VB Forum / General 2 / March 2006

Any thoughts welcome on this one...
I have a picturebox inside of a form and I want to move the picturebox
around the form using a mouse drag.  What I get is that the first drag works
fine, but every drag after that first one causes the picturebox to jump to

I'm using the code I found at
http://www.codehound.com/groups/default.asp?t=1,14,3,1_e1CRFLdeBHA.1396@tkmsftng
p07_14
to determine the upper bound of an array.
Unfortunately the code provided only works for ByteArrays, not for

I would like to try my hand at writing a visual basic add-in.
Please point out any good articles or tutorials on this subject.
Is there any particular fairly advanced topic I would have to know to
be able to do this?

I have updated my internet explorer to version 7.0.5296.0 of this and now my
VB projects say "File not found c:\windows\system32\ieframe.dll\1".
The file exist in this directory and is registered.
Can someone tell me how can I fix it ?

Normally in a RTB, you can use common windows key commands such as
Ctrl-Z, Ctrl-C, etc. Is there any way to disregard these key commands
and use the Menu Editor to create my own code when a keyboard shortcut
is pressed?

I have a program I am starting to develop, and getting used to the Visual
Basic .NET 2005 program, and I have managed to get a mdi parent to load a
mdi child contained inside its form. What I cant work out if the child (lets
call it mdiChild) was loaded from within a menu option ...

I really appreciate the following code that someone posted for me a short while ago.  It works beautifully, but for some reason, the
ToolTipText doesn't show anymore.  Could it be related to this?
Thanks for all,
Guy

I would like to create a utility to automatically logout the current user
either at a designated time or after a certain amount of time.  Can anyone
provide me with guidance on how this can be achieved in VB6?
Many thanks

How do I get a Dir list box to start up in "My Documents". Keeping in mind
that I want it to do so on all machines where the user will have a different
name.
Thanks

I want to write a tool that can search the whole registry in a loop and
show me all the matching registry entries using VB 6.0. How can I do
this? Please help me out as its very urgent
Thank you

A VB6 program that I created has been installed on a wide range of computers
and networks without any problems.  Win 95, Win 98 and XP so far..
Occasionally, however, the function refuses to start on some systems, with
the only response being a critical error: 'Unexpected Error!' ...

I have some strings that contain "strange" characters (commas, double
quotes, new lines, etc.). How can l encode them to make them proper
fields of a CSV file?
Thanks in advance for your help.

I am currently making a reasonably simple time and alarm program, but I
want to add functionality to it being that it can turn a computer on
from it being off, so it can actually function as an alarm to wake
someone in the morning for example.  If this is possible, which I

When trying to send email in VB using Outlook, an annoying
dialog box appears to confirm the send. Presumably this is
for security reasons.
But it is not much of an automation if you have to click on

I have an array of type Byte() returned from a library call.  The
actual data consists of signed bytes, but because the call returns
Byte(), I am forced to interpret it as unsigned.  The only built in
cast, CSByte(), attempts to convert the data and overflows when a given