VB Forum / General 2 / August 2005

Does anyone have any VB.Net code to get the devices listed / enumerated
in the Device Manager listing.
I'm trying to figure out if a device (it's actually a digital camera)
is connected to the computer.  When it's plugged in (Firewire), it

I want to write some code which
a) looks at a list of dates then determines the date of the next day
b) uses the result of a) to refresh some queries
c) performs calculations on the result of b) and returns data to a

Is there an advantage other than ease of reading (i.e. speed
increase?) to use with rather than just using the same object name
over and over again? For example:
Original code:

I am having a problem where my app still shows in the process list
after I close it, and I'm unable to find out why. I have done all I
can to stop any activity that might make it hang including shutting
off all timers before closing, etc.

I am getting the MAC address on my Windows 2000 computer
using the code shown below.
However when I run the same code on my XP machine the
result is "0" even though the machine has only one ethernet card

I have an application that collects user input and formats it, along
with some standard text, into a report using the Printer.Print method.
Printer.EndDoc prints the report to my default printer.
How can I send the document to an email client rather than my printer?

I have serious problem when I run the dll project with exe project. When I
group the dll project and exe project together to run, i got the run time
error "System Error &H80004015 (-2147467243)". However, I even cannot run
the dll or ocx project alone, but exe project is OK. How ...

I am trying to access my access database by using visual basic 6.0. I
want to use recordset method to get data from query.
I can get connection established, but I get error in further debugging
with message "arguments are of the wrong type, are

Coiuld someone please give me some pointers which is better to use in
visual basic projects.
As I understand it, when you make OCX file, you make a component
(button, grid etc) that you can use on your forms; and with DLL you

First of all, please ignore or delete if this is the wrong newsgroup.
I'm having an issue plotting points.  I'm sampling an analog signal at
50kHz, and when plotting within 0.5 ms, I only get like 10 points.
Since my bit accuracy is 12 bits, I'm getting some quantatization

Can the VB6 Split function cause an Overflow error (#6) ?

About once a year I decide to modify a program form in which I add a frame.  Is there an easy way to
move option buttons, text boxes, labels, command buttons, etc. onto the frame?
It is annoying to have to delete those objects and their code only to have to add them to the frame

Thanks for your time,
I used your code, however, It still has bug, so far, I can debug all
the way down to --strPN = rs("PersonnnelNumber").Value & ""
Then it raise error again, saying "run time error 3265" Item cannot be

Thanks for your time,
I used your code, however, It still has bug, so far, I can debug all
the way down to --strPN = rs("PersonnnelNumber").Value & ""
Then it raise error again, saying "run time error 3265" Item cannot be

Hi. I have to use Visual Basic 6 to export data to Adobe PDF file
format. I retrieved the data from MS SQL Server to DataGrid successful
already, but I cannot export the data to Adobe PDF file format. Here is
my sample code (Visual Basic 6). I really appreciate for your help.