VB Forum / General 2 / August 2004

I have just completed a program that pulls out user defined
information from a file. (i.e.: states, job titles, etc) and writes
this infomration to a file.
I would like to do a sort of 'add value' and count how many of the

i am trying to run visual studio.NEt on my XP Laptop. i am getting an
exception.
thats says overflow/underflow error. i am unable to use any controls.
can u help please.

I was hoping to start up a discussion on the pros and cons of VB6 vs
VB.NET. Specifically, why should someone switch from VB6 to VB.NET? On
the other hand, why should someone not use VB.NET (besides learning
curve which is my current reason)?

I must have installed a program on to my PC that put quite a few .bmp files
on to the hard drive. Loads and loads of images that can be used for tiling.
They are all in
"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Crystal Decisions\1.0\SSChart\Textures"

I have created an Access database frontend with Visual Basic and I am
expieriencing a problem.  When I open the program and run it
everything works fine the first time.  All of the records are present
in the database.  But after the first use, everytime I open the

i have saved the .frm files in txt format,but i cannot open it in vb6,
would u please give me any suggestion?
thanks in advance.

This is pure locgic - so I give up :) But I have to ask you guys with the
brains: How do I get "VAR" to take the word I type into the combo-field? As
it is now it will seach for the word "VAR"
<DATA TYPE = "BUTTON">

Why does the finally clause in the Test method (below) NOT execute in
my "foo" example, but DOES execute in my "bar" example?
   'Test-Finally does NOT execute
   Private Sub foo()

Thanks to all those who assisted me with my last question re: What is the
best way to produce WYSIWYG pages for viewing and printing.
I think that I have mastered the form with scrolling picture box method, it
looks fine but still lacks that windows application feel.

I am completely stuck on how to best approach a seemingly simple
problem of creating a new field in an ADODB.RecordSet object.
What I have is a populated RecordSet with multiple fields and rows,
but I need to add a new field to this RecordSet.

I'm sure that the line where the breakpoint is set is executed, but the program doesn't want stop on that breakpoint !
To make things more complicated, after few compilation the breakpoint becomes
active.

Is there a book, or a list of some sort on the web, that lists Basic
commands, functions, objects, etc. by category? For example, if I want to do
something with a string (or some other subject), I would like to see all the
commands, functions, etc. that are available for strings. If ...

I have made a navigation program. The navigation screen is setup in a
picturebox which is based on the vessel position.
NOW, I would like to be able to load bitmaps (e.g. a scanned sea chart) into
the above mentioned picture box as background charts.

Hi friends
I am trying to send email using following code.
but my problem is that it is giving "login failure"
I think some signon problem.

I'm trying to broadcast a UDP packet with the socket APIs (and not a
winsock control)
I have this so far, but it's not working:
' --begin--