VB Forum / General 2 / February 2005

What should we do, what should we do?
We're a very small company, 60 people, office and shop.  We use VB 6.0
very intensely to track production, inventory, purchasing & sales.  VB
works for us very well.  If I need a new report, I tell my friend the

Im trying to serialize an object!! Now im new to Vb so the way I have
set up my object may be wrong so ill start there...I have a class
called Order that contains..
Public product As String

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Sorry if this is dumb question, but I am writing a program in VB that
downloads a set of files from the internet, not problem with that.
I do not use functions a lot, that's why I got stuck now probably.

I have an app that uses a crosshair pointer in certain forms.  This
has worked OK in the past (on earlier OS) but on my new (xp Pro)
laptop it appears as an I-Beam pointer.  I have seen this problem
posted elsewhere but no solution.  I seem to think it was Ok with an

What is XSD, also what is a DataRow relating to VB

I would like create a program for manage my files Mp3.
I find the properties (name,title,author and comments) of the files
with (objFolder.GetDetailsOf)
example:

I'm just started wit an application in Visual Basic.
I connected a USB barcode scanner and I just want to read out the com port
and put this value into a variable.
Anyone an idea how to do this in an easy way? Can someone help me on the

I have run the so-called solution to the above problem ie I downloaded
VB6Cli.exe and it ran successfully to state '  licences succesfully
installed etc. '   BUT IT STILL DOES NOT WORK.
It appears that many others have this problem as well - any [ working ]

Russian text dispalys fine in all text boxes, combo boxes etc...
'basic code is this
lFoundPos = rtb.Find(sFindString, , Len(rtb))
rtb.find method wont work with russian cyrillac text, just returns -1

I am new to the VB language and am using VB.Net 2002.  I am taking a class that tries to teach you how to program in 5 weeks versus 12 weeks like a standard programming class, so I am a little pressed for time.  Part of the class is a discussion in a newsgroup on different things ...

Any way to make the .find method of the richtextbox work with unicode
text?
I have everything else working on a unicode project.
I can display unicode text in the proper language, but the .find method

Can anyone in the group tell me what might be wrong with my logic here?
I want to rotate a picturebox relative to the center in degrees
so what I did was to scan a circle around the center and read each pixel's
point color into an array.

  I am a VC++ guy but I am new to VB and I am working on a TreeView1
control .
  I have to change the icon  when I rename the tree  node . Can anyone
tell me how to acheive the same . In VC++ I would have used some

I have my program working in any langauge I test. But only by going
into control panel, regional settings and choosing the language under
the advanced tab.
So I have an english version of XP and set it to Russian or Chinese and

Are there any compelling reasons to use one over the other?