VB Forum / General 2 / March 2005

Well, another basic type of question...amazing how much I've forgotten -
never was a VB guru, but.  I can see I'll have to pick up a couple VB5
instruction books - any suggestions on a couple good (basic level) learning
VB books?

When installing an app onto a machine running Win2000 I get the message
"File msvb6vm.dl outof date" Then asked if I want to update the file.
Respond with YES and the system requests to re-boot. PC reboots but still
comes up with the same problem when attempting to install the app.

Is there a way (API perhaps) that can extract the target from a short cut?

I have a VB 6 program that creates financial reports.  The user has
asked to have the report data dumped to Excel for further analysis.
This should be straightforward as I populate a table with the data for
the report to display.

I'm using VB6 and I know that using the Call statement (to call a method -
as in Call MyMethod) - is entirely optional, and that it's only been
retained to keep compatibility with the original BASIC language.
When I first started learning VB about 5/6 years ago I can distinctly

I'm pretty new to this, but here goes - In VB 6.0  I have a simple
application in the works.  In my main application window instance
frmMain I've instantiated something by dropping an icon on the visual
object - e.g an Label instance LableA.  It works fine - I can access

error: runtime error 5, invalid procedure call or argument.
VB CODE:
extra_spaces = 0
total_line = 150

I was reading an article on a brazilian Java magazine and that pointed to a
link (http://use.perl.org/~Mark%20Leighton%20Fisher/journal/19848).
Basically, this article is commenting specifically about the calendar
library in Java, which is limited by a long "variable" that counts ...

Who is spamming that post about "go to heaven" on a daily basis, on multiple
sites, with a varying number in the poster name? Has anyone read the post? I am
assuming it is porn or some such...

Hello, all.  I have a sorting function that quicksorts a string array I
pass in as a parameter and I want to adapt it to sort an array of a
particular data type (user-defined data type).  The problem is that I
also parameterize what field I'm going to sort on; for instance, say my

Looking for any ideas on the easiest way to validate the following.
A user can define different intervals where by each interval is
something along these lines
Interval StartDay EndDay StartTime EndTime

I've discovered that Intelllisense (AutoListMembers) will not work for
any object or variable in a Private Sub when I declare a Private Type
in that sub (it works fine in all other code except in this particular
sub).

  What I am  tring to do is having a form wgich resizes within
specified minimum and maximum limits as well as maintains its aspect
ratio while doing so. For this I have subclassed the form window and
intercepted the WM_SIZING and WM_GETMINMAXINFO messages. Basically I

Hi everyone, I could use some help in converting a simple Liberty BASIC
program to a VB.NET 2003 SE program.   I have built the simple form with a
label, text box and button,  Under the button I have inserted my Liberty
BASIC