VB Forum / General 2 / October 2003

  i am using vb and excel to export orders to excel sheets.the data
is in access database.
i have 7 records and right now they are being exported to seven
different excel work files(workbooks).

Anyone have an api call to rename a file (long file name) without resorting
to using the shell command?

How do you create objects like buttons and labels
with only code for example when you dont know how much buttons you need but
you can callculate it when teh programm runs and the program make the
buttons.

I am running VB6 with the latest updates on an XP Home
Edition with the latest updates. I am getting a compile
error I cannot find.
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how do i send and recieve cell values between vb6 and excel. please supply a
sample
thanx

I am well versed with the concept of interfaces but not VB6's implementation
of them, and I'm trying to figure out how to do something I think should be
easy
say I have a class A which has a public method a1 and this class also

Does anyone know a workaround for the CurDir$ function?  I
have read in the knowledge base that its unreliable.  So
true!
I'm using VB6 on Win2000 or XP.

Someone can help me?
While debugging step by step may applicaction, at the end
of a sub appears the message windows "Ther's no source
code available for current position". After this

If i show a form using vbModal, is there a way to get the caption bar
to flash until the form is clicked on?
The only way I can get around this is by manually flashing the bar on
a timer until i trap a control or form MouseDown, which would stop the

I made a large Visual Basic file, which runs fine.
However, when I tried to make an .exe file, after running
for a long time, I received the folowing message.
Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 6.00.8168

All,
I am using VS Studio 2002,  I am trying to pass a form between
projects(dlls) of the same solution. Is this possible? For the life of
me I cannot reference the form.  I keep getting circular refrence

hi, i was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of some good
information on making usercontrols, i have not found any.
and please dont redirect me to pscode.com, they just have examples, i am
looking for stuff like tutorials

Just looking for a bit of advice.
A colleague was finding that he was getting a error 7, out of memory, when
doing a redim preserve operation on an array of a user defined type.
The type consisted of 12 fixed length strings varying in length from 50 to

I m new to programming in VB. I have heard about that we can conevrt
an exe file which is created in VB or by VB compiler. If any one know
about this then tell me.

I have VB.net and i made a trivial program then compiled it. It runs fine,
but when I copy it to my kids PC it errors out right away. (00135 error).
Do i need some run time files on the target machine?
Any help would be appreciated.