VB Forum / General 2 / July 2006

I would like to modify some of the *buttons* on my forms with something better than that provided by
MS.   I found a few on the net, but know nothing about them.
Crystal Buttons   crystalbutton.com    $29.95         SWGSoft Inc
Image Forge        cursorarts.com    $28.95

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New to VB.
I need to read in a text file (C:\text.txt)
Find Line "host.name="
and replace with "host.name=172.29.10.40"

Where can I go to get help with VB.NET?  Is there a separate newsgroup
for VB.NET?
I want a VB.Net proggy to play a brief sound file.  Nothing on the
screen, just play and quit.

I have a chunk of code for a password checker. It worked fine untill I
thought of putting there a Messagebox.
For example. The Password file has 2 usernames and 2 passwords. they
are being checked at once. If Passwd or Usrname are not good then

There are a lot of prints that I first make in a txt-file.
When the file is complete I must copy that file to a printer.
I do this by executing RetVal = Shell("Print.bat" + " " + PrintFileName + "
LPT1", 0)

I am struggling with a piece of code which leads to the error described
in the title of thiis message.  The code stops at "Public Function
TestRockDescriptionForUniqueness() As Boolean" in the second function
listed.   Anybody see a mistake(s)?

I need to check if a collection contains a specific value. Is there a way to
do this without looping?
Thanks!
Ramon.

In a VB6 messaging application, I am adding attached documents.
How do I let a user open a selected doc in its correct parent app?
1) Use ShellExecute API?
2) find the app from HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, then call Shell()?

I am having trouble working out how to make a two dimensional array work
correctly. I have tried the code below, but keep getting a Type Mismatch. If
I simply assign simple variables to the Drive and Caption items, the code
works fine and I get the results I expect. Can someone ...

In Matlab, I have this function:
y = 20 * (x.^2).* ((1-x).^4) .* cos (12 * pi * x);
When I try to see the result of y(0.5) on the m-file, the system
generates a synatx error:

I dunno what might be the cause of this, I have done a c++ dll that runs
under VB application, the dll is included with an automation library, the
program runs well but when I try to debug the program with the VB debugger is
just crashes when calling the dll, I dunno why, I even ...

I have two forms, one "main" form that is open initially, and a smaller
form called GPIB_Add that loads once by default when the main form
first loads (i.e. at startup) and then can also be called at any other
point by clicking on a menu item from the main form.  When I call it at

I can't seem to change the app.title property at runtime? When my app
connects to SQL, it does not display my app's new title under SQL's
current activity. It only displays the predefined title which i set in
my project properties at design time. I need to concatenate the active

A application developer gave me an exe and said that he used visual
prolog to develop it.But it looks more like vb to me.I would like to
have some clarifications here
After compiling a vb project into an exe Is it possible to find out