VB Forum / General 2 / November 2004

I know the subject might seem weird, but I really want to use the
base/standard controls of VB as much as possible without having to use
external OCX (?) controls, as I feel it just gets messy the more you add
these in.

I have a text box that holds a list of words in a column. I would like to 1)
highlight a word in the list when the right button is clicked on it, 2)
highlight a word when the cursor passes over it. I'm not sure where to start
with this.

I have a form (say called info) that is called by 2 completely different
forms.
On this 'info' form I have 'Go Back' button, as I need to work as a
dual-purpose form for these other forms, but I don't want to put 2 buttons

anyone out there know how i would use vb.net to write a windows
service that would get the raw html from a web page?  i have to pass
an argument to a form to get to the web page i want to store.
specifically it is at:

How can I get a form to stay on top of an other form..
Lets say I have 2 forms.
frm_main and Frm_tool
When I show frm_tool (that doesn't show on the taskbar) on top of the

I'm searching for a routine that (maybe recursively) retrieves all dirs and
filenames from disk. I'm pretty sure that the functions Dir and Getfileattr
will be involved, but I can't figure how to code it. Can anyone help me ?
Thanks a lot in advance. Kindly

When running vb5-6 on NT4.
Service Pack 5 must be installed.
But I dont know, if this cure your problem.

I would like to add the compilation date to the About screen.  
I've drawn a blank.  I can't think of a way.  If I were to do
Label1.Caption = Now  it will show the current date when it's run.  
I can't think of a way to turn Now into a fixed/permanent string.

dear sir,
  i really don't know whether i should be posting this query on this
forum, kindly pardon me for this. actually i want that my VB
application should run on a specific computer and that too for

I am trying to get a web page on a site that is using FrontPage server
extensions 2002 which was used to create a "web" and require a username and
password.
No matter what I try, I keep getting a 401 response of not authorized. I am

i am frustrated:
I would like an Internet Transfer Control (MSINET.OCX) in a class (because
when I use a form, the form can't load if another form ist vbmodal, other
than that the form works fine, so I don't see a register problem).

HELLO SIR,
    I HAVE MADE AN ACTIVEX CONTROL (COMBO BOX CONTROL). I WANT TO
CHANGE THE BACK COLOR OF THE BUTTON AND MAKE IT APPEAR AS "PRESSED"
WHENEVER THE MOUSE IS ON THE BUTTON OF ACTIVEX COMBO CONTROL AND

I'm trying to display Unicode Japanese characters that are stored in a
file
"C:\t.txt".
Anyone have any code for doing this?  

Hi Again Guys,
I'm accessing a access mdb file using ADO with SQL statements.  I have
looked everywhere I can think of on the web but can't find out why the code
isn't working

This one is driving me nuts, and that's probably because I am just an
amateur and I find myself not being able to think this one through...
I have a control array of PictureBoxes. There will be any amount of
them on the form, as they are created dynamically by the user. There