VB Forum / General 2 / February 2005

I am very new to programing.  I am using VS.NET.  I am making a Windows App
with 4 forms.  In the start up form you click a button to open #2 or 3 or 4.
When that happens I want the start up form to close.  Then when you close
whatever form you opened how do I get the start up ...

If anyone can steer me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it.
I have a class with several properties.
I have an event which I want to fire whenever any property changes.
I've therefore Raised the event in property Let procedures.

I'm writing a program using the Shell command, but I want different
things to happen depending on which programs are running (other than my
VB app of course).  Anyone know how I can make Visual Basic return the
names of other programs/processes?

We're converting an old database using text files for input and output.
Their solution for Y2K has 48 years subtracted from the date field..  Our
input now has the year field with 48 years less (i.e. 2000 is 1952).  In VB,
how do we add 48 years?

I've been googling this for a while with no adequate result.
Is it possilble to enable changing the opacity of a form and all its
contents in VB6? API perhaps?
I have code to make a form completely transparent and leave the

I have some forms that will not have Titlebars, but I want them to
have titles in the taskbar. There will be multiple forms from the same
application, and they will each have different titles, which are
dynamic. Any way to have them appear properly in the Taskbar even

Hi, total newbie here, so apologies in advance for what is probably a
stupid question. When I attempt to debug a program, I get a "There were
build errors" message. This is the first time I have had this message
and without being able to debug, I'm clueless. Is there any particular

First, I apologize if I'm not addressing the right group - for some
reason the new Google grouping system is utterly confusing to me and I
don't seem to be able to find the groups like I used to.
Anyway - here's what I am doing:

Please can you help with formatting
My program calculates a 'countdown' in seconds (dimensioned as Integer) and
displays it in a label control caption.
If the countdown is greater than 60 seconds, or perhaps greater than 1 hour,

I am trying to download multiple webpages simultaneously. I am using
(as an example):
URL = "www.google.com"
Set IE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")

I'm trying to find info on how to create a quick launch shortcut with VB,
and I'm stuck...  :-(  I sure hope you guys can help.
When my program is run for the first time, I need it to ask the user if a
quick launch button should be created.  By quick launch I mean the shortcuts

Hey guys,
I'm new to Visual Basic but it looks like the best place to start with
regards to my project.  
Do any of you know how I would gather input from a USB joystick and

Hi,  I am using Excel and I would like to count the number of cells
that are being highlighted.  I wrote something like this
COUNTIF (A1: D90, Color = "Yellow").  But it is not working, I think
the problem might have been with the criteria part.  If someone can

How do you change ToolTip display font  size?
I'm interested in learing how to make the tooltip font size larger. I
think if I can change the size of the
tooltip font I should be able to achieve this purpose. But how???

Is there an option to unload the current form on the click of a
combobox? I want to unload the current form and go to next form.
It gives me an error on unload. is there a workaround such that i can
unload this form completely before moving on to the next form ?