VB Forum / General 2 / October 2003

How do I make the main menu bar (i.e. File, Edit, View etc) appear in
3D (i.e. raised with a line around the edge of the bar) as it is for
example in Word. I am using VB6.
Thanks,

Can somebody please tell me how to add a share on my local PC using
VB? so that my other computer can connect and download files.
I know it is possible to send/recive files using winsock the connect()
and so. But I want to use share...

I am using TX Text Control for rich text formatting in a VB application.
Does anyone know if it is possible to add up two formatted texts?  Right
now, I have two text boxes, post the text in Box #2 then append it to text
in Box #1.  But I am looking for a way to add these texts ...

We have a VB6 component that runs in MTS.  The component
writes a message to the event log whenever it is
instantiated.  It also writes a message when the class is
terminated.  

Hi all..
I've got a question, you all know the compression programs like WinZip and
WinRAR. With those programs you can select a couple of files in a directory
and add them directly to an archive without first starting the program and

I have 2 "complete beginner" questions. And I'm using .NET Studio 2003.
1st: I heard that if I create a program with VB.NET, users of older windows
(Win95 to WinMe) won't be able to execute it. Is it right or the question is
the same with every vb program; if the user have the ...

I am a newbie, I have a project that askes for the name of the most pieces
produced by an employee to be displayed when you click the calculate button.
Ok here is is , I have the following text boxes and labels, txtName, and
txtQuanity, and a label lblEarnedMost. A name is entered ...

Hello.  I'm a long-time programmer who's learning Windows and VB.NET, and as
part of that enterprise, I've written a little app that synchronizes the
system time to that of a NIST time server.
I'd like only a single instance of the program to run -- that is, if an

When I run the VB5 Application Setup Wizard I get the
message that comdlg32.ocx is out of date.
I have both VB5 and .Net on this machine, but have not
seen this message in the past.

For on or an other reason i couldnt find where a imag eor a picture object
stores the path to a picture (For exampe if i type in a text box c:\pic.jpg
where must i say that the pic box realy shows the pic)
hope this is understandable sinc ei am not english :)

I seen this before but cannot find it again
to use characters like &  , +  , ^ ,  ' ,    there was something you needed
to put before them to tell VB to ignore them as a control(whatever) and to
use it as plain text instead..

   I have to send a snmp trap. I have a snmp manager (Openview) and I
have started the Windows agent.
Now I don't know what to do anymore. I believe I have to use the
snmpapi.dll, but I can't find any reference to this library. I need a

Is there a way for a VB program to automatically respond to a DateChange
event ? I have written a program that does calculations based upon how many
days have passed after some data was originally entered into the program
when the program is opened/started. Since many users may ...

I have a VB program which loads a jpg file into a picture box. I want to be
able to d/click on the picture box and have Internet Explorer show this jpg
file.
What code do I put into the Image1_DblClick() function to show this pic in

I have been using VB5 for quite some time and have become fairly familiar
with it but wonder if I should change to VB6 because practically all my
program requirements are fairly simpe (but extensive)  file-manipulation
activites.