VB Forum / General 2 / August 2006

Hallo NG!
WindowsXP/HE SP2, OfficeXP/Pro SP3, VB5E
Because of problems with printing my doc in landscape orientation
(see other thread) is there a trick that lets me change the

I'm using LookupAccountName to return the SID of an account passed to the
LookupAccountName function. What is returned is a byte array. I need this
converted into a string that looks like a normal SID you would find within
the registry. I tried looping through the array and ...

hi , i have a problem.
i have installed visual basic 6 pro , recently , (300MB kit) , and whenever
i pres F1 to get help on a statement  a message box appear and say: "the
msdn collection does not exist. Please reinstall MSDN"

I am working with a VB Application that uses some functions exported
from  a C Dll.
The functions in the dll are API functions that return a return code
specified in the API which is of type ULONG.

I have an old 400 MHz Pentium II Dell XPS computer that I seldom use.  Is there an OS to which I may
be able to upgrade?  I have not found new antivirus software that will run on it and that is my main
reason to upgrade.
I use it to test some of my VB6 programs.  That is about all ...

I am looking for some advise on user interface related to the date picker
control.
I have a user form with a date picker associated to a database. The date
picker has a meeting date, however, not every record has this date set (i.e.

What's the name of the control, that has a single short bar goes back and
forth as opposed to one way only?
Thanks,
Michael

I've created an intro screen in flash and wish to use it in my VB6 program.
I've added the control, removed the caption and control box so there's no
blue bar  at the top etc and made the shockwave flash control as big as the
form. However when I run it, everywhere that is ...

i wants to know how can i prepare setup of my vb project that can be
run on every windows OS such as 98, 2000, xp and nt server.
Thanks
Rajesh

Spradically I'm getting an Access Violation in msvbvm60, when closing
our application whose executable is made with VB6.
Questions:
# Did anyone see similar behaviour somewere else?

A client of mine has been unfortunate enough to loose control of his VB
6 sources. He currently has a very large set of VB 6 binaries and an
equally large and hopefully matching set of sources. The problem is he
is not sure the sources he has indeed correspond to the latest versions

I have a bulding error with the message above eventhough I have my starting
object defined properly.
Any suggestions to solve this or is this a known bug?

How to change the dropdown list height of several comboboxes in a frame and
that frame is on tabstrip?
Wim

I am taking classes in VB.NET, ADO.NET and XML.NET.
Somewhere I read that when you pass an object in the parameterlist of a
function or sub, it is always by reference and not by value.
Visual Basic (Visual Studio 2002) doesn't really care wether you

I'm trying to create a loop that loops until the escape key is pressed, this
is what I have but for some reason it doesn't work. Can someone please
explain what I'm doing wrong?
Public Sub IncreaseVolume()