VB Forum / General 2 / September 2004

I am fairly new to VB6 and Access databases.  I want VB6 to create the
Form and controls for the database.  Currently I'm using Sam's
Database Programming with VB6 as a guide.
1.  I create a blank project.

I am currently writing an FTP client which is fully functional and works,
yippee. However the DirListBox defaults to app.path and I would like it to
point to %userprofile%\My Documents by default. How can I get vb to
recognise built-in Windows environment variables.

I have a copy of MSVB Enterprise edition that I have been given by my adult
education centre.  I works perfectly but obviously I cannot make .exe files
with this version.  Is there any way around this or should I continue to use
the full version of MSVB at college to make my .exe ...

A user of my program reported that the font size is too large for a
number of controls. A screen shot shows that the font size on buttons,
labels, and other controls are too large for the controls. (There are a
few thousand of these programs running without a reported problem.) I ...

I am told to make a parking management system software. The program
should automatically print tickets. How do I make the program orders
the printers to print tickets?

It is possible to compile vb6 code to run on a pocket pc?
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Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).

I have an application that creates an e-mail with a specific Subject
and Body text.  This application has been working well with older
versions of Outlook, but in Outlook 2003 the body text is not shown
when the composing e-mail pops up.  What's really weird is that if I

Is there any way in the VB IDE to sort my functions and subroutines so
they appear in alphabetical order?
At the moment they appear to not be in any particular order.  For
example "Private Sub cmdNewRec_Click()" appears before "Private Sub

i have a big problem :-(
i need to loop line by line through  a unicode text file
if i use below code on Ansi text files it works like expected ,, however on
unicode files i receive sections

I have visual basic .net and i need to export an application. How can i do
this ?
Is visual studio .net absolutely needed for creating a setup ?
Thanks

Is there a way to tell the DATA REPORT to automatically show a particular
record instead of starting with the first one?

I have a form with a MSFlex Grid and I want to copy the grid to a new
word document. Haw can I do it?
VB.6 and Word 2002
Thanks

What are .ldb files? and why is created when i try to open a mdb file then
it blocks access?

In my code, I need to terminate or close a running program. Its listed
in Windows Task Manager as desklook.exe
I have used the following code to close outlook before, but can't find
the right syntax to make it work with this program desklook.exe

For Someone with experience wit data Reports.
I need to make a full page report.
I have a .mob file with 2 tables, Clients and Payments
the Payment Table has a reference to the clients table (Cliental)