VB Forum / General 2 / July 2004

   I'm looking for a lightweight flat ASCII data engine that can do some
basic sorting and indexing of extremely large CSV data files. I'm currently
working with about 400 million records or 60 - 120 Gb datasets so
disconnected ADODB.Recordset is out of the question. SQL server is ...

I am in the process of writing a simple program that uses a modem via
the MSCOMM control. What I want to do is have my program check for COM
ports that the user has, then after it checks for COM ports, check to
see if a modem in fact exits on each COM port that the user has. Then,

After running a cmd from Shell function, how does one find if the cmd
was successfully run or if it failed?
I've made an .exe from my VB project which is supposed to run a
command from the command prompt. Its supposed to take a file as

I have made my forms and objects on them so that they are in the required
position and the correct size for any screen resolution by matching  form
width & height to screen width and height and sizing objects accordingly
The problem I have is with  labels in that the font size is ...

I'm using cards.dll (cdtDraw) to draw card pictures for a game.  I want to
dim the picture for those cards that can't be played.  I don't really like
the 'idraw' options like wdGhostImage or some such.  I've looked at the
properties of the card images but can't find anything I think ...

Hi there everyone, I am running a website that requires a database that can
be accessed by by clients.
I  normally just write my software in visual basic and then distribute it on
disk but have now discovered how easy it is to write ActiveX conbtrols that

I've just completed a chapter in my VC++6 book that deals with context
sensitive menus (available on right-click etc) and suddenly realised
that I've never seen it done in VB - certainly the menu editor in VB
doesn't allow you to use the same technique, unless I'm doing something ...

While working on VB , recently I have faced a decimal sutraction
problem as mentioned below.
For example :
Current VB problem

Can anyone please help me.. I have some data in excel (various columns and
rows) and want to update cells (compare current value to a value in a
database) and if the value is different I want to update the cell with the
new value.. And then move onto the next cell and do the same ...

This is probably a very easy one but I just can't put my finger on the
communicating events name:-
I have a MDIform with a couple of child forms. The child forms scroll
vertically at run time using the automatically supplied scrollbars of the

I made a app that runs a few command line programs (ipconfig and netsh). I
want to be able to do the following.
1. run these in the background. Presently i am using the "shell" command
which works, but opens up a "cmd" window for a split second while the

I'm using VB6 and running Windows XP and have two questions.
1. I use a MDI-form and want to make a "flexible menu". There's a
menu-option "Web" which among others contains the option "Interesting
Links". This option contains a maximum of six selected links.

I'm using VB6 and running Windows XP and have two questions.
1. I use a MDI-form and want to make a "flexible menu". There's a
menu-option "Web" which among others contains the option "Interesting
Links". This option contains a maximum of six selected links.

Hi,
How do you change the main form in visual basic .net 2003?  
I have a form1 as the startup form.  Based on a user response as to
which mode to run the program in, i would like to transfer control of

I have the following...
Public Type Employee
   id as integer
   strName as string