VB Forum / General 2 / June 2004

Greetings;
What is the best code efficient way to check an textbox for proper date
format? ea. mm/did/by
example;

Hello, I am an Intern this summer at a law firm and I am rebuilding
the database front end and back.  I have been stuck at this point for
a week and am quickly falling behind.
Scenario---I need to find out which cases are “owned” by

My application creates a file from user entered data.
I am currently using the Shell Execute API to email the manager of the
project,
once the day's file is created.

I'm studying some vbcode and see different types of declarations for a hex
value.
Const FBC = &H80
and

Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 842329 addresses the ASP "HTTP 500 -
Internal server error" after installing VB6 SP6 and provides the workaround.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;842329

I'm just about to start writing a little Calendar / Organiser utility
(something very simple that I can use to store various anniversaries and
important dates and that will alert me automatically as each event date and
time approaches). I've never done this kind of program before ...

Hi there, I am trying to get a visual basic user document "filename.vbd"
file to work on my website.
The book says that it can be done, and it all works on my machine, but not
over the web, the computers that I have tried to access it with come up with

I am putting together a simple app that uses vscroll bar controls. My query
is this: I have max set to 25 and min set to 0. When I use the upper arrow
the value decreases instead of increasing. I have to set max to 0 and min to
25 to get the controls to behave as you would expect. ...

I have a MDI form with a single child form. The child form is approx twice
the height of the MDI parent. I want to scroll the child form (MDI form?) by
pressing the Page Down / Page Up key, similiar to the way MS Word works.
I've tried to accomplish this with the SendMessage API, ...

I gather the following two files part of the Windows installation.
Does anyone know if they are supplied with all versions of Windows or not.
riched32.dll
richtx32.ocx

I need to get the contents of an open web page in IE6 on to the Office
clipboard for further processing using VB6.  Does any one have an idea of
how to do this programmatically? At the moment I use a manual Cntl-A,
Cntl-C, but can't believe that this can't be done with VB.

I'd like to open a file for binary access
 Open "C:\Test\myfile.bin" For Binary Lock Read Write As #1
Unfortunately if the file does not exist an empty file is created (Visual
Basic Documentation: If the file specified by pathname doesn't exist, it is

Is there any way in VB 6.0 to get milliseconds from the Now() function using
Format function or anything else?
Please let me know.
Thanks,

Been away from VB for awhile and have forgotten how to determine what
reference is missing when I goto to the project References pile. Of all
things to get error on is "then goto x" being flags in 1st run. Yes, I know
I am missing a reference, but which one?

When is a Paint event triggered on a user control? Reason for my asking is:
if I change the global colouring in the Display Properties applet, my user
control (which uses these colours) doesn't change immediately. How do I get
it to update itself with the rest of the apps window?