VB Forum / General 2 / June 2004

Dear members of this NG,
Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm joining a Helpdesk for people with
room-heating on coal, while the whole world has central-heating on gas. The
questions about VB.Net in this NG increase and all we do is a standard

Hi, can someone help please?
I am using VB5
How can I get the printable area from the printer.
I am printing reports and on some printers (Epson and HP ink jets usually)

How can I use Visual Basic to detect whether or not a user has
Microsoft Word installed?

Something happened to my setup and now starting a new project results in a
can't find sub menu and no Form1 window opens.
I have reinstalled etc to no avail. I have a call in MS that is going on day
three. Any ideas how to change the startup object back to Form1 on new

I am using mcisendstring to play a group of short mp3's . In order to
keep the installation package as small as possible I have resampled
the mp3's  to 16 bit mono , sample rate 22050 Hz ,  60 kbs CBR
Bitrate. I would have liked to go lower if possible.

Are VB programs distributed from an XP development platform more likely to
encounter DLL problems on a range of target user's systems?
I have been distributing applications developed in VB5 and VB6 for a couple
years now.  Recently I switched my development from a Win'ME  platform ...

Hi.  Just a simple question.  I know how to launch the user's default
browser w/ parameters.  Is there a reliable way to launch only IE?  It
is possible that some of our clients have set their default to something
else.

Let's assume I have a class animal with two constructors.
   Public Sub New()
       Me.Name = ""
       Me.Weight = 0

I'm using CreateProcess from within my VB app to start a second VB
app. During testing I simply supplied "calc.exe" as the command line
argument when calling the function, e.g.
lngSuccess = CreateProcess(strNull, _

I am currently trying to write a simple game using vb.net
the form I am working on is 800*600 (this is set as the maximum size)
and autoscroll is set to true.  The user moves around the screen by
moving a picturebox (sprite) with the cursor keys.

Hello,
I am trying to split a XML file to multiple small xml files in vb.net
and am trying to get the best possible approach to this. Any help on
this will be great... Sample example on what I am trying to do...

i develop with vb6 and mysql 4.x.
after compilation i work with the programm without any problems.
when i finish the programm it remains in the taskmanager.
this is the first app. with mysql (before i worked with .mdb without

I'm desperate to get hold of a copy of Visual Basic 3.0 Pro Edition.
Anyone have a copy they'd be willing to sell me?  I've checked EBay
and nothing doing.
Regards

Please somebody clarify this following for me:
I am writing my own data packets to a binary file. Each packet I write
to the file is of equal length and format. For example each packet
will be 50 bytes in length and I know that the first byte of each

Is it possible to define the 'Like' operator with a patterns which
represents
(a) Zero or One
(b) One or more