VB Forum / General 2 / November 2003

I think the easy way to validate a data its a picture or mask, e.g.
9999 for 4 numbers or AA for 2 char alpha, etc
How can I specificate it for a textbox???
REGARDS!

I have written a DLL file that contains dialogs.  When the dialog is called
I need to find a way to hold code execution at that point until the dialog
is closed so its property values can be used.
Has anyone run into this before and found a solution?

Normally a software will allow us 30 days evaluation period before we
buy the software. Does anybody know how to make the program only can
run for 30 days and after 30 days we cant run the program anymore? Let
say by using visual basic...what is the trick behind??

Hi all!
I'm trying to write a function that will convert base-10 numbers to letters
(for the purpose of sequential numbering -- er, lettering).

Anyone know what is going on here:
1. create a form, go to form properties, click on icon and select
c:\myfile.ico and the icon appears at the top left corner of the form
as expected and displaying the correct colours. Run the program and

Im a complete newbe at this and would like som help. Im sure this is very
easy to do but i dont have any idea as where to start.
I would like to have a .vbs file that i can click on to open e message box
where I can specify a file.

I am attempting to write an application that also starts another
executable.  I want to be able to add some error handling into the
code so in case the 2nd executable does not open properly or at all,
my application will be able to recognize that the new window is not

I had setup a form with Border style none.  But as soon as I add a
menu to do a right click event it displays the Border style. Is there
a way to have the menu and not the Borders? All help appreciated.
Regards,

Hi, I am considering building an application that will need to pass
simple information such as a list of files between different computers
on different networks using visual basic. I am thinking of using COM
but am concerned that with all the possible variations of operating

We are reading files which exceed 2.1Gb and the input part
of our program is failing. I suspect this is a restriction
of GET# where the file pointer cannot keep track of the
byte count over 2.14Gb, (the byte count is stored in a

I'm having trouble using the this windows api call in Windows XP.
This call works fine in Windows 98 however.  Does anyone have any
suggestions?
Thanks,

I'm trying to print to a picture box, right align the output, align the
decimal points and include two places to the right of the decimal point, all
aligned vertically. I am using Courier font.
So far no combination of formats has worked for me. Any suggestions?

Ok this is completly weird?  I'm getting this error when I
run the EXE, but not when I run from within the vb IDE.
I tracked it down to a MsgBox.  If I rem this msgbox and
recompile and run from exe there is no error.  But I

I'm creating a .NET service.
I want to read settings from a txt file in the same folder as the exe file
is placed.  The file has the same name as the exe file.
In VB6 I used app.path to find the path.

how can i detect an incoming caller's telephone keystroke using modem,
using mscomm or other?
how can i detect an outgoing call using mscomm?
how can i get a caller id using mscomm?