VB Forum / General 2 / May 2005

I have a rich text box that I am importing text files to, and I want to
bold some of my keyword like "in", "the", "a".  Does anybody know how
to do this?

Adding text to a text box with the TextBox.AppendText method limits the
amount of text in the textbox to 32K.
I have a short program that uses the GetFiles function of the directory
object, then iterates through the returned array and appends the strings to

When you close a form does any connection to a recordset that you have
established via your code remain open?
I ask because users of this group often say that after using a record set it
should be closed as it uses the computers resources. However, I have an

I'm trying to find informations regarding how to read SRTM file (Shuttle
Radar Topographics Mission) using VB.
Please, Could you help me ??
Thanks in advance

I'm writing a macro for Word, and am stuck when I need the current
path, and to change the path of the file that is utilizing the macro.
A more descriptive explanation is that I have a folder structure as
follows:

I created an entire form full of control arrays by mistake in VB6 SP6.
Is there an easy way to convert them back to normal controls ?
Nick,

Can anyone tell me if the attribute of a combo box can be adjusted to show
more items? I have a box with 19 items, but on clicking only the first 8 are
shown and I would like it show more without using the sliding bar

I am having problems seaching for the double quote character in a rich text
box.   It always returns -1 when I look for chr(34), or """".
I have no problems searching for other characters - any suggestions?
This is the code I am using for the search

I have a VB program that will shell a command out to run on the local
machine based on specific options set in a form (using text boxes,
radio buttons etc...) I want to change one of the text boxes to have a
button so that a txt file can be imported. This text file will be run

I tried to insert date in oracle data using VB..but
gives me error 'Inconsistance data type'...
Can u suggest how i can do tihs?
Thanks,

Y'all:
I have a simple form with a text box on it.  When the user clicks out
of my application (e.g. double clicks something else on their desktop)
I want to make set my textbox.visible to false - to hide the text that

I'm writing a program in Visual basic (Visual studio beta 2005)
In this array I need to somthing like
array(0) = 0
array(1) = 1

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I noticed Microsoft have released a refactoring tool for VB.NET
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/2005/tools/refactor/
Is there a similiar (or any refactoring) tool available to plug into
"Microsoft Visual Basic 6"?

I tried to get an answer to this on microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion,
but none was forthcoming, so maybe it's a bug and I need a workround?...
I have a number of forms each with a common group of controls (having
identical code behind them).  For obvious reasons, it made good ...