VB Forum / General 2 / October 2004

I'm completly new to VBA (I normally program in Matlab).  I need to
write an add-on for an Excell spreadsheet.  What I need to do is make
a user sortable list.  The listbox/textbox/combobox needs to have a
multiple rows each with one item on it.  The user needs to be able to

is there a way to let a VB program find out the IP adress  of the pc on
wiche the program is running and put the IP in a variable?
thanks 4 helpin me

    I'd like to make an explorer like Explorer of Windows in left where it
display the directories.  How to make this with vb?
Raymond H.

I need my app to send via winsock the record number of the record selected.
The ID (autonumber) isn't correct because of delete records.  Is there a
property in ADODB Recordset that returns the record number?
Gavin

Hi, I'm after some general advice please.
I'm an experienced VBA programmer, which due to VBA limitations, needs
reach below the VBA programming level to Windows API.  I've used VB6
in the past and found it fairly straight forward.

I am trying to use telnet to run a program on another box.  I can do it in
perl but when I try in VB, it connects but gives garbage characters.
There doesn't seem to be any other thing for me to try.  There are not that
many methods in winsock.

Hi, im using VB.NET 2003 and I keep Getting a "bad Filename or number"
error when trying to write data to disk which is returned from a
remote server.  The data returned is a byte array and im opening the
file for write in binary

I just picked up this book and I think it looks extremely interesting,
but it is a little dated.  It is pre .net and also mentions IE 5 as
not supporting some functionality from IE4.
Does anyone know if the topics covered in the book are still supported

G'day all,
I want to load comma sep text files and display it in a grid. I'd like
something simple and lightweight. Don't need to edit it in grid, I could
do that in textboxes if required.

I am very new to al this so if anyone can give a pointer I would appreciate
it very much.
What I want to do is get a simple vb script to add 2 numbers but if i use
the following code then instead of the "+" sign numerically adding the

I have been experiencing a couple of problems with several apps compiled on
a winxp box and VB SP6 and then distributed to various clients (mostly SP2).
The programs are memory intensive and when deployed on the client machine
the programs crash citing that there is no more memory ...

I have build a recordset in ADODB selecting multiple fields from
multiple tables. This is working fine.
But now I tried to add a field to this recordset and I get an
error message saying Connection Failed.

i have a frame, where i can add controls in at runtime.
but he frame has an end so (on my project) after adding 13 controls
thecontrols aren't  visible anymore becouse they get placed out of the
frames edges.

When I try to install visual basics a message comes up that I need to
reinstall acmboot.exe and I can not figure out how to reinstall it any ideas
on how I reinstall it?

If you set the flag for an overwrite prompt using the 'Save' common dialog,
how do you read the response when the user clicks the Yes or No in the
'overwrite' message box?
Everything I've read explains about setting the flag to bring up the