VB Forum / General 2 / February 2006

I have searched Google but I cant find
how to add Regular Expressions in VB6 (RegExp objects)
Can someone tell me how to add this component.
Thanks

if I try the following command in a dos window
Rename c:\new\joe.txt jack.txt
it renames the file , but when i try to use the shell command in VB6
like so:

Would someone be able to write me the code to do the following? I am a
complete novice so would appreciate simplicity and explaination where
appropriate.
I have to produce a visual basic program to manipulate text using a

I am so new at this, I am sure I will get alot of help from the PRO's.
What I am looking to do is to launch an executable program in VB that
will also point to the "start in" directory.
On the Shortcut,  the Target is the command line and the Start in is

I have this code:
Private Sub Form_Load()
   Printer.PrintQuality = vbPRPQDraft
   Printer.Orientation = vbPRORLandscape

I am writing a slide show program.
I will create an array and the array elements will be populated with the
file name of each image file (jpg, bmp, etc) in the directory.
For simplicity the image files can be assumed to be in the same directory as

i want to make (in VB 6) a copy of a form
this new form has to have the exact layout with all of the controls of the
other form (text buttons, etc..) with the same name.
how do i have to do this?

I am VB6 programmer, working on VB.net now, came across this. To my surprise
this didnt work as it used to work in VB6.
I am making a form with 2 buttons - BONE and BTWO, given its labels as B&ONE
and B&TWO so that I could access (have focus) on that button via keyboard by

I have a simple visual basic 6 program that calls a function in a class
written in C# assembly. Running executeable directly gives me no
problem, debugging VB6 program is also working fine. However, when I
try to debug C# assembly with VB6 program, VB6 program simply crashes

Hi, everyone!
I am working on a medium-size data acquisition project.
I need to allocate (10megabytes+) space for a variable-length string in
VB6 to store incoming data. Fixed-length string won't work as its 64kb

Let's say you have a CSV file and you load it into a variant array using the
split function on VBCrLF.  Then you load a variable with the line count and
loop through the array for 0 to line count.  This works well unless you have
blank lines at the end of the CSV file.  Now if you ...

I am writing a program in VB6 which adds footnotes to a Word document.
My problem arises when there is no footnote text to add to the Word
document. There is an array, Foot, which was previously loaded with data.
It contains two fields :-

Is there a way VB6 can test for the existance of a specific data file?
Thanks,
Nick

Is there a way to instruct Windows file-handling - 'Opens with:'  - from
within VB6?  I want to ensure that files with the .rtf (rich text) extension
always go to Word Pad, no matter which future computer uses my program.
TIA

In VB6 I have a MSFlexGrid displaying records from a database using both vertical and horizontal
scroll bars to show all details.  Each record row is quite wide, about 26000 twips or almost three
times the width of the grid on the screen.
If I manually scroll to the right to see ...