VB Forum / General 2 / September 2006

I know that I can download a copy of Visual Basic 2005 Express for free.  My
question is this.....
I have Visual Basic 6.0 Professional and was wondering if anyone that has
used the packages can tell me if it would be better to go with Visual Basic

Bit of a newbie question..
Is there a VB6 way of telling what is already running?  E.g. if a VB6
program has been minimized and selected again, the minimized one maximizes,
instead of having the same thing running twice simultaneously.

Hallo NG!
WindowsXP/HE SP2, VB5EE/SP3, PDF995/7.9s
I want to use the following code example to print text into Form1.
The code is NOT from me but i also don't know the author.

Consider the procedure
Private Sub Adder(ByVal Num1 As Integer, etc. )
End Sub
which called by        Call Adder( TxtNum1,.) where TxtNum1 is a text box.

Hi, perhaps someone here can help me. I'm at uni and we're working with
Visual Basic 2005. I have some books, but they don't go into the forms
design aspects and describing the various controls at all. What books
can I get that will cover that?

I can't seem to figure out (Windows XP with VB 5) how to add a different
background color for a form rather than the dozen or so colors that it shows
as 'standard' form background colors?  I would like to use a nice 'silvery'
background shade that I have but can't seem to ...

Hello *,
I am writing a small addon for Word in Visual Basic (VBA to be exact),
it has to pass a string to a C++ DLL. It's very easy to work with ASCII
strings by using ByVal everywhere, but i have to use Unicode strings

I am writing an application that, as part of its normal operation,
will dispose of files at the user's request. They can choose to
dispose by deleting the files or moving them to a selected folder.
For deletion, I allow the user to choose whether to use the recycle

In my VB6 app,I get occasional problems where two date variables show the
same date and time, show the same Cdbl() values and yet go through Greater
Than logic in the program. Whilst this is probably due to floating point
issues it is a big problem in my app. For example, this is ...

I'm looking for some recommendations for Visual Basic 2005 books.
Specifically, I'm NOT looking for books that detail the elements of
the language, nor explain OOP, but rather present real-world scenarios
for application development, and show how classes/components can be

I've recently re-installed VB5 to my computer and I'm now getting this error
when trying to construct a database...
"Run-time error '3445' Incorrect version of DLL File MSJet35.dll was found"
I've used this VB5 for the last ten years without any errors - anyone know

I am trying to import some functions from a COM dll.
When i am trying to run the VB Application ,i am getting the following
error:
"Function or interface marked as restricted,or the function uses an

Hey, for some reason, my picturebox (scalemode pixels) is maxing out at
width 16383. Is there any way to make it wider than that? if so, how?

I am writing an app in VB6 Enterprise Edition on a machine running XP
Pro, and am having a weird problem with my RichTextBox control.  It's
behaving as if I'd put in KeyPress events when I haven't yet!  Ctrl-L
left-aligns, Ctrl-E center-aligns, and Ctrl-R right-aligns....without

My VB program will display data captured from serial ports continuously
in
Strings, nonstop for long time, say few years.
What will be the limit of my textbox? What will happen if the textbox