VB Forum / General 2 / June 2005

Thankyou for your responses on my forcing a window to the front problem,  
the two solutions are both in use now and have helped me greatly :)
Onto another problem: Im looking at the Messenger API atm and have decided  
to try and work out how to get code to run when events occur ...

I would like to show the square root sign on a button caption as text but
the only one I can find is unicode 221A
I have tried .caption=Chrw(&H221A) but get a v character instead
any ideas please

I'm sure somebody can help, as this is a pretty simple problem (I
hope!).
I'm trying to create an .exe that will open an OK/cancel dialog box,
where clicking OK will copy c:\folder to e:\folder (with all

Can anyone tell the code to add 2 values which are hours and minutes (not
days), for example I want to add 102.54 to 1000.07 to get 1103.01?

I need a code to input a txt form internet to a listbox. If i do it on my
method it all comes on one line in the listbox. The lsit goes as follows
Between a rock
Black knight fortress

I need some code to drag items in a list box either up or down along with
not just the text but with the  itemdata too.
Can anyone hook me up?
TIA John

One frustration I have with the VB6 editor component of Visual Studio
is that I get lines of code reformatted to a certain coding style without
any warning.  It's usually just irritating things like the initial
letter capitalization style of function names, and properties, for ...

Now, how can i make my program have hot keys?  like press "p" to pause or
something.

I have a picture box on a form.
I wish to display picture no 1 for 5 seconds in the picture box, then
picture 2 for 5 seconds in the picture box then picture 3 for 5 seconds.
I cannot get my code to work properly. It does not display picture 1 or

I have a Document that is used by a VB3 application that seems to be in
Binary format. How do I extract the text from it. I have been unsuccesful in
doing this with Word 2002, recovery & decoding

How can i make a program take up the full screen like a game does.

All,
I have an ActiveX DLL class that raises a number of public events.  The
events do fire.  The code for the RaiseEvent works, but the application
that references the DLL doesn't catch the events.  If I import the class

I just bought VB.net 2003. I was running a WinME machine which I've
learned needs XPpro to run VB.net. So, if no other solutions, my best
bet is to get a new machine with XPpro on it? Also, I'll be doing some
developing of database applications. Do I need to get MS-Office2003? I

Hi everyone! I can create Windows Service in VB .Net 2003 professional.
The problem is that when I try to show up a form in Service Start up
event, the form always show up and become stop responsible! Any idea?
Regards, Stanley

I am totally floored to find out that ms didn't upgrade the web browser
control. Isn't that the whole selling point of .Net? that it's more
geared to Internet programming?
Anyway has anyone done any benchmarks?