VB Forum / General 2 / January 2005

I have a simple program that displays the Customers tabe in the Northwind
database that comes with SQL Server 2000. The CompanyName column in this
database is defined as NON NULL. However niether VB .NET or the SQL server
raise an exception when I set the CompanyName column to a ...

A Happy New Year to all.
Oh dear. I do try to keep my Q:A ratio at <1 but have failed :-(
My app. is creating a list of perhaps 20,000 or more path\filenames.ext
in files(). I need to find the first 10 bytes in each file to identify

I have an application that I was trying to convert to vb.net which contains
the msscript object to call custom perl scripts which msscript does great.  
After converting to .net the control doesn't seem to work the same, some of
the perl language such as opening and reading files ...

Hello...
I have been reading various questions and answers about transparent
blitting, and now I am really confused...  Yelp...
But this is what I am trying to do:  I have a small game that I want to

Does anyone know how you can store postions from a USB joystick into
variables?
Thanks Michael

I am currently creating a browser interface for our thick client which
was built on Visual Basic using COM ( a three tier environment). We
support environments where the database server is separate from the
application server.

is it possible to have a multi column combo box in vb6.
actually my requirement is , i have to populate a combo box with values of
3 fields from my table.

i am currently upgrading from vb5 to 6 and am having trouble with some of the
variations.  is there a good reference that shows the difference??
howard

Hi Frank
Sorry to contact you this way, but I had no choice :-(
As you may recall, my daughter is moving to Australia and she travels on
Tuesday. I know they have lots of other things to do, but her partner has

I'm new to programming and was wondering what the following means:
Requirements
 Header: Declared in Mmsystem.h; include Windows.h.
What are headers and how do I declare them?

i am now trying to create a table in vb6. the code that i used in vb5 doesn't
work.   also are there any good books that describe upgrading from 5 to 6 and
what the differences are?
howard

I have inherited incomplete source code for an active x dll.  The
project consists of a standard module and 5 class modules.
Looking at the calling code on the .asp side I see
Set objRS = Server.CreateObject("sts.sts_get")

   In the application I'm writing, I'm modifying a windows bitmap using the
circle and line methods.  Once the changes have been made, I would like to
save the bitmap with the changes.  My problem is, after saving the bitmap I
find that the changes haven't been saved with the new ...

Is there an easy way to have a VB app that is using label controls and the
Print method in picture boxes to ignore the font size setting in windows?
I have a graphical app that goes south when the user has his font size set
to Large fonts, at least in win2k.

I'm getting this message.
One of subs in my "masterpiece" doesn't want to fire up.
And I have no clue why.(I'm just starting, so no wonder why:)
I tried a few different approaches - same story.