VB Forum / General 2 / November 2004

Don't know if this can be done, but I suspect some of you might.
Basically, all I want to do is change the icons of files my very small
and meager program creates from the standard windows icon to one of my
own choosing. Is this possible?

I'm looking for a program fo printing reports from VB.  Now someone has told
me about crystal reports and when I went looking on there site I noticed
that there are 4 possibilities:
- standard

Im trying to start another application from within my vb.net program using
the process class. i want to start it, capture the stdout and stderr and
print them to a textbox.
I get something when i run ipconfig, but nothing when i run the command to

I am not very good at VB but I have a WIN32_FIND_DATA structure
wherefrom I try to print the cFilename part like this.
msgBox(myfileInfo.cFilename & "More text")
cFilename is of type String * 260

I have a VB6 project using the ADO.  The Connection String wants an
exact location for the database.  I don't know which directory the
user may install the software.  Below are the Name, ConnectionString,
and RecordSource for the ADO from the Properties Table.  How do I

In vb.NET i am trying to use showdialog() for a modal form.  The form loads
except that when i ask it to give me messages or errors it give me them 12
times.  If i just use show() for a modeless form it just gives me them the
once which is obviously what i want, however the form ...

I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction.  This is outside of
my experience with VB.  I have an application (written in VB.NET) that
allows a user to enter a part of the file name and all matches in a specific
directory are copied to the user's desktop.  It's a ...

I have for a time used wmp 6.4 ocx in my vb6 music project. I now want to
upgrade to wmp10, but met a problem. I want to play two mp3 files
simultaneously (fadeout/fadein) but it won't work. Player 2 seems to hang
when player1 plays. This was not a problem when using wmp 6.4...

Have you ever had this problem where a connection string will work in
the ADODC component but not in a ADODB.Connection ??
for example the following string : Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;Integrated
Security=SSPI;Persist Security Info=False;Initial

Dim A
Dim B
A=25
B=Int(A)

I've created a class project (.dll) in VB.NET that I would like to use in a
VB 6.0 project.  I register the class for COM interop when compiling and I
can read/write/use the properties and methods but the Intellisense feature
in VB 6 does not display the public properties etc.  How ...

OK then,
 My scanner is connected to the keyboard wedge, the keyboard wedge is
connected to the internet communication control, the icc is connected
to the ethernet, the ethernet is connected to the hub and my PC is

I use vb5 on winXP.
I need to know Api´s and codes to my
application that will chance the comma to
dot under the country codes. And a

I am having trouble translating the following lines of Visual Basic
code to C.
   For iCounter = Len(sReference) To 1 Step -1
       iSum = iSum + Val(Mid(sReference, iCounter, 1)) * iMultiplier

Opening an application through shell command. The program has a status
line(bar) like in Excel.
Q: Ist it possible to read the status line(bar) of this shell command like
you can read the window name of that program?