VB Forum / General 2 / October 2003

I'm writing an appilcation that starts up in the TrayBar. (I found a
nice COX that helped me with that.) When I right click on the Tray
icon, I get an event. In my code, I would like a form to appeare rigth
above the mouse pointer, like a menu often does when you right click

Is it possible to send a snmp trap from vb6? Are there any free (or
cheap) libreries?
Specifically I have to send a trap to OpenView.
Thanks and cheers, Gionni

I am working on my own mp3 player like winamp.
As reference I use a download class witch can handle mp3 playing.
But in serveral of the function in that class I see following declaration:
IE.

I am attempting to colour some words in a RichTextBox control in VB.
A color table already exists.
The RTF source for my text box is as such:
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0

Can anyone recommend a book or websites to teach me a little about
structured dev processes?
Thanks in advance
Sam

Is there a way of programmatically adding in add-ins to Excel?

Need some help bad here. Am using VB.Net Standard 2003 supplied for
a class and I need to install Msde and the sample databases to work on
homework. Following the documentation I can download sql2kdesksp3.exe
and get the server running. I cannot then install the sample databases

All,
I'm trying to figure out how I would execute code that would be shared over
a number of wwwroot folders.
Basically it would be the equivalent of an .inc file only instead of

Here's one for ya...
So I want to program a slider control to adjust the system volume but
instead of 1:1 linear movement I want to have a logarithmic scale.
Specifically I set the control to have a minimum value of  0 and a max value

I can't remember what it is.  The opposite of
dim vArray         as variant
vArray = Array(1,4,7)
creates a 3 element array of those values, but what builds a string from the

Can anyone tell me how to convert a UNC path to a local path (if such
one exists) ?
For example, let's take this UNC:
\\LOCALPC\Shared\Documents

Dear Group:
Maybe someone can point me to a tutorial or directions for help on Windows
Media Player control from a VB app? Particularly, I'd like to have the app
start Windows Media player at a certain time and shut down at a certain

There's probably a simple solution for this but I don't know it. In most
cases when you're trying to open/save a file which is in you're own
directory you won't have to type "c:\myJunk\....\file.txt", the filename
only (with extension) is enough. But not with email attachments. When ...

How to manage that a combobox will fire an event when I the current field
has changed? Of course the combo component has an onChange event but this
will only fire when you hit enter or leave the box.
Greetings,

Has anyone out there investigated converting VB 6 code and VB.Net code to C#?  
We are writing new code in C#. If we are converting from VB 6 anyway
going to C# as a target language seems like a good move.
Any experience out there? Comments on available tools? Done it by hand?