VB Forum / General / September 2008

I have an application written in VB.Net which dynamically hosts VB6 ocx
(written in house).  The appilcation works fine on XP or Windows 2000.  It
also works fine on Vista if run in debug mode with the "Visual Studio hosting
process" selected.  But, when run as a compiled ...

What a file format is that and how can I get a number from it that
normal humans can read?

I have a VB 6 app that needs to have functionality to read in information
from a Visual FoxPro table.  One of the fields is in ASCII character format.  
Does anyone know of any functionality that will convert the ASCII character
to standard 'English' text?

VB6
Is there a way to get the vert scroll bar to accept a long for min, max and
value?
Is there another vertical control that will accept longs?

When start up VB6, you are presented with tabs to either create a NEW
project, load an EXISTING project, or from a RECENT project.
Under EXISTING, it seems to default to the VB6 directory. Is there a way to
change the default for EXISTING so that it points to a directory where I

Is there any way to search com ports for a piece of hardware by using the
hardware name? It is a barcode scanner and it's running on a virtual com
port. We know the name that is displayed in "My Computer" but would like to
automate the search for it. I have another question ...

Does anyone know if Australia produces any decent beer. I tried a can of
that VB stuff during a visit to my daughter and it stinks, as does all other
Australian produced beer I've tried. I did ask some people around the bar
but they just mumbled something about rattling my dags! ...

I have a collection of images joined in a single file. I have tried many
ways to separate these images until I discovered that they all begin
with a special head (some unreadable signs). It goes like this:
%§$%%§$%

Dialog box says:
Run-time error '-2147221494 (8004000A)';
"The specified driver doesn't exist"
I have a program I have been maintaining for many

After installing SP2 for Windows Server 2003, almost all of my services no
longer start. I am unable to start or modify any individual services
especially "RPC". I receive error 1068 when attempting to start a service.  I
also can't edit or modify any settings. For example, if I ...

I'm a high school student taking a visual basic class, and I'll be having
multiple questions on many subjects.  Is this the right newsgroup?
My main question is this.
When using Visual Basic Express, I've saved a program that I recently made(I

I did a fair bit of VB programming many years ago (>10) and have just
downloaded the free VB Express 2008. What I need is a good tutorial
(preferably in pdf format) or a good book that covers VB Express 2008 in
some depth but not aimed at the absolute beginner. Most of the ...

I have a grid in which cells are drawn. It's only 1 hWnd and 1 DC.
When I move over a cell, it is zoomed in step by step in a loop (it gets
bigger and bigger until it reached its final "zoomed" size which is 1.5x
its original size).

Sorry for the off topic however you all are so very knowledgeable and some of
you do have websites so:
I have a DSL line that is sort of OK speedwise.
I want to be able to support downloads of files.

I have a novice user question.
What are the different versions of Visual Basic 2005 and what is the
difference?  (for example my CD says its the Express edition)