VB Forum / General 2 / April 2004

So, I've got my program doing an RDNS lookup. I do also need to
perform a whois lookup sometimes. I know this requires querying a
whois server and getting the repsonse. Would this be done with
winsock?

Can some one tell me how to show common dialog box in the center of
screen. The dialog opens in the upper-left corner of the screen by
default.
Amit

Is there a way to have dirlistbox show hidden folders too?
Any solutions?

I have a form on which I draw some objects.
There is one object in the centre of the form. The rest of them
should be drawn around in a circle, but devided over the whole
circle. The number of objects can vary so I need some code to devide

Im not to confident with updating vb6 programs to the new vb NET so im
taking the long, safe way round and rewriting them - my pictures used
are made in paint and are very bad resolution to keep the size of the
files to a minimum , so when im making forms, im enlarging my pictures

I come back to my earlier question of dragging a listitem to a label.
Thanks of Randy it works, but not complete like the user espects it.
When you drag a label to another label you have to click only once on the
first label and then you can drag immediately. When you drag a ...

is it possible run an  application which is written in vb from cd
automatically without any programme installation or copy any dlls on
harddisk?

After programming in Visual Basic 6 I am thinking of moving up to
Visual Basic NET. I'm told that there are many built-in functions that
can help the programmer. Is VB Net easier to use than VB 6?
Is it easier to write a program in VB Net than VB6?

Sorry for the before email writen in italian.
How can I use the visio library (dll) for draw a flow chart by vb code?
Where I can found some examples?
bye,

Devo creare flow chart da una applicazione visual basic adoperando Visio
della MS.
Qualcuno può indicarmi dove trovare documentazione di esempi in merito
all'utilizzo delle dll di visio?

In VB6 you have compiling options of creating a stand alone program by
including the runtime lib into the exe program.
Can this still be done with VB NET or does the user always need to
have a framework installed on their computer before a VB NET program

I am experiencing problems with one Visual Basic project.  It is prone
to crashing - in the VB IDE and also when running a fully compiled
executable. When it crashes in the IDE, then VB terminates too with no
error message.  When the standalone EXE crashes there are no error

I want to know how i can detect the click with the right mousebutton of the
columnheader and what header it is
Also how to detect the best size for a column
Jan

Back in the 1980s using BASIC/GWBASIC (DOS) there was a series of symbols, Chr$(128) - Chr$(255),
that could be accessed to draw single and double lines for creating boxes around the text.  There
were more than just the lines, but I don't remember any other symbols.
A recent post ...

Does anyone have time to test a UserControl for me?
It's something I wrote very recently to display coloured text without
having to keep including the rtf control.
In it's simplest form, you just drop the control on a form then build