VB Forum / General 2 / November 2005

How do I make the inputted password on the Login Form look like this *****
for security??
Thanks

Can anyone tell me who makes software such that I can incorporate into
my VB .exe features that allow me to set a 2-week time trial on my
software .exe such that he needs to enter a registration code in order
to operate the software after two weeks?

I am developing a file search utility in VB6 using WinAPI's FindFirstFile
and FindNextFile and I am wondering about the affects of Windows File
Indexing and how it works.
Do I have to write the code to take advantage of Windows File Indexing (if

Does anyone know how to read out the default path?
I 'open' a *.DOT and there is working properly:
'=
   with application.activedocument

I want to have 3 option buttons that have a label that changes depending on
what semester it is.
So, for example, I want the first one to say Fall 2005, the second one to
say Spring 2006 and the third one to say Summer 2006.  I've tried assigning

Im using the following code to upload image files and a text file
The text file itself contains the image file name. The code opens the text
file reads it .and if it finds the image file name it PUTs it to a remote
website folder. It then PUTs the text file and deletes it from the ...

I'm pretty new at VB, and I'm trying to figure out if it's
feasible/possible to do the following:
(assume strXXX is dim'd As String)
strLocation = ComboBox1.SelectedIndex

There are many functions available that implement credit card identification
and number validation -- meaning you can decide, based on the number, if a
card is a MasterCard or Visa and if the number passes the Luhn Formula or
MOD 10 algorithm for the checksum.  What I'm looking ...

I have a applciation which currently contains a webbrowser contol. The
performance of the webbrowser control is unacceptable and therefore wish to
replace it with a stand alone application (developed in C++ (Not MFC)).
I was intending to have a dll sitting between the vb app and the ...

I need to take a screenshot of the current window. I am using this code
  'To get the Active Window
   Call keybd_event(vbKeyMenu, 0, 0, 0) ' Press the Alt key
   Call keybd_event(vbKeySnapshot, 0, 0, 0)

Hi, I have a pointer to a string which is in form of a long returned by
StrPtr()  (not a variable to which the string has been assigned), and I
need to assign another string to the original string being pointed to.
Does anybody know how I can do this. Please ...

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but here goes.
I have a form with several text boxes and I am using a function in each
text box's GotFocus() event to trigger an action.  The code works
perfectly as long as I am moving down through the text boxes, but if I

Hello all;
I've been coding in VB 6.0 for years.  However I just ran across a
issue with Drag/Drop.
Can anyone show me, I won't be insulted if you go step by, how to drag

i am a n00b and i'm trying to write some shitty code in MS Excel 97's
Visual basic. But in ran into an issue - i really need to sort the
content of a listbox. And i can't find anything like "listbox to be
sorted" in the listbox's properties windows. so it would be really

Has anyone used DigitalPersona UareU to login users to your apps?  Not
as a password, but to identify users by their fingerprint?  I've been
trying to do this and cannot get it to work.  DigitalPersona support
will really not commit to me as to whether it is designed to do this or