VB Forum / General 2 / February 2005

Anyone got the code for a ftp function?  Ideally it would have password,
server, file name to download or upload and user name as parameters.
Thanks Michael

Can I anywhere find new visual basic (full version) for free download. I
would use it for education purpose.
thanks

I'm using ShellExecute API to launch everything from EXEs to shortcuts. It's
part of a toolbar for my app that has the desktop icons on it. All works
well, except for a dial-up shortcut that I have on my desktop. If I click on
the icon once, I get the dial-up box. If I click on ...

following my diploma works I'm about to write a unsiversal
configuration program for a 3D-CAD-System (SolidWorks at writing
time). Using VB6 and ActiveX I can basicly communicate with the
CAD-System.

I've dusted down a "jukebox" style application and need to add
functionality that allows users to select and enqueue mp3's for playing
over the duration of several hours. In addition, the application itself
will also enqueue songs automatically should the list of submitted

I wrote some code for a Rockwell automation app where I could use
Me.Controls().  For example,
Me.Controls("lblP" & strBufferID).Visible = True
for a group of labels named lblPx, where x is 1-30.

I have a page-length (printed page) VB6 form.  The problem is that when I
display it on the monitor, I can only see the upper half.  How can I add the
whatchamacallit at the right of the screen that allows you to slide the
image up and down on the display screen?

I am using the following function for decimal numbers but I have a neeed to
convert hex to binary.
Public Function Binary(Number As Long) As String
If Abs(Number) > 1 Then

I had a Visual Basic Project files which I had created years back.
I deleted them ( by mistake).
I have the .dll, .exp and .lib files that were created by the VB6
project.

How can you save a text box's text as an external .txt or .rtf.
Thanks.

Im using some scripts as a ASP page, it generates the HTML content fine and
it all works, but the problem is that the entire page has to be loaded into
a single data line...
such as this for example

I have a subroutine which pauses a program for a number of seconds, eg.
pause (600) for a 10 minute pause.
Private Sub Pause(secs)
Dim start As Variant

We have a problem with a suite of VB apps which only shows on 2 Windows 2000
PCs.
The first app is a "menu" (No communications, just a shell call to a
selected app) which asks for an ID and password, and an option to run one of

how I can start a File with the defined default application. I want to open
a .pdf file. The shell-command requires the full path to the application and
the file to open. Are there any other solutions?
nice day - Tino

Ok, I found a simple 2 line example to play a wav .vbPlaysound at
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~saul/vb_examples/   It works as a stand alone
program but when I drop the code into my program. I get variable not
defined.With Snd_Async highlighted. I did put the Snap.wav in the same