VB Forum / General 2 / December 2005

I have a project with a main form and a second form with a grid on it.
Neither form is an MDI, thus neither form is a child - they are two
independent forms. The CALCULATE button on the main form opens the
second form and fills the grid with data. What I want to be able to do

Hi has anybody experienced XP SP2 preventing raiseevent to raise an event
within a timer control. This effect is only experience on cpu intensive
machines and thus to reproduce this I use an utility to keep my computer very
cpu intensive. One last fact is that in the timer I am ...

My visual basic application does not close cleanly. Upon closing, the
process becomes a zombie. It won't end unless I kill it manually. Is
there any way to find out where is the problem? Any tools perhaps? The
problem doesn't exist when I close the application inside visual

   I have an application that requires me to load an image into
a picture or image or picclip control.Picture will be JPG format
and of size 800 X 600 pixels. It will be displayed as say, 200 X 100
pixels. Question: Is it possible to save the image as a 200 X 100 image,

Does anyone know how to extract an icon from Shell32.dll, say the the
31st one?
Marshall

I want to use Drag And Drop for List.Text in a ListBox.  When I set the
DragMode for the ListBox to 1 *automatic) I can't select a List.Text *an
item in the ListBox) and the complete Listox is moved!
I want to drag only the selected item. Is this possible?

I have a text box that accepts a password to connect to a network. Is it
possible for this to respond to the ENTER key being pressed after the
password is typed? Help appreciated.

I've written a small VB application to convert a CSV file into an Excel
file but some fields in the resulting Excel file seem to be truncated
at 256 characters while others aren't.
This also happens if I import the file into Excel manually.

I am writing some code that needs to get an update file from a server (win
2000 server) if the user has connected their network lead and logged in.
When my form opens I want to get the file from the server and overwrite any
older version on my hard drive and then open it in VBA or ...

I am using         Open varFilename For Input As #1     to open a file.
Before I open the file I want to test if #1 is open.
If it is then I want to close it before attempting to open it.
How do I test if #1 is open ?

I'm trying to implement a simple drag feature in a usercontrol so that the
user can drag the control around on the form at runtime and the position is
saved/reloaded at app start/stop. The code I'm using (from allapi.net) looks
like:

Is there a way to implement callback functions in VB?  I have a
communication routine (using the Commctrl) which can send and receive
message 1- when a button is clicked, or 2- in a timer interrupt routine.
I have a messaging structure set up, and put the messages to be sent into ...

Is there an open/select directory dialog with a browser like openfile?

i have builded a project with some variabeles ,optionbuttons ,textboxes
and 1 commandbutton.
if you click on the commandbutton than i have that on the other form a
textbox calculates the numbers you get when it lucks. (there are three

I am using Visual Basic 6 .
I am using the two lines below to open a text file (foo.txt) and read lines
from it .
After I have read several lines from the file, is there some way that I can