VB Forum / General 2 / January 2005

Why the EXCEL process in the Windows Task Manager(Processes) does not
end after I execute the following code?
Private xlApp As Excel.Application
Private xlBook As Excel.Workbook

Made a screensave in VB for my work puter (simple variation on the bouncing
ball) and it works great except for one small detail. When I have a new mail
notification or simlar system msgbox popup the popup appears over the
running screensaver and the taskbar becomes visible. ...

Does anyone know how to start and stop already-installed Windows
Services using Visual Basic 6? I don't need to do anything else with
the services other than start and stop them. I'm using Windows 2000
Professional.

If I have something like this:
Public X as objectX
Private sub sub1
For L in manyobjectsX

Do you think that Visual Basic 6 is outdated language ?

I have an a VB 6 application with about 140 forms.
I generally exposed my form loads that need to be passed objects with
something like the following (I've included some calls to LogDebug in the
following discussion):

I have a VB 6 SP5 app deployed in a couple hundred locations as well as
running on a terminal services server at our facility.  I have one single
form which does the following:
Public Sub ShowFormView(o As clsSearch)

I've got a project that has numerous forms.  Everything has been working in
the environment until recently.  Something happened and the object
properties popup in the code window will not popup for some forms, but it
will for others.  Any ides?

I have a VB6 program that works fine on my system, and
on other people's systems in other parts of the world:
http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/drgmapcal/index.html
At the start of the program it reads in some plain text

I do have a program with source code that is written in VB6.
The target of this program is to switch relais on a board that is connected
to the serial port of the PC.
Unfortunatelly this program acts only in interactive mode, which means that

I have for a few weeks now been looking to improove my computer skills. I
have been looking at learning VB but would like to know what exactly I can
use it for!!! ( I said it may be stupid ) I would like in time to be able to
build a database type of application for my new job which ...

I have 5 text boxes which the user enters a number into each
say
2,3,3,5,6
I then have stored these in a variable, using val

Can someone point me in the right direction for getting this sorted.
when I run vb the windows installer popup and trys to load AutoCAD, if I
click on cancel it stops then trys again if I click on cancel a second
time vb loads fine. I then open a project, no problem, but as soon ...

When I first started with visual studio VB6.0 there was a packaging and
deployment utility that packaged the exe file and VB runtime.
Some friends recently told me that after Win Me was released the VB
runtime is part of the operating system so you only need to send the

I have moved a number of subs from my frmMain form
into a module and declared all the subs and variables
as Public. However, I cant get any of the subs to update
even a simple textBox on my form.