VB Forum / General 2 / June 2004

Hey all,
I posted this in the database section but did not get a reply. I thought
this
might be a good place to try also.

I have a usercontrol, and in a property, I'd like to be able to raise an
error if the user/program attempts to set an invalid value.  For example, if
you try to set a form's AutoRedraw property to "Hello," you'll get an error
where you tried to set that property.  If I do an Err ...

i would like to run a vb app remotely from a client machine.  the app
and all the necessary dll's, drivers etc are installed on a server
machine.  the client does not have any vb files at all.
we would like to avoid installing any vb files client side, just run

I'm writing a small app to send email and need to use MAPI so that the user
can just select their Outlook profile and what not and don't have to know
anything about their SMTP server. [MAPI doesn't seem to exist as it did in
VB6?]

I have a bundle of Word documents each of which contains a picture of
a barcode.  I would like to put them all into a single document.  I
can open each document in turn with Shell and AppActivate but when I
try and copy the picture nothing gets copied.

Is it possible for to program to access a random file at the same time and
perform actions like create a new record?

I was wondering whether it is possible to actually know whether my cd-rom
drive perfoms any task at a given moment.
To be more specific, i created an app which copies files to my removable
drives (cd-rw and Zip). When it comes to Zip all is ok, because the

intYear=2004
intMonth=06
I want to convert intYear & intMonth to 06/01/2004 thru 06/30/2004. Is there
a way? And if it's Feb the endining day will be 28 if its Jan it will be 31

Does anyone know how I would go about reading the Dell Service Tag from the
bios of a computer?  If this isn't possible, does anyone know another way to
programmatically get the service tag?
Thanks,

I know there's probably a simple way to do this, but
whatever that is, eludes me currently....
How does one go about printing the image from an
ImageEdit control at the "full page" size of the current

I need some guidance.  I have been using UDT's and arrays to hold
information so I can easily display data and save it.  I am in the
process of building a new form and ran across a problem I can't figure
out how to solve.

Hallo Group!
Zunächst vielen Dank an die, die mir auf meine letzte Frage geantwortet haben.
War genau richtig mit Left$(AAA, n) in der SQL-Abfrage. Bin auch selbst darauf
gekommen nur wohl irgendwie falsch angewendet, so dass es nicht richtig funzt

In VB 6
I made a project with a MDI form and several child forms .You can only "end"
the project from the MDI
form by clicking the red button at the top right corner

I have a great, small DOS application that won't run under XP. Is there a
way to convert it to VB or something that will run under WinXP

I have a great small DOS application that won't run on WinXP. How can I
convert it to VB or something that will run under XP?