VB Forum / General 2 / February 2006

Is it completely legal to sell, or give away (for free) programs that
are created in Visual Basic 6.0.  I know this may sound like a stupid
question, but I would like reasurance of this, before I buy VB 6.0.
PS

I have recently been given the task of modifying a piece of code that
was originally written in C. I have rewritten the code in Visual Basic,
and have had pretty good success, but there is one Function from the
DLL that I am calling that I can't seem to get to work. It is a

Hi , what are the alternatives for connecting to sql server 2000 using
vb 6 locally or remotely ? is it same as connecting to Access using ADO
or DAO ? pls advise. Thanks
Regards

In my VB6 application I sometimes get this error:
Fatal error in gc
Too many roots set
This error happens randomly, and rarely.

   I've written some Visual Basic macros to handle some specific worksheet
manupulations, but my method is rather difficult to maintain and is not very
portable.  I wonder if there is a better way.
   Here is the general idea of what I have to do:

I'm writing an application that would process data brought from a
remote Oracle database. I get the following message:
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Oracle client and networking component were not found. These components

I've been tearing my hair out for the last 2 weeks trying to get a
program to install.
It's a fairly simple bit of code linking a mainframe system to the
in-house telephone system so that the mainframe can originate calls and

I need to check the dates of two files to make a copy of the one that has
been most recently overwritten. How is this done in VB6? Help appreciated.

Take advantage of a great deal

Hi all you dinosaurs ;-)))
I recently accepted a full time position doing data mucking and other
fun stuff.
One of the first things I am doing is to update an application written

I am trying to use the vbscript "split" function on a multi-select
field.  I am trying
to do a mass update of several records at a time.
I am getting an error and I'm not sure what to do.  Here is the code if

I'm using VB5 on winXP. I recently upgraded from win98.
VB5 appears to work ok, perhaps even better now.
But when I launch the Application Setup Wizard, as it is trying to initialize the VB 5 Setup Wizard I get: "Invalid property value.
An unexpected error has occured", and when I ...

Private Sub Rhumb(ByVal Lat1 As Double, ByVal Lon1 As Double, _
   ByVal Lat2 As Double, ByVal Lon2 As Double, RhumbBearing As Single,
_
   RhumbDistance As Single)

Hiya guys and gals
All I'm sure this must be so simple !
Have a form with two frames, the data in the top frame changes when the
selected line in the botton frame changes, based upon what the data is,

My little VB book is back. It covers pre-.NET VB (4/5/6). 210 pages,
paperback.
Now printed professionally and cheaper to boot at £9.99. I had to zap the
original cover as Tim O'Reilly threatened to set his lawyers on me :(