VB Forum / General 2 / September 2004

Can anyone please point me somewhere, anyone with a bit more experience
can easily handle this. I am trying to write a program in VB with a MS
Access Database. Basically her is the scenario. My company is a BIG
Insurance company, and I have other (small) insurance company’s under ...

Hi there everybody, anyone tell me how to disable the Ctrl+P keys,?
trying to stop printing out of contents on webbrower

I am currently using VB to analyze data using MS Excel.  For ease of
looking at the data, I have multiple spreadsheets all in the same
workbook; each use the same program logic but with the input and
output specific to each spreadsheet.  To run the program for each

I need help with a VB app that will detect a USB device connection,
reads/assigns the device name to it, writes and verifys a file to it,
and ejects it.  I do not know where to start.
Any suggestions are welcome.

How can I get the difference between 2 dates/times and format is as DD:HH:MM:SS

I've an application which 'includes' an OCX which I've written myself.
Until today, we 'still' work in NT4 and I have no problems.
BUT !
When I run the same program in 2003/XP I get an error at the startup

I have two dates and calculate the total number of days with them
eg.
date1 = 10-9-2004
date2 = 15-9-2004

Has anyone come across a bug where the menu designer disappears?  The only
way I've been able to get it to come back is by creating a new form and
re-creating a new menu structure from scratch.
I'm using VB.Net 2003 Standard Edition.  I have ~ 150 to 200 controls on the

OK..I'm new to this and I have poked around and have picked up snippets of
code but nothing seems to work right. I have a delimited txt file that I
need to import and put in an array so I can extract data as required. The
file is in a work directory.

I'm trying to separate a number from a text string, using this code:
***********************************************
Private Sub Command1_Click()
Call Left2Char(Text1.Text, "*")

Have you any idea how to compare 2 BMP pictures? Perhaps I have
picture No. 1 with a white cat on it. Picture No. 2 has a green cat on
it. I want to know the numbers of pixels wich are different. The
Background is the same. The second I want is to now how different the

I'm trying to setup a form which is called from several other forms in my
app. Essentially I want the parent form to halt and wait until the user
closes the child form before continuing.
I'm doing this via the standard FindWindowLike method that you can find all

I'm writing a VB6 program which scans my HD recursively and writes some
file-info to an Access DB using DAO. After a couple of thousands of files, I
get an error 2004:  "Out of Memory".
My PC is not out of memory, actually, VB uses only 17 Mb, and my temp folder

I am trying to write a small program for printing out DVD covers.
I can get the covers for standard DVD cases to print just fine however, I am
having problems with the slim type cases.
The  slim cases have a 7mm spine instead of the normal 14mm spine.

Hello to all,
I've been playing with VB 6 for quite a while, and I find it quite a
powerful tool...  However, ever since I've begun with it, I've been
wondering about a thing: is it possible to draw easily with it?