VB Forum / General 2 / August 2004

Hi Guys,
Copying (copymemory) a large_integer into a currency seems to produce
4 (don't know if always 4 ?) decimals in the result.
Is there a better way to get rid of the decimal as shown below, or is

I'm looking for Now() to be inserted in cell A1 of a sheet when the
sheet is deactivated if and only if the data on the sheet has been
changed.
Any takers??

In my spare time over the past few months I have been creating Solitaire
card games using VB6. The current game that I have just about finished
contains three games. An enhanced version of Spider, an enhanced version of
Golf and a game that I invented myself based on Brag where you ...

I have an application where I want VB to send the contents of a text
file to my default printer. After doing a google search, I found the
syntax for the shell execute command. Here is the code I am using:
ShellExecute 0, "Print", "D:\batch_files\list_tasks\list.rtf", "", "",

Hello to everybody !!!
When i get connected to the Internet i get a random IP address.
Is there a way to manipulate this address ?
I mean, hide it from others or even change it with a fake one ???

Hi. I am new to programming in VB.net, and am making my first application.
But I have no clue what I'm doing.
Somehow I managed to get most of the errors fixed, but I have six left with
the same problem: Identifier Expected.

I am rather new to VB (I received a free promotional copy of .NET 2003
from microsoft), but I hope my ignorance will be tolerated.  I am
trying to write a personal mail client that will send/receive
pop3/smtp mail, and also keep track of newsgroups that I have posted

I am looking for some answers to a few questions regarding the printer
object please
How can I retrieve the margin width in mm of the paper
Ian

Need Help
Ok here is the situation
Currently I have a project that has a ListView. At project start up, I read
a Access file and load the ListView (the ListView has 5 columns and x no of

I built a little browser with the WebBrowser feature in VB6 that goes
to an URL by command line (i.e. browser.exe http://yahoo.com).
Is there a way to make it so it does not launch a new instance each
time it is run through the command line?  I would like to have it just

Question: how do I empty Windows Trash-can (don't know the English word)
with VB.NET
thanks
Victor

I have a Sybase database and I've populated it with Arabic data. To do
that I used UTF-8 encoding inside the database. Now I want to view
this in VB.NET
I'm using listboxes, but when I add items to them I recieve garbage

Because the previous message did not post well I try it again.
Hi,
Something strage happens using FilePattern. I use the function below to
display

I have a TreeView control in a VB6+SP5 application.  (In fact, I have
dozens of them.)  I've discovered that if the TreeView has been
scrolled, such that the root node is no longer visible, and the node
currently showing at the top node is collapsed, the root node becomes

I'm running a database application with records of authors.
Many of those writers stil have no data (birthdate etc.) in the database.
Is it possible to send a query from the program, either directly to Google
or to Internet Explorer? If so, how?