VB Forum / General / July 2008

I get an error message when I try to compile an exe using VB6.0, "License
information for this component not found. You do not have an appropriate
license to use this functionality in the design environment (Error 429)".  
This is because I have not registered an ActiveX control. ...

VB6SP6
I am using the API to open a file to read.
It works properly on 99.9% of the files I use it on.
Once in a while I run into a file that it will not open for reading.

I am trying to compile an app that does not have controls/dlls installed.
I have an app that can run 3 different ways.  The app can interface with 2
different types of specialized hardware or it also can run with no hardware
connected.  Based on the hardware type or no hardware my ...

When I start a VB6 proejct, the list of available references contains
several DUPLICATE entries.
These are as a result of me developing a DLL, and testing it, and creating
different versions during testing.

Hi, how do I crop a jpg 2000x1000 px to 800x600px or less? Because the files
are more than 2MB and I need to reduce it!
Thank you very much!

Can any one throw some light on migration project effort estimation.
Is there any tool available that estimates this effort.
I have to convert from vb6 to visual studio 2008..
Any suggestions would be appreciated..

I'm working on a little project that requires lightweight string encryption
and I found this: http://www.devx.com/tips/Tip/5676  which seems to be a
fast and small xor encryption algorithm. It works fine based upon the
example, but if I dump the encrypted string into a textbox ...

How can I continue a SQL Serever call in a Visual Basic Sub Procedure???
I have this syntax...
   .Open "SELECT   Table1.Column1 _
                   , RTrim(LTrim(Table2.Column1)) _

A client has a need for something I've just never done.
It doesn't seem like it should be too difficult, but I'm unsure
of where to start.  I've not done much at all with Excel.
I have some data, in a string, in the form of [a portion of] a CSV file,

'\\\\\\\\\\'MICROSOFT EXCEL 97 VISUAL BASIC EDITOR'//////////
I am trying to create at runtime. I can create a control at runtime, but I
can't get the control that was created at
runtime to execute any code for example see below

I'm using the "Microsoft DataGrid 6.0" component (msdatgrd.ocx) and allowing
the user to delete rows in the grid by clicking a Delete command button. The
DataSource of the grid is a disconnected recordset. I loop through the
selBookmark collection and delete each selected row. ...

In VB6 the textbox can hold up to 65536 characters. Is there a box/dll
that comes with VB6 that does not have this limit?
Bu

I'm looking for a way to not show the full path to a directory in a
dirlistbox. In other words, it should only show the relative path to the
directory I default it to be. We want users to only see "their" directory and
nothing above that.

I have a macro stored in Worksheet A that opens another file (Worksheet B).  
I would like to put the path and filename of Worksheet B inside Worksheet A,
so that it's not hidden in the Macro.  How can I reference the worksheet path
& filename in Worksheet A from the Macro?

I know how to do it in VB6, I have code snippets coming out my ears for VB6,
but with the new framework in Visual Studio 2005, how do you get/put from a
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If I attempt to use a VB6 snippet in Studio 05 it whinges about using the