VB Forum / General 2 / June 2005

Hi - I have a bunch of VB 6 books - plannning to start learning VB. The
problem is I can't find VB 6 around anymore, only vb.net. Can I use the
VB 6 books with VB.net, or are there too many differences between the
2? Remember, I'm a newbie.

My question is:
How to recognize version of windows xp (home ? or proffessional ?) using
Visual Basic 6 ??
Randy

Does anybody know how I can loop through all the properties in a class I
have created? Can I use Me to refer to the properties? I'm using VB6.
Many thanks.

VB6 Pro front end
Access 2000 back end
I loaded up an array MoreThanOneCurrentStatusIDArray() with the ItemData
values of a listbox that a user may drag the items in the listbox to

We're having a problem with 2 of our VB6 applications, but only come to
light for certain user accounts.  The standard user account has a lot
of access rights locked down i.e. cant get to explorer etc.
Heres whats happening...

I've got a VB6 application which fires off events at certain times of
the day, basicly manipulating and moving files around the network. The
application requires no user input or GUI and as such should probably
be implemented as a service, however it isn't. This being the case it

I have 16 frames with four option buttons each. The frames are named
Frame1 to 16. Each frame has Option1(0) to 3. How do I reference each
option? I tried Frame1.Option1(0) = True
but this doesn't work. I get a 'Method or data member not found'

I would like to create a program that automatically runs every hour.  I
thought the Windows scheduler would handle this, but the minimum time frame
is one day.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.

I want to write a sub that has two Colour args. The first is required, the
second is optional.
Within the sub I want to test if the second arg has been passed, and if not
the make it equal to the first.

Am I missing something here?
I have a shape with a border of 3 which I want to keep the visible at
all times with a form 'border' of 100.
shape1.top = 100

I was given the code below to add 2 times of hours and minutes by Rick
(thanks) and it works:
Time1 = 102.54
Time2 = 1000.07

I know how to add a control at run time to a Form follows this syntax:
object.Add (ProgID, name, container)
But what do I use for the Container when I'm trying to add a control at
run time to a User Control?

I need to get about 100,000 files into a folder as fast as possible.
they are about 30kb each. Am using scripting filesystem object in
vbscript/asp, but the more files i try to write, the slower it is per
file. is there a faster way to do it?

I have a bit of a problem with a sort procedure I need to do. I have a
list of items in a listbox, eg:-
2.3%<A other text here>
-4%<B other text here>

I would like to set column widths in my datagrid at run time. I tried
DataGrid1.Columns(i).Width  = xxx but it had no effect.
I also looked at the design time properties page but was only able to set
properties for columns 0 and 1.