VB Forum / General 2 / June 2005

Hi Newsgroup,
what I found out so far is that there are two solutions to fulfill the
task of starting the default browser from within a vb6-application.
1. by Randy Birch using CreateProcess

Due to a misplaced paranthesis, in the code I had a line which
evaluated to "if(ucase(true) or false)".
Try this: set RegionalSettings in English/US, and in debug try
?ucase(true) or false

I have a problem with a VB6 program that command a mailmerge with word
object.
The database is a MSDE Database.
In the two cases, the server is the same

Where are the VB news groups. there only seems to be about 2 which are
active to any great extent (that I can find). Is this a sign that it is dead
or that its so good people dont get many problems and can pick it up easily.
I use Access alot to, there are no end of newsgroups for ...

How can I remove last three letteres form all the objects this code puts in
a listbox.
I got File1 and List1 items.
Private Sub GetUsers()

I have a set of controls on a form that I want to make visible or
invisible when the user pushes a command button.  The group of
controls includes labels, combo boxes, command buttons,  and text
boxes.  

I have a VB6 app that checks in the QueryUnload event if the user has
finished doing certain things in the app before we let them close the form.
If it's OK for them to close the form (which is the whole application) then
the form closes OK whether or not it's displayed or minimized ...

We have created a visual basic 6 msi.  However, when a user tries to
access any other application on the computer it invokes this msi - even
if they have had it loaded before??
Any Ideas please??

Why the following statement give an error "Object required"
Winsock1.RemotePort = Val(textbox3.Text)
Thanks!

I changed the date on my compuer to perform a test and now I am unable
to set the right date.  Any ideas??
OS: xp home edition
Thanks

I googled for this tonight and all the replies that I found said that
there is no direct way to do this.
Is there a way to do this?  It seems like there would be a way to do
this by VB 6.

I've written a UC to act as a container with a Property called Page that
allows contained controls to be moved according to the Page number. It uses
the contained controls Tag property to store the Page number, so when the
Page number changes, if the Tag property has the same ...

I have figured out the "Form Effect" question above. However, I'm using VB
5.0 and want to refer to an event on a different form.
I have an MDI form with help on it.  When the user selects help, I want to
see what form is active "Me.ActiveForm"...then I want to select the "Help"

I am trying to make a vb app for sending and receiving smses without
the use of third party controls, but with the help of AT commands. I
browsed the net, I found some examples, but no tutorials. Are there
any?

Is is possible to create a database in VB that can seemingly learn?
Basically I'm wondering if I build a database so when a user does a
query (requests a suggestion), the database to compiles historical data
and display those results for the user?