VB Forum / General 2 / January 2005

I have a multiline text box within a frame. I load a new instance of the
frame and text box with
   Load Frame1(1)
   Load Text1(1)

In Visual C++, you can call release on a COM object and make sure the
library gets freed by calling CoFreeAllLibraries.  I need to do
something similar in Visual Basic.  I need to be able to load the
library I need dynamically when I need to use it and release the dll

I know many of you are not fond of the multiple document interface, so I'll
give you that.  Still, I am stuck with working on one, and have a problem.
I periodically need to change the background image on the MDI form in
response to an event procedure which occurs on a child form ...

If SP6 contains all the previous packs why is it half the size of SP5
(or have I got a corrupt version)?

I have this function defined recursively. (My goal is to pass this
function into another function):
----
Function finder(ByVal myRecord As Integer) As Integer

I've got several textboxes on my form bound to Currency fields in an
Access database, set to 2 decimal places in the database design.
The fields, if whole number with no cents, don't display .00
Any way in VB to force it, or is that done in Access?

I have an inhouse database application that checks the contents of a
text file (located in the same folder on the server as the database)
to determine the latest version. It prompts the user to update their
version if not current and then closes the app. I would like to change

Can somebody tell me how to "ping" a specific port of an IP? I know
that "pinging" checks only, if the host is avaiable, without a port.
But i want to code a small programm, which checks, if a particular
service of a server on the corresponding port is avaiable...

Is there a way to manipulate scrollBars of listBoxes and txtBoxes?
What do I have in mind:
- width (make scrolls narrower or wider than default size - custom width)
- color (apply custom color to scrollBar)

Going a back bit I've lost the thread in more ways than one. I was told
that if I wanted to look at the first few bytes of a lot of files it
might be quicker to read a sector<?> cluster<?> rather than Get #... a
few bytes.

here is the code that is being used
lines beginning with *** are giving me the following error
run time error'3201'
object or provider is not capable of performing requested operation.

Q: how to make app disregard empty spaces while searching
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example:
I type in: "_total" or "total_" - I want app to search DB for "total"  ("_"

I am looking for advice on implementing 'Undo' and 'Re-Do'
whilst 'editing' an MSFlexGrid.
My grids can be large.
Up to 6 columns wide and up to 3000 rows or more.

Hello all, I am trying to write a program in VB that execute ipconfig,
write the ouput to a text file, read the text file into a varaible then
return just the IP address.
So far I have gotten everything to work except returning just the IP

I want to open the windowsXP-built-in-search-dialog. How to do this in
VBA?!?
thanx and nice day - Tino