VB Forum / General 2 / May 2005

I must display some values on a graphic and they are ordered by month.
My question is how i can count the total of months between 2 dates?
For example:
Between 2/2003 and 3/2003 lies 2 months (2 and 3 count in)

I want the user to be able to have full functionality of a comboBox but with
the ability to change the text. Does any of the attributes allow this?

I accidently deleted the fields object from a hidden message. Oops!
oMessages.fields.delete
Anyway the hidden message still seems to be there. It was index 62
before but now when I hit 62 while looping through the hidden messages

I'm trying to use the Crystal Automation Server in Visual Basic 6 to
export a report to PDF, but when I try to set the Format Type,
PortableDoc isn't an option. If I look at my Technical documentation on
the Automation Server, it doesn't have PortableDoc as one of the

Have a server with Oracle8i loaded and sqlloader also loaded on Server.

load data in Oracle Database.  How to do it ?
cap

What's Micro$haft done to the Windows Explorer search engine in WinXP? I've
got zillions of little VB programs that I've written over the years and
sometimes I search those files (form files and bas files) looking for a
specific line of code. But the XP search engine refuses to ...

VB6.  I have a class.  The class receives a bunch of individual items from
an asp page, then updates the database.  My question is what is the best way
you have found to update the database, one record at a time -or- send every
that needs to get written to the database to the class, ...

Is it possible to link an own created icon to an own created file extension?
You could do it manuelly in the windows explorer => tools => folder options
=> file extensions => ...
But i want to do it when my vb project loads...

 Way back in 1998, Microsoft had many free VB5 extensions located in
the Owners Area of their site, but these are no longer located there.
 I would like to know if anyone still has these free VB5 extensions,
specifically,

Hello again.
A summary of my earlier question follows:
I have several users that run my program but for some the following message
appears

I need to be able to send windows messages between processes. The
examples that I have found that use lParam as a long integer work well,
but I need to send a string as the lParam and then capture it in the
other process with a hook.

How can I pass special characters into a function, such as :
   I want to replace " in mystring
   mystring = replace(mystring,"\"","") <--not working
same as in  C#

   I want to use an Access database in a Visual Basic 6 program.
Question:
-Should I use Access 97 or Access 2003?
Thank's

I'm running VB6 SP6 on Win2K server SP4. Just this weekend, I started getting
crashed in the VB IDE while debugging. Sometimes it's not even while
executing a step, it can just be as I move the mouse around in the code
window. I've run disk and memory diagnostics, machine seems ...

Is there a standard way of implementing custom equivalance methods for
VB objects.
So, say I want to compare two objects based on some property of the
object.