VB Forum / General 2 / June 2004

After 3 hours of searching and experimenting, I thought it time to
just ask.
I had a VB6 project in VSS that I moved from a sub project location to
a project under the root.  I "destroyed" the old project location to

I use following code to open a wordfile from VB but it works only
the first time. Second time I try to open word I get only an empty
Word-screen....
Private Sub cmdRetrieveDoc_Click()

I want to start with the .NET platform. Downloaded and installed .NET
framework 1.1 and the SDK.
Where do I start???
Gerbrand.

I am trying to enter amounts in a text box with decimal points (ie 2.5) but instead i get a display amount of 25,00. I recently found out that I can only specify decimal locations with a comma "," instead of a "." . Is there any way to remedy this? I wish to enter amounts with ...

I didn't get any joy from asking this question a couple of months ago so I
thought I'd try again because it's still happening to me.
on one of my VB projects, if I try to compile it on the command-line with
       c:\.....\vb6 /m foo.vbp

i want to play a simple soundfile in my vb programm. i use the
sndPlaySound function from WINMM.DLL. that's no problem...
but i want to play the file "direct" from my executable, so that i dont
need an extra soundfile. how can i include my .wav soundfile into my vb6

Please Help me on following topic.
I have an application which requires users input from the GUI(which is
form 1), and the click button will write some data according to user
input in to the text file. The way i want is after clicking the data

Sometime ago someone in a newsgroup stated to NOT download SP6 just yet.  I assume there was a
problem.  Is/was there a problem?  Is it *safe* to download VB6 SP6?
I was on this site looking for the *latest* download (watch for the line wrap):
http://www.microsoft ...

Ok, I am realy getting strung out over this dam process, I follow the
example in the book "EXACTLY", it will run no problems on my machine, but
will it not run on any other machine and not on the website as well.
Here is what I am doing:

I would like to save the values in a vb form to a worddoc.
So when i click the button a new wordfile is created and all
values of the fields on the form are transferred to word.
Is this possible?

I forgot how to assign first letter of name of command button to be opend by
combination of, for example ALT + first  letter
I am sure that it was somewhere in properties of command button but I can't
find it.

I have observed a couple of bugs displaying the alt+tab icon with an MDI
application. I'm not sure if it is something I'm doing wrong or a
problem with VB. Has anyone got any ideas how I might track them down?
I have a single MDI child form, Form1, that displays a second modal

Hi, In VB6, it was possible på set the XY coordinates and fonts for each
text in a document with the printer. properties.
How is this possible in VB.Net?
I'm only able to print with the same font and set the margins!

I work with serial ports all day. I know all about them from an outsiders
point of view, but I'd like to know all about them from a programmers point
of view. I'd like to make my own very 'very' simple terminal program using
VB to access the serial ports on a pci card. Eventually I ...

At design time:
On a form i have placed an adodc control.
When you build the connectionstring, it says something like:
Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data