VB Forum / General / July 2008

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I'm currently taking a VB.NET class at my local technical college, and
we have an assignment to write a paper on the adoption of VB.NET 2005
around the world.   I have searched endlessly for references to use,
but haven't found anything that is very useful.

Just reinstalled msdn(98) for vb6 on the box i moved visstudio6 to
I used to have a shortcut to open just msdn (in lieu of being in ide and
hitting f1 or help)
Now I can't remember where the exe is hiding (and i don't think it was

I want to give my application users the ability to dial up their ISP from
within the application.  That is, when they select an option that requires
internet access, when my app discovers there is no Internet connection, it
will automatically start the DUN screen so the user can ...

I have an access database that has a field (type memo) that keeps very
long strings. When the value of this field is very long, my Visual
Basic 6.0 code does not return the whole value and truncates it. I
just read it using standard code like this:

Is there a way to generate a return code that my VB6 app can pass to the OS.
I like to call my VBapp from a DOS-Batch file(.bat) and when my VBapp ends I
like to pass a return code so that the following IF ERRORLEVEL statement in
the batchfile can branch in case a problem arised.

I created a code using regular expressions and when I try to add the
option
regex.IgnoreCase = True
I get the error 7 out of memory.

I am using a MsFlexGrid Control to display 10 columns of info in VB5.
Several of the columns need to be wider than the others to display all of
the info in them.  
How can I change the column width with code so that when the control is

I am struggeling with the PAINT events.
When I have autoredraw set to TRUE, VB6 handles the image and redraws it
when needed.
I learnt that this is no good programming, and that I should manage the

How to create .reg file which will add a string value to the existing key,
without replacing the whole key?
Jack

I have a project in vb.net 2005. in this project I want an array of
controls, for example, an array of text box. in vb6 when you put a text box
on a form, then copy and paste it on the same form, a message appeared that
ask you "do you want to create array of that text box?" and ...

Hello, here is an easy one.
I have a collection of file names.
I would like to check if a name exists, before adding it in.
Now I currently do not have a key.  But there are 2 ways I can think of

We have a complex VB6 project with several 3rd party components.
What happens is that if canceling the program in the IDE or starting the
program again after one successfull run the IDE crashes.
Any suggerstions ?

Perhaps someone knows the answer to these.
1)  If I create an ActiveX control using VB6, can I use it in a VC6 project?
2) If the answer to 1 is 'Yes', are there any special precautions I need to be aware of?
I have a VC6 program that I wrote back in 2003 that is an embeddable OLE ...

I have a project in vb.net 2005.I want user to being asked when he/she wants
to exit from the project, for example by asking:"Are you sure you want to
quit?". the problem is I didn't find any way to ask this question when the
user click the "×" button in the window's control box. ...