VB Forum / General 2 / December 2004

A question from a VB rookie.
I have the following:
- ADO Data Control with RecordSource set to a table in a database
- Checkbox with DataSource set to the ADO Data Control and DataField

My program reads a text string from a text box. I want to pick out the
individual words, ignoring punctuation, capitals, and spaces, loading each
word into a separate string variable.. I think this is called parsing?
I've looked up parsing in Help - no luck.

Are there any visual basic code lister programs out there besides
PrettyCode.Print?
* Robinson

Where can I get VB programming software for free ? Is this possible at all ?
I am not looking for the latest version which MS is selling, and they don't
maintain older versions anyway. VB 5.0 would be OK I think.
Thank you

i can't run my application in visual basic. I get the warning CAN'T
EDIT MODULE. When i close VB and open it again it runs fine.
Any suggestions pls
thx Glenn

I'm using the PrintWindow API to generate thumbnails of windows but it's
causing lag. This is because the main code stops until the API has
completed. I decided to create a second exe to geerate just the thumbnails
which is started on demand from the first exe using the Shell ...

I originally distributed my VB program using Microsoft Installer. Now I've
made some changes to the main exe I want to distribute it again as small
upgrade.
Trouble is if I use the installer it will open a dialog (Do you want to

Does anyone know where I can get a list of the basic formatting codes
for VBscript?  e.g. the carrigage return & Chr(13)&
Using it to send an email/task etc to staff and want to make it look
bit more user friendly than Plain text format.

Why is it that after I close an ADO recordset defined locally
   Dim adoRS as New ADODC.Recordset
that so many examples insist that I should set it to nothing as well?
   adoRS.Close

Is it possible to have a VB6 program send some kind of message to an
already open workbook (something like an event). The problem that I
have is that I want to write to an already open excel file. If I can
let the excel file know that a change should occur (data has been

I have recently purchased vb.net and have made a program i wish to compile
to an exe file. Does anyone know how to do this?
I have looked in help but it doesnt say

Does anyone know how to interface with the USB ports in VB5?
I know how to interface with the parallel, serial and game ports but I have
had no luck with the USB ports yet.
Thanks,

Oh dear, once again I seem to have hit a brick wall. Here's my VB6, code
heavily snipped, all in Module1.
Option Explicit
Public Type rodend

I know that this is not a .NET news group but I am seeking the
reaction of VB "classic" developers.
It seems that the product is aimed at the same audience as VB3 and is
an attempt to regain the inexperienced and/or hobby programmers. The

I'm performing a bitwise comparison. The result returned isn't expected:
Dim bNetPrinter As Boolean
Dim bLocalPrinter As Boolean
Dim lVal As Long