VB Forum / General 2 / May 2004

well i want to know is there any other way possible to enter data
directly in to the data grid else then doing coding .If there is any
thirdparty tools that provide this facility so plz do tell me about it
also .Or suggest me any alternative about entering data directly into

How can I encrypt ascii text in VB? Is there 'free' downloads available to
do so?
RVR

I have a toolbar and it seems to be impossible to link it to an
imagelst I have in the same form. Every time I select the imagelist
from the toolbar's property pages (General|ImageList) then when I
press apply or OK the ImageList property of the toolbar reverts back

On a form I put 25 images. Depending on an action one of the images has to
become visible.
ImageXX.Visible = True
Every action gives me a number corresponding with te image that must get

What happens to the menus that have Visible = False? I cannot get the handle
the menu when they are not visible. GetMenu only gets the handles to menus
that are visible on the menu bar. If I get the handle to a menu and then set
Visible = False, the handle no longer works. It's ...

A customer of mine has upgraded (?) a .dll from VB6 to VB.NET, but
used a COM-wrapper so that VB6 apps can call it.  This dll is unique
to the customer and I have to use to supply certain customer-specific
functions.

hello, i need  to make a program in VB6 that receive a packet of datas from
RS232 port every 125 msec.
the packet is sent by a plc and I have  two way for sending this packet:
the first is sending by plc all the datas word into hexadecimal form. in

I'm trying to write a program that will retrieve stock prices off the
internet. I have VB5 professional edition. When I try to use the internet
transfer control. It says I don't have the correct liscense to use it. Is
there any other way to retrieve information off the internet? If ...

After about two months of using Visual Basic . NET 2003 Standard, it
suddenly started freezing up whenever it tried to display a Windows form
inside a project file. All other files, such as HTML and XML, open
hunky-dory, including projects without forms in them. I tried reinstalling

I have 32 pics of teeth, when user uses some tool from toolbox and
click it on any individual pic of tooth it has to be displayed a
symbol of used tool. I have 30 or so different tools which could be
used. If someone can suggest be some good ways of doing grpahics in

Can anyone tell me how can I get the data from PBX (SMDR).
I've AT&T PBX and would like to communicate with this PBX unit through
serial COM port and download data (SMDR) to store them in an MSAccess
2000 database. How could i read these incoming data (Tel.Calls Record)