VB Forum / General 2 / June 2005

When using a listbox with a horizontal and vertical scrollbar on an XP
machine with the XP theme, dragging objects (for example, other windows) over
the bottom right corner of the listbox produces a strange effect.  The
listbox does not appear to repaint properly in this area ...

I am trying to write a program in VB6 to get at file properties (Owner,
Title, etc ). I can access them using scripting,
Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set objFolder = objShell.Namespace("C:\")

I noticed that instead of making a setup program I can use
regsvr32.exe tabctl32.ocx
to register the necessary OCX' in the registry
This also works on DLL's

Greetings All...
My question while fustrating is, I think, a simple one.
I am using the printer object "printer.print" to print information
about an order.  I dont want to spend a lot of time making the output

Its bound to be something stupid...
I downloaded a class module to use in my program.
I hit project>> add class module and it shows up in the project explorer
window.

I have am storing a .bmp photo in a picture box in a visual basic 6
application.  I need to print this picture as well as the information onto
an ID-sized piece of paper.  What I need to know is, how do I handle
printing .bmp photos in Visual Basic?

I have a webservice written in C# that I need to convert to VB dotnet
webservice.  Does anyone has any suggestion the best way to convert it?
This webservice will be used to call DB2 stored procedure and pass the
data back through the internet. I was told that I'll be using WSDL and

Guess I'm not experienced enough... Is there simple enough "search"
for recordsets that can be used once connecting an Access database to
VB. I just can't get it to show my data if I key into a text box or
inputbox. Am I barking up the wrong tree? TIA

Since installing Office 2003, whenever I attempt to instantiate an
Excel.Application I get an error message box captioned "eReference
Embeddine", saying "Unknown application version".  I have several apps that
will no longer work, and I am going nuts.  Has anyone had this ...

Has anyone heard of a text-box control that looks like a dot-matrix? So
when the user types in the control, instead of windows font characters
appearing, the dot-matrix fills? The control I am imagining would have
X circles high, and Y circles wide (all unfilled) and when the user

Using the "DIR" keyword, I can get a list of files to store in a
database.
But how to get the files in any subdirectories?
/Bertil

How can I refer to any string in my code.
I am trying to get the path of a setup file  which is RW97_(creationdate)
('creationdate' is the date the file was created and it changes everytime I
recreate the setup file)

I have some query in developing Visual Basic Application.We are
planning to use Visual Basic as a front end and DB2 as the Backend
Database.We are planning to run the DB2 in AIX (IBM Operating System).
Is it possible to develop an visual basic application in this kind of

How to add image between some text like
Lalala my name is Joppe and i like to use this smiley: (here is the pic of
the smiley) Because its so cool.
Thanks

Not sure if this is the right place to ask or not....
This works in my VBScript
conn.open "Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;Password=X;Persist Security
Info=True;User ID=uaccess;Initial Catalog=DBName;Data Source=Server"