VB Forum / General 2 / November 2003

Hopefully someone can help me with this problem. For some strange
reason my Desktop image can't be seen. All I get is what I can only
really describe as colored snow; the image can't be made out at all.
My Desktop icons are fine however. I tried downloading a new theme and

How do round up to nearest dollar in VB.Net.(to the next dollar price). If i get 9.46 or 9.65, i need to round up to 10.00
Thanks in Advance

I'm working on a CD catalog program. I'm looking for an EASY way to query
Freedb for CD information. (generate a CD disk-ID and submit & retrieve the
info etc.) Have any of you experience with a free ActiveX of any kind that
will do the trick?

I've read many messages from people who couldn't their mouse scroll
wheel to work in VB6 with WinXP.  The advice was usually to upgrade
their mouse drivers.  I did but it didn't help.
 I've finally figured it out.  I was using the latest and greatest

I'd like to be able to automatically generate a PowerPoint set of
slides from data that's stored in an Excel Spreadsheet.
I think I can handle the PowerPoint slide creation OK, but how do I
open the Excel file and read from it?  Can I do that with Visual Basic

I am struggling with converting a VB6 project to VB.NET. I am seeing a
consistent strange behaviour on forms that have a ComboBox control on
them and there is an event procedure to fire in case the
SelectedIndexChanged event occurs.

Hi Group,
Im after adding some security to my VB project, basically I have 10 forms in
my project and would like to be able to setup a list of users assign them a
password and be able to have 10x tick box`s for each form, when a tick box

Hi again
I read from some posting in the past that there exists some way to
scroll big chart (created using MSchart) say e.g. a chart with stock
market variation data over years (stock price versus the time). Some

please can someone gimmie the code for a timer...
i want a timer to run from 0.0, and as i press my button i want a listbox to
be filled with times (splits)
i cant get the timer to do anything but tell the time! is this all it does?

using MS Sql server and VB i can execute two queries Insert and select
in one statement e.g. (insert into (....) values (...) Select
@@Identity).
how can i do the same thing using Oracle and VB. ???

Simple, huh?  Well, here's the twist...  The executible has to be ran
in the command prompt in Start; due to the fact that you also have to
pass parameters in it as well.  Here's an example:
C:\****\******\pdftotext test.pdf

How add tabs in code ?
SStab.Tabs Add ------> ????? or how ?
Goran

I'm writing a VB6 app with VS sp5 and one particular form - unfortunately
with lots of controls, two SSTabs and lots of code bombs out whenever I
press Alt-anything.  In Task Manager I can watch the memory go up and up and
then it terminates the app, and VS with it.

I want to check that the first 4 digits of a 10 digit reference are
between 0000 and 9999 but when i input the code VB automatically
changes the 0000 to 0, I have tried using "0000" ie
If Left(AccRef, 4) > "0000" And Left(AccRef, 4) < 9999 Then

It turns out my backup system was not backing up the folders in my MS VB
program data folder.  With a HD crash, I've lost everything.  I have the
.exe versions of two programs I wrote.  Is it at all possible to decompile
them back to VB language?