VB Forum / General 2 / August 2004

I have an array of command buttons which I set to 'enabled' in my program.
This is done individually on seperate lines of code e.g.
cmdButton(0).Enabled = True
cmdButton(1).Enabled = True

Could someone please recommend a good introductory book to Visual
Basic written for programmers who have had little or no exposure to
Windows? I am a C++ programmer and have only worked on Unix/Linux so
far, so I understand very little about DLL's, COM, ActiveX, etc, but I

Hi ! I have a problem with my visual studio 6.0 installation. After an
automatic Windows Update for the internet explorer two menu points
"Project\References" and "Project\Components" in the visual basic 6.0 IDE
were gone.

Can someone please tell me if i can get handle to CD using MciSendString?
Any help will be appreciated
Thanks.

Does anyone know how i can load an image into either picture or image box
then drag the corners at runtime to enlarge or shrink it.

Is it possible to assign the Picture property of a picturebox to the
Picture property of an image control?
I use an invisble picturebox to make some changes to a picture, but I
want to show the picture in an imagecontrol, since the image is very

I'm not sure if this is an active directory issue, or a VB issue. I've got
some code to convert an NT login name to a Distinguished Name so I can query
an Active Directory server. Unfortunately, it always returns an empty string
instead of the distinguished name.

can anyone tell me what type of control "intrinsic control like
commandbutton,textbox,listbox etc" are?
are they some kind of activex control?
where are they located in the registry?(i am using win2000 sp3)

I was wondering if someone could explain to me what the difference is
between the width propery of the picture property of an image and the width
property of the image itself.
I would have guessed that when the stretch property of an image was set to

This is not  really a VB question, however, i am stuck  a modem problem
The modem is connected to a cristie teleport with a speed of 9600 bps.
How can i set the modems DTE speed at fixed to 9600 bps ?
sometimes, the modem has a different DTE speed, i have to disconnect the

can anyone tell me what type of control "intrinsic control like
commandbutton,textbox,listbox etc" are?
are they some kind of activex control?
where are they located in the registry?(i am using win2000 sp3)

I currently have the following VB code in a MS Access Database which I use
to send emails. Nonetheless, it opens Outlook and I would like it to send an
email using Outlook Express. Could anyone please oblige in ammending the
code for me, so that it uses Outlook Express 5?

Hello everybody, I'm writing a VB6 program to show images and I'm
using the picture box object to create thumbnails "on fly". This works
fine, but the image quality after resize is poor.
I'm looking for an object (possibily free) that works like the picture

I'm having a problem with a query using a wildcard on an Access DB.
This is my query:
SELECT * FROM Cities WHERE Name LIKE 'Amster*'
I also tried the SQL standard: ... LIKE 'Amster%'

Help,
Below is a Sub excerpted from a Visual Basic 5 Graphics programming book,
using the older palette method for color. Can anyone lead me to some info so
that I can convert this code to VB6, using the newer RGB color methods? Any