VB Forum / General 2 / May 2005

I would like to read commands from a file and execute them in VB, something
like reading str = "hello world" into VB and execute it. Any suggestions
will be appreciated.
Thanks,

I would like to download the final MSDN Library for Visual Studio 6. Can
someone suggest where I might find it?
Thanks,
Lance

I bet i have a ton of old forms and modules that are not used in my current
project.
Whether wise or not, my project file and all my forms and modules are saved
in one big area, say c:\myfolder.

I want to convert a value in a text propertie to a double.
I can use CDbl(grid1.text) for this, but the problem is that some text
properties are empty and when they are the code give errors.
Is there a way to convert text to double, but if the text is empty he just

Just a quickie.  If I want certain bespoke file types (ie accompanying
files) to show my app's icon or a derivative of it, do I do this in the VB
app or is this done through my installer?
I was going to use the Inno Setup one.  Do you if this can do this?

I'm being a good VBee and I'm using a Let sub to call the same form from 2
other forms to show different variable data depending on the ID that I send
to the Let.  My only problem is, how do I retrieve the status of the sending
form so that my generic 'Go Back' can take the user ...

Somebody known how to create a LF and CR in VB inside a textbox in run
time..? All i try with aSCII CODE 10 AND 13 DON'T WORK.
Thank you very mush..

Could someone please tell me how to create a generic XML parser using
VB
For example for this xml
<address>

This is a hybrid problem i.e. the answer lies either in javascript or
vb.net so forgive me if this is the wrong group.
I have this javascript:
function moveItems(fromItem, toItem)

I'm using crystal reports with my VB appliciation to print data from tables.
But when i select print it opens the CRviewer and show the preview and there
i have to say print again ...
I just want no preview, but direct printing.

At home, I have WinXP Pro with SP2. I wanted to use MSMQ for a project
I am doing from home.
To check for the installation of the service, I went to the MMC Snap-in
and saw under the Services & Applications node. There's no Messageing

I wrote a VB6 application  to reconfigure a database - lots of table
additions, data format changes, normalization, etc.
On my machine it runs great - it's slow but it does lots of work.
On my customer's machine it causes an Error signature with szModName : hungapp

I am looking for a "simple" and bulletproof method to get the path to
the Program Files folder, within Win98, Win2K and XP, for any Language
version of these.
Thanks, Thoms...

I started a new project, pressed control-t to get the calendar control out
of the components list.  Placed it on my form, added a command to print the
form (me.printform).  Printed it.  Everything looked fine.  Made an
executable - still fine.  All of this was done on a laptop ...

I need to write a VB6 application that will open a word document(a
template), change some specific text, write the changes, and close the
document. I'm able to read the whole document into a rich text box with
'rtb1.text = wd.range.text'.  I'd prefer to read it in a line at a time, ...