VB Forum / General 2 / March 2004

I'm having some problems setting up my connection string to a MySql DB.
I have downloaded the MySQL 3.51 ODBC driver, but I can't find any documentation on msdn to show me what my next steps are. I'm using the oledb connection object. Can anyone please point me in the right ...

First of all, thanks in advance for all advices...
The problem is, at least I think, pretty simple to an experienced programer,
but i'm a beginner...
I have a list, and a base of 5 files(notepad) with strings in them(10

I have a VB application that is reuired to open a register drawer that
is connected to en epson tm-822 printer, which, in turn, is connected
to LPT1.  When the printer and the drawer are connected there is no
problem and everything works fine.  However, there are some cases when

I've done quite a bit of VB6 programming but I'm new to ActiveX controls.
Let me try and explain what I'm doing:
   I've written a User Control that performs an operation on a string and
displays the result.

The following is a code that I use to download a file from a given url
into a given fille location. If one is to copy that code, paste it on
a new vb6 moduel, and then run it (i.e., execute the subroutine Main),
the file  vbm_demo.zip  will be downloaded from the folder

What is the best way to draw a picture onto a Usercontrol? I'm using
Paintpicture and Print which works well, but Paintpicture requires
AutoRedraw to be on. Because of this, the Paint event and I get portions of
the picture not being redrawn after an activity such as a Popupmenu or ...

How do I add to a date? I thought the following code would work but it
doesn't like it. I'm trying to add 6 months (182 days) onto a date.
Option Explicit
Private Sub Form_Load()

I have the following problem. I have two double value numbers which
need to be multiplied. The answer is returned in +E25 format but I
need the answer to be a complete number since it will go out to a
file. Tried assigning the variable as string but i am having same

I am about to finish my first proper VB program and today decided to
make a compiled version to see if it ran any quicker. To my horror I
got errors which never existed running in debug mode when running as a
stand alone exe on the same pc.

Hi. Can anyone point me to a place where I can download some small
visual basic programs (e.g. games) that I can download? I would like
to see how well visual basic games run on Linux computers under wine
(www.winehq.org).

I am trying to retrive the total size of files present in a treeview string.
The string is strArray(1) im using ";" as a string seperater and "|" as a
seperater of items within strArray(1). I want to display the total size of
the files in a label. How woould I go about this?

I found out a strange behaviour of the resize-event.
I use a picturebox in a mdiForm. Based on a classmodule I can paint the
picturebox with my firmname vertical, including some dithering from white to
black.

Can Windows INF files tell U all the files that are associated with a
program. Is any information like this avaliable at the microsoft site cause
I was unable to find any. This would be great to help me find the dll files
which my programs may need to run.

As a long time reader of this group, I thought it would be ok to post
this.
My friend Mike sent me this message today & it really bugged me. If
any of you can help him by making a Paypal donation to

I'm running an Excel VBA macro, and getting the "Object variable or With
block variable not set" error. There is no With block in this code. Here
is the code:
       theSearchString = SearchStringCell.Value