VB Forum / General / July 2008

Can anyone tell me why the setup.exe for a vb6 program won't install on
windows 2000 or server 2000. I used the packager that comes with vb6.
Everytime I try to install it tells me that it has to update files and that
I need to reboot. I doesn't matter how many times you reboot. ...

Hi Folks --
I just wanted to be sure about something, so I wrote up a little test...
  Option Explicit
  Private Sub Command1_Click()

Hi all. I have written a fairly large VB program and I would like it to be
able to run as a "stand alone" exe, or at least as "stand alone" as you can
get with VB6. I do realise that the VB6 runtime itself will be required, but
knowing that the runtime is present by default on ...

We have a page that we prefer people click a Cancel button to cancel the
process.  However, some users just shut down the browser.
Is there a way to trap a browser shut down event and run the Cancel button
code instead?

version: vb6
Need to write fixed length records to a text file.
e.g.
Open "C:\MyFile.txt For Random as #1 Len = Len(myUDT)

What is the best way to activate menu items like Cut, Copy, Paste, Undo, and
Redo?
Should each of my textbox controls have an event that looks for some text
being selected? That seems cumbersome, especially if I get into my MDI

I am running an vb application which saves different files
(word,excel,tiff,jpeg,etc...)
while opening the files from my vb application, i have to disable the print
option of that particular file to the user.

I have a problem.
I have many forms which shall cause the app to quit if they are closed.
The important thing for me is that 1 form is closed at last. It's called
"frmContainer", and it holds several controls that do stuff on other

I have created a DLL in VB6.0 and I am referencing it in my MS Access
program, Excel & Power Point add-ins.
Every time I create the DLL, I need to deselect reference and add it again
in all of my 3 programs as it considers DLL to be a different version.

I have a shared folder on a remote computer(say computer name:COMP01).
When i try opening this folder it asks for the username and password.
I want to automatically login and access the shared folder using
Visual Basic 6.0.

I have a login routine where I turn on numlock to avoid login errors due to
this not being turned on.
This makes sense on the great majority of machines where there is a numeric
keypad. It is no good though

I am familiar with using Get and Seek to read data from binary files and
I've seen examples of using the Put statement to enter material.  I was
wondering how one would delete a record / data from a binary file?
Thanks

Hello newsgroup!
I have spent the whole day trying to recreate an image that I've seen.
This image uses beziers to create a "swirl".
For those who are willing to help, here is the image I'm talking about:

Is there some easy way to save and restore all the data on a form?
What code do I need to find all data fields?
I'm thinking like the following air code...
SaveForm frmPmain

my sp takes datetime in 'yyyyMMdd HH:mm:ss' format.
however my c# datetimepicker takes 'dd/MM/yy HH:mm:ss' format.
how do i convert/parse the datetime value from the datetimepicker to the sp
datetime format ?