VB Forum / General 2 / September 2004

I have just about reached the end of my research on this one, so as a last
resort I was hoping I could get a definative answer from you guys.
Using my flat bed scanner , I have scanned in a CD. The result shows the
picture of the CD but shows a square outline around it.

Can someone please point me at a newsgroup for vb.net, I do not seem to
be able to find one!
tia

(Total VB newbie, plan to stay that way :-)
I would like to correct submitted time on a form-to-email web
application from Server Time to 'Customer Time' (i.e. subtract 3
hours). Is there a simple way to modify the VB function call:

There is going to be a button that has alternating text on it
depending on 2 choices the user can make.  How do you show button text
to say Add Package if the database says there are NO package items
associated with a certain product.  And if the product has package

Does anyone know whether it is feasible to create a Browser Helper Object
(BHO) in C / C++ (a BHO being a small extension to a web browser like IE
that allows the programmer to monitor and control an instance of a web
browser) that can talk to and pass on events to my VB program?

does anyone know how to disable the right click on a flash file?  (not
playing in a browser).
if so, please help?
thanks.

Please let me know what you think. You can download the project file
here:
http://dtsoftware.tallerworks.com/projects.htm
I'm thinking about making this whole thing into an ocx.

I'm reading and writing to a random .dat file I've created, and I'm doing it
often. My instinct is to open and close the file each time, even though that
may occur seconds apart ... I like it nice and neat.
Anyone have strong feelings against this? For frequent I/O operations do I ...

I have several commandbuttons in my application. Basically, each one
launches a different form (mdi child, but that's not relevant).
The commandbutton is a control array.
Therefore I determine which index was clicked and launch the

I was using Crystal Report 8 for my application. In
crystal report 8 while exporting a report to html the initial HTML page
will be saved as Reportfilename.HTML even when there are multiple html
pages being generated (i.e, Reportfilename.HTML,

I'm bringing up a form from a mousedown event in a list view.  The form has
just a bit of information the user may want to view.
What I would like to happen is for the user to press the mouse button and
hold it down to view the pop-up form and when the mouse button is released

I'm new to VB and I wanted to ask the following:
Is it possible to call a sub form another form (after i show the form) and
after the execution of the specified sub, go back to the next statement of
the calling procedure?

Hi all, need some help ' cause I just can't figure this one out.  I am
trying to find which char the cursor is located at within an text box using
the arrow keys.
Thanks

I am creating a sort of menu bar.
What I have is an MDI window as my main application window.
I have a picturebox control aligned left.
Inside that is another picturebox control. This one, let's call it

I have a text file (about 20 meg) where each record is 350
characters(+crlf). Back in the DOS days I Line Input opened the file and
printed the first 60 characters to the screen in a Do Until EOF(1), print
data$ fashion. It scrolled by slow enough for me to recognize any gross