VB Forum / General 2 / May 2004

I need some help finding a way to determine if the current user has
administrator privileges on the computer. This is necessary because i
run an automatic installer-function that fails if the user haven't got
administrator privileges. I could make an .exe-file, limit its access

sorry for asking here. but can anyone tell me if exist any news groups for
C#. I am not able to find it.
looking how to delete records from a text file. tk. with appreciation. H.
apologies for adding this kind of message on a visual basic area.

What is the best way to transfer variables to and from a dialog box? My
project consists of a form with a number of controls, lets say three Labels,
when a label is clicked it opens a dialog box with a text box in it and the
text box data will be returned to the label that was ...

okok
i wanted to change a program someone else wrote for my company to use
so i installed VB6 with no service packs and pulled up the existing code
the program didn't like it that the guy had used colons to mean "end of

 With the same exe in two different machines, 2 rtf code are returned
from the richtextbox control. This cause for me a very serious problem
in my application.. How to solve this problem ? (VB6, Windows XP)
 thanks

I'm after a good and readily available (not to mention inexpensive)
VB6 book. I've been programming commercially for about 13-14 years,
but not in VB, and I need to get up to speed. Remembering the alleged
learning curve (AKA brick wall) that I underwent learning

Dear I all,
I am really new in Vb.
Is it possible to tap Shift + Tab combination in keydown event of the
form.

I've noticed something that I don't understand.  I create a byte array of
1000 bytes (ubound(bt) = 999) in VB 6 and I put it into a variant data type,
the length of the variant variable, len(vData), is 500??  When I put the
variant data back into a byte array, it's 1000 bytes.

   anyone know what could cause a form to misbehave when compiled with VB6
with no service packs?
   or when created with vb6 without service pack 6 and then compiled with?
I have a project that the form doesn't seem to register changes to it's

I would like to save forms and controls of a Visual Basic 6.0 OCX library
(contains 21 controls) into Win32 resource files (.rc, .res) to give these
resource files (satellite DLLs) to translators (Asian languages). The
translator then sees the dialogs and is able to adapt the size ...

Please could somebody explain to me the difference in the following
two methods of establishing communication between two pcs using the
winsock control. I cant get the second method to work and am having a
hard time explaining the difficulty to somebody else.

Hello again.
After passing the obstacle of finding-comparing and copying newer files only
from one folder to another, it is time to deal with folders.
I have the source folder which includes many subfolders (they do not include

I need to make change to a wav file properties.  I need to change the
title, author and other file properties.  Is there a way to do this is
vb.net?
Also can I add new (or custom) file properties to file in vb.net?

Let say i got 2 pc connected thru a LAN, and a vb program is running on pc1,
and pc2 needs to run the same program on pc1 thru the network. The vb
program will authenticate the user from pc2 thru the login module. The
problem is how do I write the single vb program that will allow ...

Hello...
I have the following problem: I would like to change contents of the current
Internet Explorer Browser window by a program (client application) to be
written in Visual basic. It's not so important, how this happens, however it