VB Forum / General 2 / April 2004

I want to run my program with a command line argument automatically
passed to it whenever I run from within the IDE. This way I can enable
or disable a particular debugging menu. When I run the executable in
staging areas (and, for that matter, when users run the executable)

As pretty much a clueless newbie in VB, I need to know how to test to
see if a file exists. If I just try to open the file for input, I get
a system error and program halt.
I want a program I'm trying to create to use a configuration file with

I have a program which generates reports in the form of
text output.
It's possible to pass a command-line and argument
to launch an editor of your choice to edit the report.

Anyone out there know of any OCX's to view Word and Excel docs?

Please help this vb.net newbie! I would like to draw a graphics
primitive. For example, a line, and have that line be it's own object
(so that I can have a collection of lines) and have that line be
clickable by the user. Can anyone help?!?! I can create a graphics

I'm new to VB programming, I want to display a sequence of lines on a text box
set to multiline mode. I'm writing the lines of text in this fashion:
Text1.text = text1.text + "whatever I want to say" + vbcrlf
What is happening is that the text box is not updated to display any of ...

Hello, i need some help if possible...
i have a payments table with over 500 records
i want to run a query that searches through the table spotting out any
duplicate ID#'s and Dates.

I am working on irda receiver and I can't get good results with basic timer
( it is to slow). I can get working delay with "for" loop but it isn't
constant.
thanks in advance!

could anyone tell me how do i go about writing a function/command that
can terminate the vb application at ANY POINT of execution to the
extent that once the 'terminationg function command' is executed
nothing else beyond the last line of this function is going to be

Hi, i´m a beginner with VB 6.0 and I´m trying to follow a guide i´ve found in the web in order to get used with it.
But when I´ve started the database section I´ve found the next problem:
I´ve created an access database and then open a new exe project in vb, then in the menu ...

How? I've tried ShellExecute API which uses "explore" as an option but
nothing happens. I got the info from API guide but there is nothing specific
to this.

When running VB on a German OS, the following returns a value of "1".  On English, the retString value is "0" as expected.   Is this a bug?
Sub test(
   Dim vString As Varian
   Dim retString As Varian

Please help me: i am making an image viewer so that when you click on an
image in the directory specified, it shows it: tell me what is wrong with my
code::: PLEASE!!!!!
I keep getting compile errror: type mismatch!! HELP!!!!

my vb app can open files. Well, actually my vb app launches word or excell
to open them.
These files are shared in a network.
If somebody else has allready opened that file, you must get a requester

Does anyone know if there is command that is similar to C's command "exec" I
believe. It is away to launch another app while the parent app terminates.
I'm not looking for the "shell" command that merely waits. I want the parent
to terminate.