VB Forum / General 2 / October 2003

Hello Group,
Hope someone can help me?
Can anyone tell me what differences there is between VB5 and VB6?
We have a VB6 licence and want to use another computer, if we use the VB5

Has anyone noticed that the Format function converts
string arguments to numbers when they contain only digits,
the period and hyphen?
For example,

I'm converting an old VB5 program that uses double buffering for
smooth animation. It uses Windows API calls quite a lot. In particular
BitBlt is
applied to bitmaps in memory. At first I thought the VB.NET bitmap object

hy,
I want to emulate a backspace to a telnet session with winsock.
mycode:
   sck.sendata chr(8)

It would be very long explanation, I'll try to keep it
as short as I can.
Stepping through the code I get SqlConnection error with
data adapter. Wish to see what is it.

I think that i found an error in Visual Basic. This is very ugly for our
product.
Presume you have a project with:
-UserControl1 and UserControl2, where UserControl1 is parent for

Is there away to redim a multi-dimensional array.
I want to store values from a database into a two dimensional array.  for
instance:
My code is similar to this:

Using the printer object to print a form (portrait), I would like to include vertical and/or rotated text to print a
simple phrase.  The form has a frame with a 3/4" left border, and 1/2" top, right and bottom borders.  I would like to
have a duplicate copy of the form printed each ...

Can someone tell how I can insert new text line into the file
For example:
(old file:)
[test1]

Just started messing round with visual basic 5 and havent got a clue sorry,
was looking for some sites that give tutorials or ideas of how to do what i
want below.
What I'm trying to do is a trick type thing on my daughter which consists of

Has any one out there experienced this?
When a combobox, which doesn't has focus, is clicked the
drop-down part just flickers. That is it becomes visible
for a very short time. There are items in the combo but

How can I change the default location for saving a VB project to one of my
own choosing?

hai all,
I having diffuculties with the DataArrival event from winsock
whenever i use a standard TELNET program (like the windows one) to connect
to my deamon the DataArrival event is triggerd every typ in a char in my

Here is my problem. Is there a way in VB to write to cmd prompt? At present
I have a vb program (no forms, all modules only). In order to write to
standard output (dos), i use the following command:
shell ("cmd /c" & "echo my_message")

   For the most part I understand the VB "Language". I also understand C,
C++, JAVA, JavaScript, etc, etc.
   What always holds me back is that I don't know what to do with them. I
mean, I have good ideas for things to make, but I can't seem to organize my