VB Forum / General 2 / October 2003

I need to learn all about sub-procedures like "ByVal or ByRef"(when and how
to use them)..
I am new to VB.NET
Thanks

I just want to call up an instruction page that is on the net from within
VB6.
The user goes to the HELP menu and selects the Online Instructions submenu.
Now I don't know what to do next.

I am trying to write a list to a file, but have no joy putting more
than one entry from the same button into it. The code I am using is as
follows:-
Private Sub Command1_Click()

Hi Again Group Sorry to bother you again!
On my project I have several Command Buttons, As these looking boaring im
looking at replacing these with Pictures/Icons could anybody suggest the
best way of going about this, on average there is 5 command buttons on each

sorry for my poor english, i'm french
i'd like to know how to use the printer port wirh VB in order to count some
impulsion by this way, and otherthings
(i want to use it both ways : the computer lit some leds for example, and

Hello - I'm looking for some information on how to implement a web software
update to an application that I'm writing.
Is there any good sample code available?
Is there any good articles available?

I want to be able to randomly select entire rows withing an
MSFlexGrid.
I also need to be able to select more than one row.
Then once I've selected the rows i'm interested in I need to be able

I am working on an Application which I have based on several frames.
There is one central frame, and, as required, the other frames 'slide'
out from behind it.
The problem is that this requires a large form to keep room for all of

I have a textbox which displays a formatted numeric. eg: 100,000
When I retreive this value for calculations, it is valued at 100
eg:
calc = val(txtbox) * 2

Are there any VS.NET 7 people here?
If not, which news group is best for discussing VS.NET 7?
I have a few questions and get no feed back from
microsoft.public.vstudio..... groups.

probably a stupid question but: how do I get the focus to the next textbox
(or button), if I don't know the name of that next item?
Thanx
Frank

Let me start off by saying I have VB working model which means no help.  I
have searched MSDN.  It seems that I get "Read the help" instead of answers
which is totally useless to me.  With that said can someone please help me
understand why this does not work?

I have an app in VB 6 and I want to have a 'windows' menu with a list of all
the windows on. I have made a top-level menu and clicked the 'window list'
option on the menu designer.
When I run the app, the menu name appears but nothing happens when I drop it

I wanted to do the following:
1.  Save a file as "Tensegrity.tmp" in my C:\Temp directory (and if one
exists to replace it without any interaction, asking me about it etc.)
2.  Once this is done, my application to automatically be minimized.

I'm searching for something similar to what there used to be in QBasic
etc.
There was an option to define a "visual page" and an "Active page",
where the visual one was what we saw on the screen, and the active one