VB Forum / General 2 / July 2004

I'm not an experienced user of VB6, but created a nice application for the
school of my kids.
Now that they created a network (Based on Windows XP Server ?) I want to
change the application. I want to determine the active user that logged on

I have an application that when compiled into exe file takes up abot
7.5 MB. With the intention to decrease the size of the compiled exe
file, I went ahead and transferred some of the generic functions
module into a new ActiveX DLL project in such manner that all the

I'm totally new to VisualBasic . I'm getting the following error while
trying to create
a new project under "Web application"
"Visual Studio .NET cannot create or open the application because no

registering or unregistering ocx, dll, ax files with a single click
below is a reg file that will allow you to add the register or
unregister commands to the right-click menu.  This is great when you
need to unregister a bad codec like one from nero.  Just copy the

Visual Basic 5 & XP Pro
Is there an equivalent command to the old DOS Xcopy in VB5?
I can use the Shell routine to run 'Xcopy' externally and it runs fine until
the Directory

Is this the default and expected behavior for vb.net?
'C' and 'C++' used to skip b() if a() was not true, because there was no
way the IF expression would ever be true.
For example, if you did something like:

I wrote a program in VB 6 Pro and I was wondering how I can get it to show
up in the window that tells you what programs are available to switch to
when I do an alt tab.
Sometimes the only way I can find my program after I minimize it to the

What would be the best way to determine and resize a user-control when I
load a new picture into it (via a property)?
For example:
If I add the user control to my form and then change the picture property of

I try to query the record MemberID = <some number as long type>. I don't
know what symbol I have to patch to the sql string to open the DAO
recordset, can someone shed some light on this please.
Here's my sample code

Why when I run the following code does VB return £38,018.00.
MsgBox Format("1/2", "Currency")
I know it is not a currency value that i've entered but I was just wondering
why such a strange value.

I would like to know if there is a way in VB to check if IIS and SQL Server
are installed on the machine from any OS (2000 pro, 2000 serveur, XP, 2003
serveur, NT4...).
Thank you in advance.

I'm no genious, so my code may be strange, but...
I have a function in my VB application which is called at some point when
the program is launched.
I have listed the entire function below.

Help!!!
I'm trying to port a VB application which runs out of the macro/VB
feature of Excel to a Panther running Office 200? on MacOX.
Basically, I'm just trying to load a picture.

We need to purchase a good VB6 data grid and hope someone might offer some
recommendations.  Thanks!

We have a problem installing our VB6 application on another server.
Another company working for our client created some ocx files that we
have to use in our application. Someone from this company manually
installed these ocx files on our development server (using