VB Forum / General 2 / January 2005

I'm trying to simply replace the word "and " in a string with the ampersand
but can't figure it out.
Why wont this work?
pstrName = Replace(pstrName, " and ", " & ", 1)

does anybody knows, hot it is possible to change the picture in a
form?
I've got a form, which uses a pciture as a background. How can i
change this picture during the runtime?

One of our customers is having trouble installing our program which was
written in VB 3.
The error when trying to install on XP Pro machine is:
"C;\windows\system32\autoexec.nt . The system file is not suitable for

Hi, have you ever wondered how you would write a POP3 email server in VB6?
Well here's my source code. Spent about a day on this. I haven't run into
any bugs yet. Download the source code or binaries here:
http://serva.scieron.com/index.html

Hi, I'm a VB newbie and I keep getting this error saying "If block without
End If".  I have pored and pored over this code til I'm blue in the face and
I still see nothing wrong with it.  I guess I need more eyes looking at it.
I hope you guys can help me.  Your help will be greatly ...

Okay, this is dumb....
In gwbasic I can print using "#####.####"; 12.987654 and that produces  
,,,12.9876 (commas for spaces).
I've looked at buildstring, and tostring but nothing I've seen there gives  

I am using access database.
If i open access database and execute that query there is no problem.
But if i execute that query from vb6 i got incorrect results.
Here is my query :

We've been using DeviceIoControl (which uses Smartvsd.vxd I think) to
get IDE drive's serial number.  Typically this shows up as
WD-WMA12345678 etc for WD drives.
These calls did not work for SATA serial ATA drives as the available

Could anyone please help me? I'm looking for a function which checks
whether the computer is connected to the Internet (using VB6 on WinXP), and
if it can be helped, without resorting to registry manipulation.
Thanks,

Hi every one,
Is there a way i can code in vb6 to make the same set of controls
(mainly Cancel, Back etc buttons and a status bar) common to all the
forms without having to place on each form individually? For eg: If i

Help.....
PART ONE  - Laptop computer
I have a database app written in VB.Net that hits a MSSQL Server db
running on a W2K server.  I use SQL authentication.....  not windows

I have a VB appliction that runs an excel sheet and populates it with data
from various tables within a database. There is a lot of data that it
populates excel with and while it populates, I find that it runs quicker
if I drag the horizontal scrollbar a little to the left and hold ...

I'm new to custom events and having trouble.  No errors, but the
objThing_ThingChange() event won't run.  I must be missing something
obvious, but my books are not very clear.  What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.

I need to create a vacation tracking gui in VB6 that basically is a xy
axis type report. That allows managers and associates to block out days
that they have off. When other associates or managers come in they can
see what days the associates have blocked out. Does anyone have ideas

Dear Readers,
For my learning curve of VB .NET i want to make a traffic simulation
program. Before i start programming, i need to know if there even is a
possibility to make a algorithm in VB .NET that is able to let traffic