VB Forum / General 2 / April 2004

Hello to all,
Can anyone please tell me how to capture the output of a dos command executed in
shell function.
thankyou in advance,

Is there a way to increase the number of Undo' s allowed in VB6???

When using the menu editor and using the & symbol before a letter to make it
an Alt+ shortcut, the underline doesn't show up unless I press the Alt key.
I tried it on both home and work computer and it does the same thing.
Some reason for this?

I have got a VB ActiveX dll project located and compiled in directory
A. I have a test application (simple exe) with a reference to this dll
in directory B. Both of these directories are in turn located in
directory C (see below).

I'm developing an application in VBA under Excel 2000.  I need to execute an
external program and wait for it to finish.
My reference book for Excel 2002 has a great example of how to do this:
TaskID = Shell( Program,1)

I'm wanting to send multiple emails using Visual Basic.  I'm using .NET and
I'm not finding any code to get this to work.
Any ideas will be greatly appreciated!!!

how is it possible to generate a ToolTipText with CR/LFs, e.g.
lblTest.ToolTipText = "1. Row" & vbCrLf
lblTest.ToolTipText = lblTest.ToolTipText & "2. Row"
...

I am in the process of debugging a truly strange behavior in a VB6 standard EXE which makes use of three ActiveX DLLs (also created with VB6)
Essentially the scenario is this
One of the three DLLs is devoted to FTP (not MS, third party control).  The scheme is that in order for ...

I am kind of new to active-x programming, and need a point in the
right direction.
I have an active-x control that I wrote in VB6.  I wrote a testbed in
VB and everything seems to work OK. I included the testbed and

We recently noticed that the vb.net CStr function yields different
results than the vb6 version when converting SQL decimal data, unless
the decimal data has zero precision. The vb.net function returns
trailing zeroes and the vb6 version does not. Why?

DCOM people,
I used to use TIBCO Rendezvous software to do the following, but I
can't anymore, so I have implemented my solution using DCOM.
I have a DCOM server component that receives events from an external

Is ther a simple way to determine whether a particular TCP port (i.e. 104)
is open with visual basic 6.0?
Thanks,

Whom better to ask than people in-the-know.... :-)
What OS would you suggest?¿?
It's time for me to purchase a new wizz-bang PC and I'm running into a problem
getting the OS I want (Winders 98... I know *Old Timers Die Hard* ;->)

I have to develop an application in VB 6.0 that will use a database on
a local PC. For this, there's no problem but my application will have
to communicate with web pages. Is it possible with Visual Basic 6.0 ?
Does it work properly ?

I have win xp pro and vb 6.0 Pro I notice that when I run my .exe if my form
is the top window and then I click on a window in the backround my form
dissappears and the only way I can find it is by starting the task manager
and switching to my running exe and it happens in the vb ...