VB Forum / General 2 / April 2006

I'm doing a project,in which data is sent to the parallel port(printer
port) of the PC.Now,i want to access the data from VB.How can I do
that??

I have some folder path info which I want VB6 to retain from one use to the next
Is it best to use ini or thr registry?
In my particular circumstance the software is likely to be run on network stations but with many users. The entry is to be set for the workstation not the user
If ...

I'm interested in both Java and .NET. Do you think its a good idea to
seek exposure to both these technologies in the IT industry? Wouldn't
it defeat my being able to gain expertise in a specific technology? How
important is it to be generic viz-a-viz specific?

I have the following code to get the number of seconds into a day given
a date/time value:
TValS = DateDiff("s", DateValue(StillDate), StillDate)
StillDate is #04/05/2006 21:03:52#, and DateValue is correct at

I have an excel (professional edition 2003) file with Macros. The
macros are written in VB 6.
I want to include a .Net Remoting Services Project. The following
namespaces are referenced by the .Net project

Does anyone know of a free or cheap alternative to the vb6 listbox control
that will allow sorting at runtime?

Is there a way to set post parameters and launch the users default web
browser?  I have tried doing the following, which accomplishes setting
the post parameters:
Dim xmlhttp As Object

I need help inserting a picture programmatically in a RTB. I have tried
using the OleObjects collection of the RTB, but when I add an image
file, it shows up as a small icon with the filename underneath. I also
tried setting the DisplayType of the OLE embedded object to 0. The

Im using VB6 and am trying to figure out the best way to go about
creating a means of watching a process to ensure that if something isnt
executed in a time limit that it jumps to another function. Much like a
real time scheduler.

I have an image viewer I've written in which I've been using Scalemode =
vbTwips for just about everything (forms, pictureboxes, etc).   Recently
I've implemented a rotate-picture function where I found out that in order
to make the speed of calculation and drawing anywhere near ...

I have a problem with one of my little projects. I have created a small
application that open/closes the CD. I used the following code below:
Private Declare Function mciSendString Lib "winmm.dll" Alias
"mciSendStringA" (ByVal lpstrCommand As String, ByVal lpstrReturnString

I get what I think is an unexpected result, Can someone explain Why?
This is what I did
New project with Form1 and Form2
Form1 has 2 CommandButtons and this code:

If I divided an integer by an integer how would I round the answer to
the next whole number as using the Round() function doesn't seem to
work.  It returns 22 when the division equals 22.5 ?
Cheers

I want to learn Visual Basic Script and I need some e-books and
resources. Is there any website/e-book that I can learn easily VBS from?

My VB6 program is getting rather large - the EXE is now over 4MB. I am
seeing problems between Compiling and Emulating/Debugging
I went to make an EXE and got an error message "Out of Dynamic Memory" (or
something like that). I went into some of my recently added modules and