VB Forum / General 2 / April 2005

Okay, it might be a tall order, but the only way VB is going to
continue is if it is rewritten from the ground up by interested
parties as a not-for-profit, open-source alternative (for Windows and
Linux) for when VB itself ceases life as we know it. It could be done

I've written the following code to print a .rtf file. The problem is
that the machine code of the file is being printed.
Here's the code. Please advise:
Private Sub Form_Load()

I need to build this API which connects to a company database through a
URL, establishes connection and sends an XML file through the
connection and in response it receives an output XML file.
Could someone please guide me how do I go about this project. I am a

I have code that executes a SQL query against an Access table and then
tries to use the result to build another query.  Problem is: to make
the new query I need to save some of the recordset field values as
strings, and I'm getting an "Object Required" error.  Here's a snippet:

Hi.  Thanks for reading this.  I suspect these are terrible newbie
questions but I can't find the answers in the documentation or the net,
so I am hoping some person will take pity and reply!
First, I am trying to mkdir a new directory in a module, and then copy

For some time now I have been working on a program, and now I reached the
point where I want to send certain users of the program an SMS if something
happens (for example,:an alarm while they are not in front of PC).
How do I do this? Do I need an analog modem? Calling the user's ...

I'd like to read out dialog boxes that might appear when my app runs. I
have already managed to get a list of all active windows including
handle using the EnumWindows function.
Now I would need something similiar to enumerate the controls of the

I want to create an activex control that displays an existing form
The syntax
Set frmmyfrm.framyfrmframe.Container = mycontainerframe
generates the error "Invalid object use"

How do I zero out multiple variables - instead of
Var1 = 0
VarABC = 0
Var89B = 0

I using the routine below to copy file to a network drive for a regular
backup process. Before calling this routine I using another function to check
the presence of the LAN connection and the server where the network drive
exists.

how can I determine the length of  an array made by the split command.   I
get subscript out of range if I go too far.
thanks,
Kirk

I am INSERTING records from an ADO recordset to a table in SQL Server.
Everything works fine except for any records that have a field value
containg an apostrophe ( ' ), these just fail. I have tried wrapping them in
quotes like I do for an Access table but no joy there. Any ...

Where can I download the help files of VB6?
I can not get through company ot friend .

I want to convert sequential file to be read as random using that
command
My.txt structure :
NNNNN PP CC

I have a VB app that uses serial ports to send formatted messages to a
production line printer (the type that prints best before dates etc onto
food products). This app is working fine, however if the app is not running
on a pc it is possible that another application on the pc may ...