VB Forum / General 2 / February 2004

How can I find the dimensions of an image file without having to load it in?
E.g. JPGs and Bitmaps. I have looked at various APIs but they only give me
the actual size in bytes.

I'm building a program that requires a password to login. I want the the
main window to show up behind the password prompt, so the user will know
which program requires it, but if the user cancels, I want the window unload
and the program to stop. Right now, I call the password ...

I am trying to parse sections of an XML header so that I can use a find and
replace function. I am struggling to read this kind of text to use as a
variable for from_text or to_text in my function. My code works with simple
text or reading it one line at a time but that's it. A ...

I am writing a hangman game for my VB class and we did not cover
string manipulation until this week, the final week. I can take in a
word or phrase up to 30 characters and create the necessary dashes for
the number of characters, and also display the correct letters in the

I need to show an MS-HTML-Help file (chm) from a button (or otherwise) in a
VB program.
I have tried three cases:
Case A

I'm from the Java world, and I want to play a little bit with VB .NET. I
have a simple question: In Java it is kind of common to have a static
main method which does nothing else then creating an object of the class
it belongs to and then to fall asleep. All real work will be ...

VB6 SP5 on Windows XP Pro on my home PC
I create a project, add a textbox and make it multi-line. In code, I then create nothing more than the following line in the form load event
Text1.Text = "Hello" & vbCrLf & "World
If I compile it and run the .exe, absolutely no problem. But if ...

I have to retrieve the number of records between 2 dates from a table
in an sql server database.
eg.    SELECT Count(*) FROM Some_Table
      WHERE LastChanged >= '2/25/2004' AND LastChanged < '2/26/2004'

Our shop has been running VB on Windows 95 and 2000 machines for many
years.  We have recently upgraded 3 developer PCs to Windows XP
Professional.  We quickly discovered that our existing programs did
not operate the same under XP as W2K.  The most obvious differences

Here's the code example...
Dim myArray() as string
later I will redim the array in a for/next or a Do/While Loop
   x = ubound(myArray) +1    <<< causes error 9 if no elements exist

I'm having trouble with a variable.  As I've explained in another post, I'm
reading and swapping data between two databases.  One is MySQL and the other
is a MS Access database.  I can connect to both fine, but my problem is I'm
trying to use a RecordSet variable to access a table ...

I have a request of me to have a dll that is attached to word, for
controlling functions, to receive a string coming from a web server.  
This string contains the base URL, which we need for merging documents
that are contained on the web server.    This is being requested as

I am trying to find a way of picking out the latest .LOG file from a
directory.  I have been looking at:
MyName = Dir(MyPath, vbNormal)   ' Retrieve the first entry.
 {loop etc.}

I want to prevent a user from restarting a process (program) that is
allready running. There must be an API call somewhere? Any ideas?
Thanks, Dolphe