VB Forum / General 2 / May 2004

Dear J:
A while back I had a problem trying to avoid early-binding to
a wrappered .net dll that a customer required me to use.  (The
wrappered .net dll used raised events instead of using callbacks,

This seems like it would be pretty simple.
But I can't seem to figure out / find how to access a MS Access database
with .Net
Any samples/suggestions would be much appreciated

I am making a program for a friend with a disability.
I need to adjust his audio volume using the keyboard as he cannot use
a mouse.
Any suggestions as to how I can raise the volume using the up arrow on

Looking for IME

I need to be able to detect different screen resolutions and then
resize my applications forms, objects, fonts etc,  to suit.
Any ideas how to go about it?
I use VB 5.

I have a series of strings that can look like the following:
GB/GB/12345
SAL-6589785
JTW/JW-98745621

How can I tell if the computer is connected to the net? O:-)
TIA

I'm trying to get te index of a specific text in a ComboBox.
The ComboBox is filled by searching for filenames in a directory.
The text of the last item selected in the ComboBox is saved in a
textfile in the OnExit Event of the Mainform.

After someone logs in to my site's main page I capture the user i.d. to a
session variable like this:
"Dim requestorID
session("requestorID") = Request("HidUserID")"

Thanks for helping with my first quest however heres another 2!
1.  How would I get the the contents of  a text box onto the clipboard to
paste into another application without manually selecting the text??
2. Can I run my little program as a stand alone .exe file so that the VB

  More of an observation than question, but I have a program that uses
the randomize function before generating random numbers. I thought this
would do a pretty good job of generating random numbers, but it doesn't.
I have way too high an incident of repeating numbers.  I'm ...

I wrote a quick app to get the character set.  It's far worse than I could
have imagined, with high and low ascii values intermixed without reason.
Here's the Chararacter Set order based on StrComp:
Char #1 is Asc(0) w/ Char of (Non-printable)

I recently upgraded to MS Windows XP and want to know if  MS Visual Studio
Version 6.0a is compatible with it.  Thanks in adamancy.
Norm.

I'm working on a VB6 application that will go on a Windows XP embedded
computer in an automobile.  There will not be a mouse or keyboard; the
user will not even know it is windows they are running.  The only user
input will be through 5 pushbuttons.  (the status of the pushbuttons

Hi.  Two clients are reporting this message at different points in our
app.  I didn't find much in the help or MSDN library.  Everything I
found online has nothing to do with what we are doing (e.g. connection
w/ server and/or SQL stuff).