VB Forum / General 2 / March 2006

Any suggestions appreciated on this one...
I'm using VB6 and at run-time I assign an image file as the background of my
main form using form1.picture=<filename>.   What's the best way to force the
size of the form to exactly match the size of the picture, assuming the

I am using vb6.0 from visual studio.  I have two questions
a) How do I het a label to display inside of a frame (or inside of a
picture box for that matter).  They display on the form itself, but
are always hidden under a frame.  I have tried changing properties

hi all;
Odd question, maybe.
When you open up Network Connections from the Control Panel, and you
right click onthe LAN and select properties, you get the Local Area

I have inherited an application that uses End in the Form_Unload() event
handler. I never noticed the use of End before today when I went in to
modify the code there. I removed End and find that the program does in
fact not end. This code has lots of forms and a couple of OCXs. ...

I have a list box containing integers after 5 vbTabs, e.g:
example    example    example    example    example    42
and I would like to sort it out so the sixth column is sorted into decending
order but each row shouldn't change.  How could I do this?

I want to open a program external to the vb project (or execuable, when
packaged) which is a .exe.
So, to recap I want to be able to open a program that is external to
the vb project.  And by open I mean for the external program to run in

Pardon me for a newbie question.
I access first column of an ADO recordset object by calling rs(0), the
second column - by rs(1), and so on... This works well as long as I now
number of columns in the recordset.

I am getting an error from VB: "Only user-defined types defined in
public object modules can be coerced to or from a variant... etc..."
The strange thing is, a public object module IS exactly where I have my
UDT defined. To compress it down to a simple example:

Could anyone please show me where to find code for a method to increment a
counter by one using leading zero's.
For example:
    Dim counter as long

Is it possible to SET the shortName in VB6 e.g Program files -->
Progra~1. Solution of this problem through any API is more helpfull
rather than using any 3rd party control. But plz also refer any 3rd
party control in unavailability of API solution.

Anyone know of a date routine that will return the earliest date a user
has had to be born to be 18, calculated from the current date.
Stupid Example but:
Label3.Caption = Date - 6570

I have a function with lots and lots of optional parameters (and a few
non-optional).
A new requirement made me store all the parameters in a SQL table when
the connection to another system wasn't up, and then later I would get

I use DAO in a VB6 project. I have a table with a few colums there, one
of them is dbMemo.
I have a RTF box for notes in the program, and for some reason, when I
assign text longer than 2000 characters to the field with dbMemo, I can

what is the correct sytax for shell. i want it to open the program
fully maximized and to have focus but for some reason i cant get it to
work. here is what i have so far. it works but it is minimized but
still has focus.

text1 = 12,4
text2 = 3,8
text3= text1 + text2   results in 12,43,8
text3= val(text1) + val(text2) results in 16 instead of 16,2