VB Forum / General 2 / November 2003

I'm developing an app that populates a listview control with items from an
Outlook inbox.  Everything seems to work fine until I end the program,
whereupon VB shuts down. There are 1300+ items in the inbox, but I wouldn't
think the number of items in the listbox would be the problem ...

I could you print jpg or bmp from the printer commands
I tried something like ;
Printer.picturepaint ("92.bmp")
printer.enddoc

How would I tie into the windows API to receive notifications of when
a new file is created or modified.  I looked at shell interface, but
this did not notify of files created or modified at the command line
level

I have an app which increases the size of an image by using paintpicture
from an image control to a picturebox. This obviously causes pixelation. How
does one go about smoothing images? I'm not looking for a high quality
solution, but something that will 'get rid of the worst'. It's ...

On my keyboard (UK English) I have a key with a picture of a menu on it on
the bottom row next to "control" . on most apps it does the same as the
right hand mouse button and its VB key code number is 93.
does anyone know the VB symbol for it - I've tried all the ones that look

I've got a timer problem and it's sort of hard to describe.  Let's see....
I've got a timer, tmrMain, in my main form (a form that only gets unloaded
when the program ends).  The timer is always going at an interval of 500 ms.
It's purpose is to monitor a serial port for input and, ...

Well, I've jumped into the world of classes this week and the first thing I
did was write an object that I am acustom to always having in delphi, the
"TStringList" Class. I was just wondering if there a
*"Vb-doesn't-have-it-but-should-so-we're-going-to-Write-it

I'm a new programmer on Visual Basic and for any of you who play tank
wars, I'm attempting to lay out a terrain similar to it.  What I need
is a terrain that I can draw (Basically just a random line across the
screen).  I have no idea how to do this though.

anyone know how to save an entire webpage as a JPEG or GIF using VB?
i.e. As if I had taken a screen shot.
Thanks in advance.
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I have a vb.net app which I have now happily learnt how to compile,
the problem is that I do not want to have my customers selecting the
dotnetfx.exe file first to install from my cd and then going back to
the folder on the cd and selecting my vb.net app to install after.

I am using InstallShield Express 4.0 and 5.0 for building my Visual
Basic installation package.
I like the products, but I want to know, if there is any opportunity
to shrink the size of the installation package. Due to Visual Basic

Getting ready to learn first programming language and I can learn either
"Visual Basic"  OR "Visual Basic.NET"  .... which would you recommend
for a new programmer?
My application is for controlling test instruments, motion control,

I apologize in advance if this question has been asked 100 times but I
searched with Google Groups and couldn't find it.
I developed an app in VB5 on an XP machine.  The client's machines
were all Win 98.  The app (stored on each machine) accesses an mdb

I need to know how to reference a control in VB .NET using a string.
I have a series of controls with sequential names: text1, text2,
text3, text4, etc.  I would like to loop through them using something
like this:

My application uses a RTF file to report the results of an execution.
This report file can be printed out automatically or saved for future
purposes. The content of the RTF report file is very diverse: text in
different fonts and colors, pictures, tables, ... When I create the