VB Forum / Controls / November 2003

is it possible to design a user control which can be saved
an accessed as a dll file?
Thanks and regards,
Patrick

I would like to be able to use the virtual listbox VLIST in a VB project
but the DLL that VLIST is compiled as is not able to be referenced by
vb6.  How can this be ported to be used in vb?
Thanks,

I am currently trying to shell to internet explorer in visual
basic with
windows XP and 2000??
The following works for 95/98 but does not in XP or 2000

I've got a FlexGrid that the sorting does not seem to
work.  I'm trying to sort on a date field.  I populate
the field in the grid with the following code:
flexgridfield = CDate(Format(rs

How can I increase the horizontal spacing between items in a TreeView ?
Thanks.

I am running VB6. When I insert an imagelist and toolbar
and then save and exit the program then reopen it, both
the toolbar and the imagelist are converted to
pictureboxes after a bunch of errors of it not being able

I'm looking for a really simple grid control which I intend to populate
from an array
Max 50 Rows by 50 Cols
Resizing headers

I am running Microsoft Access 2000 and Visual Basic 6.0 on
my Millennium system.
I have an Access database for my library with 256 records.
Each record has several columns for book titles, authors,

at the moment i´m making a little program in VB and i´m working with comboboxes. Problem is, al my fields have that "flatten" look.. not that 3D stuff... but i can´t get my comboboxes to look the same.. can anyone tell me how to do that? know it´s a newbie question, but I can´t ...

Can anybody enlighten me on what event initializes an ActiveX control's
properties?
I am developing an activeX control and is testing it in a client
application.

    Got a small problem! I am developing 2 active x controls,
one control I did in a different project and got all the
functionality that I thought I needed  so then I added the
project to another project which contains another active x

Ok. I place a button on a form, and set the picture
properties to a bitmap. Then test it. No picture on the
button. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks

How can I prevent VB from changing the path of a control in the .VBP file?
It always changes the path to reflect the correct location on my local
machine (replacing another correct representation while doing so), but our
compile server doesn't know a thing about the new path.

I have code for a macro to automatically send an email in Outlook.
What I'm looking to do is to specify which outgoing email service I
want to use (I receive and send via two email addresses with different
POP and SMTP servers in my Outlook setup).  As an alternative, if I

I am writing a line to a text file
File.Write "Menu_" & Combo1.Text & ".mst" & "                  " &
Checkbox(Check11.Value) & vbNewLine
Combo1.Text Differs in length, but I want all that is written in that line