VB Forum / General 2 / January 2006

I've been running VB5 applications on Windows 98 and they work fine.
I recently acquired a notebook with Windows xp, and installed VB5 on that
system. I tried to run one of my programs but I get error messages regarding
some ActiveX controls

I have a sql stored procedure in which I raise an error when
something is not right. Thus in my stored proc at some point
I have a statement like:
If (...)

I often end up with Stream type variables when I type quickly and don't put
in the extra character to get a String.  Decided finally to look up and see
just what they are, and had no success with my MSDN Library.  Just what are
Stream variables used for in VB6?

Why I press F5 to debug my program i get this error: Class
CLSID_CorSymWriter_SxS could not be created - Class not registered. I can run
the program using ctrl+F5 though. I reinstalled both VS .Net 2003 and the
.Net Framework 1.1, tried registering mscordbi.dll but i still ...

Hi, I have a list of objects I'm backing up to dvd.
During the DVD verify process, some of the objects fail verification.
I'd like to high light these in red and the rest in green.
Can this be done?

I have always lots of problems with getting the focus
to a control that is not next in the TabOrder.
In my opinion SetFocus does not work at all.
When I want to direct the focus to one specific textbox,

If this is offtopic, please advise of a better newsgroup, I thought
this may be the right one.
Our customers download and install our client/server based software on
their computer. Many of our customers use Norton Internet Security and

I'm trying to draw lines from the top of the picturebox (x = 0) to the
bottom of the picturebox (x = scaleheight) that are spaced apart by an equal
value.
For example:

Is there a walkthrough or how to that describes the general method
for creating an application (in Visual Basic Express)  that has no
initial UI, but runs in the background with an icon in the system
tray.  A context menu from the notify icon will of course bring up

not sure if i am in the correct newsgroup, sure someone will place me in the
right direction if not.
I ahve a little vb6 knowlege and i will probbly look at .net for this and
needed some help

Hi. I have a Combobox (Dropdown List modality). it contains one list (x
example the list of Italian cities) I would want that when I go to write in
combo me evidences the first value of the list with the character that I
have pressed.  for example if I press B it must exit BARI;  ...

im running shell to do a ipconfig now i want to get the results of it and
send it to a windows on my form can some one please help

 is VisualBasic able to generate
functioncall- and event-traces and write them to
stdout or to a file?
TIA,

This is a Visual Basic forum for everyone who needs help with Visual
Basic, VBScript, VB.NET, ASP and/or ASP.NET.
If you have build some scripts/routines/programs that you want to share
with the rest of the world, please do.

Question:
Is this the best way to get the length of a number?
Len(Trim(str(gMaxValue)))
or this?