VB Forum / Controls / July 2008

Is there a way to change the dull gray that is the background color of
datagrid control?  I know I can change the backcolor property for the text
box portion of the grid, but how about the grid itself?
Mark

I have created a ActiveX control to use with an application.  I create
the .ocx file and in the Component tab of the end application I add
the ocx file into the toolbar.  When I make a change to the ActiveX
control and re-create the ocx file and open the end project VB

I'm dealing with Visual Basic 6.0 and want to know what's the limit to the
total number of items (ie. total rows) that the 16-bit listbox control can
store? I've heard some conflicting answers (65535, 32768, 32767, and even
just 65535 total storage bytes - meaning that you're ...

I made a activex in which I used MSComm control to communicate through COM1.
I found my control cannot work properly when I only adopt mycontrol .ocx
file like this:
<object id="myctl" classid="clsid:09464551-94D1-4F46-9B86-AD50405068B6"

I have created a new form project in VB 2008 express, and added a data-source
pointing to a simple mdb file on my local hard drive at C:/DelMe (outside my
project).
If I open the data using the database explorer (rather than the datasource

I have a project in vb.net 2005 and it works with a database in SQL server
2005. in this project I prepared a query builder for user like something in
Access. the user can make the queries that he/she wants, for example he/she
wants all the rows that they "name" field is "John", ...

After adding component Microsoft Forms 2.0 object library, on placing of any
object pertaining to this component i.e MS forms 2.0 object library, in the
form, it returns an error which reads like this.
System error &H8007007E(-2147024770)

I'am a beginner in Visual Basic 6.0. Now I try to write a ActiveX control
that is in charge of communication through COM1. So I decided to adopt
MSComm control.
   I draged a button onto the usercontrol.Then I wrote some statements in

I'm using VB6 and have written an ActiveX control in my VB project.  It is
quite small but has 66 picture boxes (using a control array) on it, however
only 1 of them is ever visible at anyone time - the main picture boxes
'picture' property is changed to a picture from one of the ...

I am running a program in both VB6.0 or VB 2008, and I am running into a lot
of round-off error due to my sets of data.  In some occasions, I get the
data to be all in the same of order of magnitude, where all is fine, and
other times, the data have really different orders of ...

I need some suggestion on how to run a non Microsoft App in a VB form? I'm
trying to combine couple applications to run in one single form window so
that it looks like one program. In the form there will be button to choose
the view of different application. Can someone provide help ...

I am using VB6, and I have two functions that they basically take the same
arguments.  The number of arguments is indefinite, so I am using the
ParamArray option.  However, when I send argument into a function, and that
function sends it out to another one, the program crashes ...

I want to dump all the properties of a control in the debug window.
How can I list the properties without naming them ? (example:
text1.backcolor)
VB6

how can i send a ping to server with vb6 and winsock and check if its
arriven or not??

how can i send a ping to a server and chceck if its arriven or not?
(with vb6