VB Forum / General 2 / December 2004

I have an application for my company's HR department where we store
resumes for candidates we receive.  I have an application that uses
VB.Net and ADO.Net and data bindings (through code) to controls on a
Windows form.  The question I have is that once the database grows and

I am sure this is a foolish question but I am at a loss at how to do
this.  I need to write an application in VB 6.0 that takes a
hexadecimal number such as 3F670457 and coverts it to
0.9024099707603455.  I understand it is in IEEE-754 Floating-Point

Is there a way of determining whether an object is focused.
I.e. TxtName.Setfocus
Is there a way of testing if in fact TxtName is focused?

I have this script that runs a file and then plays a sound when the
file is done:
dim WshShell
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

I have found a problem in MS Office 2003. The problem is that when I
go to the VB editor in Excel or Word and lookup help, I do not get the
hyperlinks that is typically available in the help file. The problem
seem to be specifically targeted at Visual Basic.  The other Office

Is there anyway I can search an LDAP database from VB6 without
purchasing additional 3rd party software. All I have is VB6 plus an
LDAP database?
Thanks

I am currently using VB6 Package and Deployment Wizard  to create my
setup.exe's but this sometimes fails on some users windows platforms.
My question is do developers use a more up to date installation application
to create setup.exe's for VB6 apps? If so what package/deployment

The following code fails:
Dim lxAllProcesses As Process() = Process.GetProcesses
Moreover, enclosing it in a Try...Catch does not catch an error.  The code
simply stops running (in debug mode the application seems to hang).

   Table Oelsls contains all products bought (history) table Invt contains
the products to sell (Inventory) I'm trying with no success to list all
products in Oelsls table (field name in both tables: part_id) that are not
in the Invt table.

I am not aware of vb much..
I am going through a vb program which does serial communication. Here i
have
say

Amateur VB6 coder has a couple of queries:
1.  I am using to module of code I got off the web to play .WAV files. It
works but the system freezes while it is doing so. Is there any code that
doesn't do this?

on a NT machine my program is producing a GPF  during the load event of  an
MDI form. Here's the log from Dr. Watson:
Microsoft (R) Windows NT (TM) Version 4.00 DrWtsn32
Copyright (C) 1985-1996 Microsoft Corp. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

I have a spreadsheet that has 52 columns, one for each week in the
year.  The sheet has many rows and each cell has an index formula.  The
problem is that excel has a problem calculating all of the formulas in
a reasonable amount of time.  I would like to delete all columns except

Please help me on how to plot graphs in VB 6.0.
I have an array [X] and an array [Y] and i'd like to plot X vs Y.

My program will be reading data from an MS Access Database.
The database has 2 tables plus a 'Query' table which combines their data.
Can VBasic read data directly from the Query table, or must I read data from
the 2 underlying tables separately?