VB Forum / General / November 2008

I am using the "Microsoft VBScript Regular Expressions 5.5" COM object in
VB6SP5 to search for a list of numbers in a CSV string (loaded from a file)
that is made up of 2-digit zero-filled numbers. The CSV string could contain
thousands of values.

I am in need of a function that can check several different strings to
see if they represent a correct date.
I have set up something but it is not exactly doing things right.
Does anyone know how to do this?

I have a 3rd party product which raises a number of events through
conventional class structures.
I have no difficulty in recognising these events.
Where my difficulty arises is in holding the VB6 routine while awaiting

A Microsoft blogger is running a poll for VB6 developers, asking
whether they are keeping their programs as VB6, or trying to convert
them to another language, or whatever. Seems to me it might be an
honest attempt to get in touch with their customers - anyway, voting

I'm using vb.net and I'm sorting several listview rows by the 1st column date
using a comparator sort routine. I'm sending this sorted info to a word
document. The listview sort results are correct but when I use a loop to
generate the item index(as below), the original unsorted ...

Any examples on how to do a SUDOKU on VB6?
Many thanks!

How do I capture when the items in a menustrip are reordered, as allowed in
the AllowItemReorder property?
Thanks,
Doug

We have an application written in VB6.  I didn't write the orginal
application just do fixes etc on it as VB is not my first programing
language.
I have the following code.  The user can select a default printer to use

I can not manage to display a line(via Line Control) over a picturebox.
Does anybody know how I can do this?
I know I can also use Picture1.Line but I want to use a Line Control
instead.

I have a code working on a virtual PC.
on my dev environement it doesn't working from a specific point:
Call oScomp.Fields.Content(oXML, lRootElement)
the whole function is:

From VB6, can i set font attributes of NOTEPAD?
(I launch a numeric report text from my vb6 app, and i want Courier /10 font)

I have a VB6 app running under Vista with UAC Turned ON so my app is
running as standard user. Now I want to perform a system level task
like associating my application with a file type which require Admin
rights.

         I want to write a program that append the data input in a
textbox one by one . When the User input text e.g. 123456 into the
textbox. Then write it to a file or somewhere else. Finally, let the
user to save all the data that have been entered to a file with

I am not sure if the following is possible or my mental fog is
especially dense today.
I have a series of text boxes where I can input variable names.
I want to be able to use these variable names to assign their values

I like to get the properties .Top and .Left of a form before the user makes
the form minimized.
What event should I take?
I tried Resize, LostFocus and Paint but all of them do do fire BEFORE the