VB Forum / General 2 / January 2004

Just a general questiion to the list as I have been looking at the merits
of both VB and Delphi and a quick online survey seems to come down on the
side of Delphi!
Does anyone care to argue the case for VB?..or point me towards somewhere

I wrote a simple program in VB6 to copy all the files from a directory
on a CD-ROM to my hard disk.  There are about 10 files, each about
30MB.
The program uses Get and Put to get data from the CD into a buffer and

Hi Huys,
When the "X" is pressed, I know that QueryUnload is called.
I want to be able to put up a box, asking the user if they are sure..  If
yes then

Hi all...
I have a problem here..
I have a textbox for entering custid.
When the user presses the ENTER key within the textbox, it is supposed to

OK I've been searching for an answer for days and keep coming up blank. No
pun intended.
I'll try not to be winded but I'm very puzzled, almost meltdown time!
I'm generating a dynamic web page with several links in a WebBrowser Control

Ho fatto un datareport in VB6 e gli ho inserito un'immagine
la domanda è questa: Non c'è modo di cambiare l'immagine in fase di
esecuzione del programma?
Grazie.

I've been distributing my program with VS Installer. Files hh.exe,
hhctrl.ocx, itircl.dll, and itss.dll are included as dependencies,
since  I use html help.  No problems have been reported.  
I've submitted the program to Tucows and they rejected it because of

I have recently switched from Windows 2000 to XP.  One of the first
things I noticed was my VB6 executables display and operate very
differently in XP.  Many screens were cut off, so much so that some
buttons were no longer available.

In response to a question posed on this group a few weeks ago I wrote and posted some code that allowed the user to select a directory and the code would then recursively trawl that directory and all its sub directories clearing the attributes of all files and all directories. I ...

I have no understanding at all on using INNO.  I asked for help in an INNO newsgroup and they
referred me to various web sites.  Reading those pages has not helped at all.  They have added to my
confusion.  If I could figure this out myself I would not be asking for help.  I have ...

Quickie question for any VB.NET heads out there....
I have a list box control, and I want to set the display font to
Terminal. However, in the Font property of the object, Terminal is not
one of the available fonts, even though Terminal is a font that is

How can I sort an array following my own rules?
Ex. I have the elements: DCP9, TU0Y, HJ2I, M4NW, QR5T
In a common way, vb will sort to: DCP9, HJ2I, M4NW, QR5T, TU0Y
(ascending)

This is the second time I've asked this question and I'm hoping
perhaps someone can recommend some good books, on-line courses,
forums, news groups, listservs, etc. to help a network administrator
with a degree in programming get back into programming. I'd like to

I build a VB EXE, that runs permanently on a server of a web site, and
once a minute to 5 minutes calls to a utility of a VB Dll.
Should I make CreateObject once on the exe startup, or for each call
off the utility, considering performance, and failures of the dll and

I have no idea where to start, I just need a general idea if this is
possible:
Originally I created a vb app that uses the WebBrowser component to
view excel files, which seemed to work fine, but does not give me the