VB Forum / General 2 / April 2004

I was wondering, what's the "proper" (hehe) way to retrieve the system's
temp directory in VB 6.
Like for example, on my Windows XP machine the temp directory that is used
by programs for their temporary files is "C:\Documents And

I need to assign a string to a variable but the text string includes quotation marks:
Example:   MyString = "He turned and said "Hello" before leaving."
When the compiler hits the quotation marks in front of Hello, it assumes the string is over and generates and error on the ...

If I have several text boxes, txtText1, txtText2... can I use a variable to
refer to them in a subroutine?
i.e. For i = 1 to 5
       txtText(i).text = ......

I've been using VB6 for about 5 years now. But I'm now doing that migration
thing to VB.Net. The overall concept of the language is coming along, but
it's the simple things that are driving me nuts. Things like:
Setting tool Tips.

Hello everyone. I was explaining the difference between KeyCode and KeyAscii
when used with textbox events to a friend. I set up a little demo to show
the difference between the Ascii value and the Keycode value. I threw in the
Change event as well.

In VBA or VB can someone please tell me how to check my previously created
word application object to see if there are any pending print jobs?
       wrdApp.Visible = False
       'check for pending print jobs here and then if no pending print jobs

I am using the MSCOMM control in an UserControl developed in VB6
(SP5). It works fine but I have a problem when initializing the
control.
When I start the application I set some properties on the MSCOMM

I have made a program in VB 6.0 that uses a SQL Server database. I'm using
ADO.
I have made a customer register, where I want the following to happen:
1. A customer calls from his phone to the company that uses my program.

Any ideas on this type of error? Or any ideas of finding out what is
causing it?
The control is contained in my app (ie. it's not an external ocx or
dll)and works fine on my machine.

Hello coders,
I have a number of binary files that vary from 5MB to 20MB.
Every file has some ascii string information I want to read, for example a
description.

I wrote a DLL in VB6.
I have three boxes, all running Win 2k. Two boxes are Citrix servers.
Installed it and registered it on the three boxes. I instantiate the DLL
from all three boxes, locally. In other words, it works on each of the three

I tried to add a variable number of identical "labels" on a form at runtime,
using the Collection.Add method.
A previous designed label on the same form is used as model. The following
code ends at i=1 with a "wrong type" error:

Greetings all,
I haven't used VB in quite some time, so I am guessing that I am doing
something stupid.  Here goes.  I am trying to write an application
that will talk to two devices via two different RS232 ports.  The

I build an application in VB6 that connects to an access db useing
MSADODC component. And it works fine on my developing notebook.
When trying to run the app exe on windows 2000 (not for developers) I
receive the following error: "Component 'MSADODC.OCX' or one of its

I was reading recently in a Visual Basic book a suggestion of putting
functions and subroutines in a module rather than in the main program.
In your option is this a good programming practice when writing a
program?  I understand that to access an object on the form then a