VB Forum / General 2 / June 2004

I have very limited experience with VB.
I am trying to get the user to enter a string of text.  I will then
use that string in a filter to pull data from a database.  I've been
successful using the;

Does anyone know the syntax for Shift & Function key?
This is the code for function key:
   If KeyCode = vbKeyF5 Then
I want it to add a shift option.

Hi, I'm developing a testing application where i have to trap every
keyboard press event. Which windows API can i use to trap all keyboard
events. Thanks in advance - Dave

I have a VB6 form for an Access db search with a label to display
information about the search (# of items, etc), this label gets
refreshed after a command button is selected and the flexgrid is
populated.  I want to add some intermediate messages to the label

Does anyone know if it's possible to access the address book or/also the
contacts in Outlook please?

Apologies if this has been answered before but can someone tell me if Visual
Basic 6.0 installs and runs fine on XP?
Thank

I've seen this on many programs and it looks quite professional. How is it
done? I can put the icon there and interact with it, but not the balloon
tips.
With best regards, Lindsay.  E-mail: lindsay@home.com

i have a small function that compares values.
If the the compared values match (double record), a form is shown to
the user, who can a) abort import b) skip this record c) import anyway
How can i solve this programmatically?

I am using Windows 2000 with Microsoft Office 2000 Professional. The Excel
version is 9.0.3821 SR-1
All of a sudden for no reason Excel started to crash on opening with the
message "Excel.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You

I am new member in visual basic world. I am doing programming from 1
month. One thing i want to do is i have two text files in my directory
somewhere. One file is generated by GUI based input. Second file is
fixed (means i am not changing it). I want to combine those two files

You all helped me with function keys last week.  Thanks so much; your advice
was right on.
My question now - does anyone have a function that I can use to test my sql
statements for the apostrophe and quote and do a search/replace type thing.

BlankThe VB6 code shown below leaves the cursor where a section of a long email document was cut. I want to send the cursor to the beginning of the email document. Can anyone give me a line of code VB6 that sets the cursor back to the beginning of a long email document?

please say me how can i get the pixel from any area of screen and make
it convert in to tezt or character and make text in the text box??
please say
thanks in advance

Here's some code I use in VB6.  How could I do this same thing in
VB.NET?  I am having a hard time finding a simple example showing how
to do this in .net.  Please help.
Const DB_CONNECT_STRING = "Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;Persist Security

I'll try my best to explain this little problem.
On a form I have a menu bar with 'File', 'View' etc, Also a picture box. In
a sub there is a for next loop that loops 100 times. This loop will move the
picture box slightly to the left each time, so that the picture appears to