VB Forum / General 2 / April 2006

I am writing an application that I intend to sell.
I want to give customers a time-restricted demo version that can be
converted into the full version by entering an unlock key (purchased
from

I have a project (VB6 WinXP) with lots of forms and a user control. Not all,
but some of the forms have one or more usercontrols on them. Everything on
the user control is drawn on to it, it is not the container for other
controls and it's AutoDraw is set to true.

We recently purchased a new machine, installed VB^, and then SP6.
Everything works great except when we try to compile.  It almost finishes
and then we get an error: System Error &H80004005 (-2147467259).
Unspecified Error.

Hi, after a few months of work on a new release of my application
I've decided to make an .EXE. Then I realize I couldn't, the
project compiles just fine but when vb is "Writing .EXE" file,
displays this error message "System error &H80004005 (-2147467259).

See below for what I want to do... I'm downloading Visual Basic 2005
Express Edition...:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Adkins K8CPA" <>

I have a VB6 app which uses the ADO and MS Jet.  The DB has a column
titled Comments.  I want the user to be able to sort the column in
Ascending or Descending order by a menu selection.  The VB6 Help does
not give a good example how to the code.  Could someone rewrite the

I have a need to search through databases saved in sequential .txt
files.  I have a routine c/o my 'Bible' - VB6 from Ground Up (Gary
Cornell) which works really fast - if the list is in alpabetical order.
But if an entry is out of place it misses it.  The list I am searching

Can you recommend a project analizer to find dead code, unused variables,
etc in a large VB project?
Thanks

For a project i have to create a travel agency program, using a
database. im using access 2003 as my database. im having problems with
my code its when i execute this line "
objFlightOut.Update(objDataSetOut, "Outbounds") " that i get an error

I have seen few posts in the group about how to open a file in the
default browser. Every ones response is to use ShellExecute.
But I have a situation where in I have to move to a specific section
with in the HTML file I am launching using ShellExecute.

Apologies if this is regular question but I can't seem to find any info on
it.
I would like to be able to programatically generate variable names and
then reference their values

It is possible to capture KeyUp event on the MsHFlexGrid?

Hey everybody,
I'm working on changing some code that was initially written in java,
to vb, it's a piece of software that draws some kind of map, based on
start and end points, but while I was trying that , I got into a

I am still working an app for the local pool league and am having no end
of fun trying to position horizontal and vertical scrollbars on the main
form. In fact I have almost given up and have made them fixed on the form.
I want to have the scrollbars to the left and top of the ...

I'm developing a VB6 application which makes heavy use of matrices (2D
arrays) and uses CopyMemory to fill those arrays from other arrays (1D, 2D or
3D).  I have been REALLY CAREFUL to check that I do not copy to any places
outside my own data areas, and the .exe files that I ...