VB Forum / Controls / December 2003

How do I show the property pages dialog during run time for the MSComm control?  I want to allow the user to set the MSComm properties, e.g., baud, parity, bits, etc.  I want to give the user access to this dialog by clicking a command button on a form.  So what statement should ...

The goal is to change to Plus/Minus State Buttons of a Treeview control and customize them to meet the GUI of the application it is in. I found the API call on MSDN that will do this for me but it fails to work as they state it will.
Below is my code, assuming that there is a ...

Need a small help. I have never created an ActiveX Control. My
problem is that i need to create a simple ActiveX plugin for IE. This
ActiveX has to load a temporary file in memory(or Execute an Exe which
does the loading work)  whenever i open IE on the client machine. Can

I am using a Micorsoft datagrid.  Bringing up the
properties by right-clicking the grid (under the tab
format) I have turned on word wrap for a particular cell,
however; when the data is displayed in the cell no word

I use shell execuete from within visual basic 6 to go to a web page, I
would like to trap the mouse down and key down event while on the
web page.
The user clicks on a text box on the web page and press ctrl v and I

I am using a winsock control to send email using my vb
program.  Is it possible to send attachments this way?  If
so, how can I do that?  Thanks in advance!

Could someone tell me how to change fontsize in the Vb
Project Explorer and other VB dialog boxes

I am attempting to automate the WebBrowser control.  I am trying to get it
to step through several pages of a search result.
Each page returned from ASP.NET contains anchors with links to each of the
resulting pages:

Is there a method to toggle hide/show columns in lv?
I know about the remove methods but they dont do what I
want.
Oeyvind

I have a product that uses DBGRID32.OCX. It has been in
use for several years under Win98, WinNT, WIN2000 and
WinXP with no problems reported.
Some customers are now reporting that it fails under

I have a 4 column DataGrid control. The first 3 columns are string
fields. The last column is a boolean field.
I have 2 questions
1) how do i prevent the user from changing/updating information in the

How can you determine if the user clicked on a listview
on a blank row.  I have put checkpoints in my code and
the hover baloon contains this information:
lvPieces.SelectedItem = Nothing

I am working on a Treeview which works like this :
---------------------BEGINS----------------------
Private Sub TreeView1_BeforeLabelEdit(Cancel As Integer)
   Dim Animals As Node

Is it possible to create an always-on-top floating
toolbar in a VB6 application. The user wants to minimize
the main window but leave a toolbar on the desktop and
move it to a position out of the way. The toolbar buttons

I have some sample code that uses Winsock to send
email in a vb program.  Since I am a beginning programmer,
I can't seem to figure out how to get this control into my
program.  Where does one get this from?