VB Forum / General 2 / September 2003

The validate event does not fire when i click on a sspanel
control. The lostfocus event is fired but the validate
event does not.

Anyone know when Service pack 6 for Visual Studio 6 is due out?
I know SP 6 is/was in beta testing.

Hi all i am writing a small program and what i need to do is have some code
that will do the following:
   When i press a key within a text box it will type that letter/number in
and then move to the next text box in the tab order.

I have a problem. I'm using a dataset in VB.NET with multiple tables with
relations between them. I would like dataset to update to all related tables
with right identity, when certain record is added.
The problem is that I don't know how to do it, when I'm not using stored

I've created a bunch of standard forms with some stuff in it blabla. Now I
want all teh forms in 1 main form. So If I move/minimize or close the form,
all it's children forms need to be changed as well. And also, instead of
lot's of icons in the Windows Menu bar for every form, I ...

Does anyone have code for a simple ceiling function? Thanks.

Another question for today, does Visual Basic 6 provides overloading? I
looked around in the help and in some books but I couldn't find it, maybe VB
uses another name for it. With overloading I mean using the same
function/procedure name more than once but then with different ...

I am using VB5 and a USB-to-comm converter device. When I
close the port (using PortOpen=False) on exiting the
program and then re-start the program and open the comm
port, I always get the message "port already open".

I created a simple web sevice (the default Hello World)
in VB.NET 2003. I can run this web service without
problem using IE. But when I try to add a reference to
this ws from a VB.NET 2003 windows app

Is there a simple way to replace/remove multiple strings?  I need to
remove all instances of ' , \ / - within a field.  Or do I have to use
the Replace function for each one?  Thanks!

I have been attempting to search this Newsgroup, using
the "Subject" and the "Body Text" options.  Every attempt
results in a "System Error. Contact Site Administrator"
error message.

I have an established program that I am changing to allow users to select
one of eight languages and have all the label captions change accordingly.
I have no problems with English, French, Dutch, German, Spanish or Italian.
The Polish language is causing me trouble.

I'm writing an application that make measurements in 4 seconds
interval. I do this with a 500 ms timer and I count for 8 periods of
that timer. The result often ends up by 4,0 - 4,2 seconds, and 4,2
seconds is a bit to much to accept. I developed the program on a win2k

Hello group,
I am having this very weird problem w/ commondialog control or the
GetOpenFileName API.
I'll post my relevant code and then explain the problem.

i have a combo box (style=2Dropdown List) filled with some data from
DB. when i change righttoleft property (true) at runtime first element of
combo is replaced with combo box name.
how can i overcome this problem?