell which runs another program which
in turn creates a file. As soon as I call the shell, I run a subroutine
which essentially pauses the main program for a few seconds whilst the
new file is created. I then use VB to open Word and read the newly ...

Changing a routine to register ActiveX dll's to work with DLLSelfRegister
instead of Shell
and I would like to know where I can find the meaning of the error returns.
I read somewhere that it is in Setup1, but not sure what or where that file

How do I do a multi-core app to use full power of processors cores?
VB 6 can do it?
Any articles?
or a multi-core programming is managed by OS? windows in this case...

I have a database in which i store bookings.
Lets say a person is booking a room from 1/1/2008 to 12/13/2008.
(english dates)
I have a grid in which i'm showning the booking.

Here we go again.  I seem to be a magnet for this type of thing.
I have a procedure with three Name statements in it. The first one names
a folder to a temporary name to get it out of the way and to allow
recovery if the next one fails, the second names a folder to the first

There is an option in VB6 to 'Break on all errors' or 'Break on unhandled
errors'. When debugging I have to switch from one to another frequently. Is
there a short cut key combinatinion to do that? Several mouse clicks are
required which is frustrating. Is it possible to build a ...

Looking for Visual Basic 2008  programmer with MS SQL Server 2005 and MS Access to work off-site on
small project.
Please send me an email to:
larryTAKEOUT@seldin.net

I have a procedure that gets executed continuously.  I dimension (DIM) 4
LONG and 4 Single variables in the procedure.
Would it be better to put them at module level rather than procedure level.
The procedure is reading an electronic device at a very fast rate and I am

I have a situation where I want to read the contents of a number  of  files
contained in a variable number of folders. The folder structure is:
C:\Prices
       Folder A

I am attempting for the first time to use the  shell statement.  I have the
following statement  that executes just fine using the OS RUN command, but
when I try to insert the statement  as  the argument in the shell statement
I get  a syntax error which highlights the portion of ...