VB Forum / General 2 / June 2005

Hi. I have the following problem - I am using the ODBC driver to open
in Access a recordset based on a text file, using
Set objRecordset = objDB.OpenRecordset(m_strImportTxtFileName, ,
dbReadOnly)

I would like to know there is a way to make
list2 Scroll when you scroll list1
thanks for any help

I'm trying to model objects for the following problem:
A building site contains assemblies, each of which can contain other
assemblies and/or materials.
I have modelled this using a Site class, Assembly class, and Material class

Does a VB project need to be "cleaned" as does an Excel VBA project?
After I clear breakpoints in the VB code, the code stops at various lines in
the code and highlights them in yellow.
Cleaning my Excel VBA code with Rob Bovey's Code cleaner solved that

What is the difference between Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Basic .Net? I'm
looking to get started in Visual Basic and don't understand?

I am using the DrawText API function to put formatted text to a picture
box, used as a scrollable viewport.  I'm using subclassing to know when
the window/app loses focus.  If another window covers it, like from
another app, the drawn text is blanked but returns if the viewport is

A VB program gives me the error message "Run-time error 53 - File not
found". So, a file is missing that the program obviously needs. But the
error message doesn't tell me which file has not been found and since I
am not the developer of the program nor am I a programmer, how can I

Is it possible to disable a control with Text (Textbox, combobox etc)
but not have the text fade?
I have a bunch of text boxes for a database, want them disabled till i
hit the edit key, not a problem, cept they are kind of hard to read

I've written some code with quite a lot of file access (open, put, get,
close). I always tested my code on my local harddisk C: and it was quite
fast.
But yesterday I've tested my code with a mapped network drive Z: and the

I'm having an odd problem.  When I tried to play my MP3's, which
always play normally, suddenly there was no sound coming out of my
speakers. I assumed it was a problem with the speakers, and checked
the connections, etc., but found no problem. Windows Media Player

I have a VB6 SP6 MDAC 2.8 application talking to SQL Server.  Once I've
installed this application on my local machine I have been able to move the
.exe file to a file server and it runs just fine from there for all my local
users.  This is very handy for updating the application ...

My VB5 program creates a database file through the Jet Database Engine.
example:
   FN = DATAPATH & FILENAME
   Set dDBASE = CreateDatabase(FN, dbLangGeneral, dbVersion30)

Hey Folks
I have a set of Labels as a Ctrl Array - Lb(0), Lb(1), Lb(2)...
On the form, they form a single row adjacent to each other.
When I create them in order - Lb1, Lb2, Lb3 they look ok and there's a

I have a software project that uses a class with a property bag. The problem
is that I need to mantain a large collection of objects of this class but
the application crashes - error "Out of Memory" - after storing about 32700
objects in that collection. Can anyone help?

Once you've loaded a picture in the picture box, how do you "empty" it again?
I've tried:
pic1.picture = ""
but I get a type mismatch error.