VB Forum / General / September 2008

I have a few applications (VB6) that perform some
daily action. In a table (SQL Server) I have a field
'LastDayUpdated' in which I keep the number of the
day that this action was executed.

In my project I use the downloaded System Information, but when the form
appears it is mostly at the top left, can I set the position of this form may
be
vbmodal of my top form?

This may be a crazy question but here goes!
I have an ASP.NET application that will run on my Intranet. I need to know
what workstation the app is being run at in order to determine where printed
output should be directed. In other words, the app will print to 3 different

Somehow, someway I got a Visio toolbar on my VB6 IDE.
I cannot find a way to kill it off permanently.
Anybody know how to rid the IDE Visio Toolbar of this?

I have Visual Studio 2008 Standard edition.  I have 13 remote sites
which are running SQL Server 2005 Express Edition.  I was wondering, is
it possible with either Visual Basic or Visual Web, for me to connect to
those remote servers and find out the current size of a database on ...

Everytime I make changes on my app I find several OBJ files.
What can they be used for?Are they trash?

HOW CAN ADD DATABASE INTO VB 6 PROJECT SOLUTION ?SORRY NO THREAD PLACE FOR
VB6 DIRECT !
Dear Sir,
I'm coding a VB 6 Proffessional and my data base can not be added into

Hey people,
I've got an application written in VB6 SP6 - been in production since 2000.  
I want to upgrade to VB.NET but years ago I tried having VB6 and VB.NET (I
think ver 1.1) on the same box and it broke my VB6 Code.

So how would I do a replace if I used this function proviided by Rick?
This function finds the start, but how do I find the end of Pattern to know
what to extract?
Function AmbiguousFind(TextString As String, Pattern As String) As Long

Is it my imagination that after all these years of Windows the BootLog.txt
did not get any better. I have a system that seems to have a bad driver for
it always reboots. I have used msconfig to set /Bootlog /sos but when I look
at the log it only tells me the last driver that ...

My project is password protected. The password is written to the registry
under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings I am using XP if
the target machine is using Vista will this still work?
When the program is loaded you have to enter the correct password to be ...

Hi, I was a user of Visual C# for a while and have gotten used to the
Intellisense for that program. I went to try Visual Basic, and the
intellisense is so much different. I'll try to make an example:
Say I want to write: MessageBox.Show("Hi there")

VB6
I like Like but it does not tell me where the match is.
I like Instr but it does not allow wildcards etc.
I am studying RegEx but so far I cannot find the basics I need.

VB6
How do I know when winsock has received all the incoming ?
I do
 Winsock1.SendData

What is the proper way of checking the computer's system time?
Using Time() and checking for AM/PM presence or is there a better way?
Your thoughts appreciated,
Jack