VB Forum / General 2 / April 2004

How will the following code be understood by the vb compiler?
If  Date > #4/8/04#  Then
....
Is it always Aril 8, 2004 or August 4, 2004? or does it depend on the

Having used EVB in the past I am wondering if I can program for the PocketPC
using simply VB.Net standard edition, or do I have to pay 10 times extra for
Studio.Net?

I am trying to create a statistical report in VB 6.0 using the VB
DataReport. Essentially, the table I am looking at has a number of
personal information records, including things such as Addresses,
professions, a classification type, and a few other fields.

My little app is the front end to a Access 2000 database.
I use reference to DAO3.6 for read write etc.
The Database is password protected and all works OK.
I want to upgrade the project to reference the ActiveX Data Object 2.1.

I'm having problems with a file encryption/decryption program I've
been working on.
When I encrypt and then decrypt a file I've noticed that all the FF's
have been replaced by 00's. I thought this was a simple case of the

Is it possible to respond to an external applications events from
within a VB application. For example, if I opened Notepad from within
my VB application using Shell could I detect when Notepad was moved by
the user and raise and event within my visual basic application. I see

I am trying to figure out a way to make salesman be able to enter
orders for their customers while they are on the road.  I exported our
customer list and our stock file list so they could have access to the
account info on the road.  So I made a VB program that reads the text

Does any of you know how to incorporate the Shell's folder tree?
I would like to have the source code rather than an ActiveX as I am working
on a GPL program which requires me to include the source code of each
control.

I have an app that runs a conversion program (DiCom to Jpg)in the
command line.
I use
Dim retval As Double, msg, var (var being the dicom image)

I want to put a picture of an alarm clock on my form. I found a clip art pic
of a red alarm clock on a white backround.
what is the best way to have this pic on my form with the backround matching
the form backround.

I have set my form MinButton to TRUE but the button does
not appear on the form.
Can anyone tell me why and how to get this to work.
Thanks

I have a program that saves data to a user selectable path. I would like to
be able to detect whether or not the user has selected a CD-RW and or DVD-RW
device. Is this possible? I can detect whether the device is a CD drive but
I need more granularity. I need to know whether its a ...

I was wondering, is there a way to get the total sent/recieved from a
computer? I've seen many examples, some on source forge, others on
here, and one of the easiest i'd say is from
http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/network/getinterfacetable.htm . But the

        I am new to Visual Basic, and have created a very basic
application . It is a form with 3 fields that is validated and
subsequently inserted into the database. The problem starts here.
I tried creating an Installation Package using Package and Deployment

Has anyone come across this before
 - Printing Dotted lines to printer object
   works ok on 1st page,
   comes out solid on 2nd page.