VB Forum / General 2 / November 2004

I downloaded Microsoft's Visual Studio Installer v1.1 and installed it on drive E:.  What do I do
next to make it run?  Is there any documentation (tutorial) to explain what and how to use it?  Is
there an EXE file to run it? Does it run alone or from within VB6.  I have no idea ...

Hope someon can help.
I am reading data in from a file , parsing it and reading values obtained
into variables.
In the following example only the first charcter of each line is being

A friend's small business has gotten themselves in trouble.
Their only programmer has recently skipped the country and did not leave the
source code or any design notes for a couple of program modules. It appears
that he did all the work for those few modules on his own laptop and ...

sorry for my former posting in german i saw too late that this is a
english "speaking" gruop.
I have a little problem. Hoch can i avoid that VB rounds up a
integer/long value after division.

I'm using VB6 with MS Access 2000.
The sql statement below fails after I type it in and get a list seperator
or ) error .
Set rs = db.OpenRecordset("SELECT * from psusa WHERE

I have a Rich Text Box on a form, and I would like to pass it to a class
module. I have no problem passing the form object (frm as Form), but I can't
figure out how to pass the control.
I can reference the RTB control as, frmMain.RichTextBox1.Text = "", or

Hi, I'm coming back to VB for some work i need to do.  Last I used was VB3
and it had a API call called 'getnextwindow'.  It would take a window it
found and goto the next one of the same type.  Whats the VB6 equivelant of
this?

I need to serialize a class to a file and I'm having trouble with strings that
contain quotes or vbCrLf.
I save the strings with:
Open FilePath For Output As m_lHandle

Probably a stupid question, but I'm totaly new to programming...
Can I create programs with visual basic 5 that will work in WinXP???
Or should I install some extras before I start creating???
Thank a lot.

I have wrote a program that basically runs in the background and
copies any aim messages and chats. I am the parent of a teenage
daughter and I can tell you that this has been a very good resouce for
information about what your not told by your kids and the type of

i have a webbrowser control that is used to surf the net.
how can i capture the data that is sent to the server when a navigate event
is executed?
for example, the user enters username and password details on the page, then

wie kann ich verhindern, dass VB nach einer Division aufrundet.
Codeschnipsel:
Dim l_km_5 As Long
Dim help1 As Long

I discovered some weird bahavior with VB6/Win XP Pro.
First, I uninstalled Visual Studio, then reinstalled. I wanted to see
if Visual Basic 6 by itself on XP Pro, without any service packs,
exhibited the  problem I posted in my original post - it did.

Just a minor problem, but there the ones that annoy me!!!!!
My project browser window and properties windows have become dislodges from
the right hand side of the screen.  I can get the project browser to re-dock
but the properties window won't dock back where is came from. IE, it ...

For a few years now I have been writing VB/VBA front ends to connect to
SQLServer and Access backends.
As a project/learning exercise I'm sort of interested in writing a small RDB
engine myself, i.e. storing some data, accepting simple queries, locking