VB Forum / General 2 / October 2003

I am writing an application in VB6.0 that will have the option to
select the language. For instance when Spanish is selected all the
text on the program interface will display in Spanish.
This is easy to do for the majority of the text on a form. I just put

Does anybody know if there is a free distribution of Visual Basic. The more
later version the better, of course. I would be grateful for a link or any
kind of info on that subject.
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I'm using a tool bar on a form that I also allow to be set as "Always On
Top" using the SetWindowPos API function in user32.dll.
My problem is that the tooltip text for the tool bars gets hidden behind the
form.  I have noticed that when first loaded, and before another window

I need to validate city and states to their corresponding zip codes.
However, this takes an extremely long time.  Here's what I've got:
1. A text file with over 41,000 zip codes, cities, & states in csv format
(zip,state,city), one set per line.

I have a big project group in Visual Basic 6 and I have last week upgraded
from Windows 2000 to Windows XP Professional. After the switch it takes a
very long time to start up the project group in Debug mode (1-2 minutes).
When I had my Windows 2000 machine it took between 10 and 20 ...

Does anybody know if Masked Edit Box control will work with ADO?
Thanks,
Ed H

If I use PrintForm to print a Form, only the part
visible on my monitor is printed.
Is it possible to get the whole Form on paper, including
the invisible part, using the PrintForm Method ??

Hi, all!
Is there a maximum number of characters that can be displayed in a SubItem
of a ListItem in a ListView?
I have a string of about 300 characters that I'm trying to throw in there,

when I was installing VB6 there was some sort of problem with installing the
MSDN. Now I need the MSDN installed bad.  When I go to use help it tells me
"the MSDN collection does not exist. Please reinstall MSDN".  how do I
reinstall MSDN?

Hello, I have a form that fits nicely centered on my screen.  About 640x480
resolution.  The form also contains a datagrid that takes up over half the
form.
I would like to have the grid auto-resize to the appropriate size relative

Is there an error that can be raised to replace IsNumeric?
Thanks!

Can anyone tell me why the following would cause a type
mismatch error?:
curYear = CLng(CStr(Right(Date, 4)))
It runs fine on my Development machine, and errors on one

With VB.NET, or Visual Fred the current thing, what future, if any, does
"classic" Visual Basic have?
Also, is VBA going to become VNETA, or has it done so already?

I am a vb6 beginner.
Please show me some detailed sample code to extract the date and possibly
resolution from a jpeg file.
thanks in advance

I have a VB6 application which I've added the code from the following to
make it look like an XP style app:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;309366
It now looks wonderful, the only problem being I have some Frames which have