VB Forum / General 2 / October 2006

Just a beginner question, how to read MP3 tag information in VB .net.
Any help is useful and I really don't know how to start.
Code example is preferred if available.
Thx in advance

I need to make a row from a spreadsheet unique. I do not have control
over the data in the spreadsheet. I just process it in my VB code as a
recordset.
Is there any way to get the row number from an excel spreadsheet? Or is

I am writing a program that is to be used in several different countries and
I need to be able to determine the OS language so that I can use the
apropriate routines relevent to OS, mainly Comms related to cope with DBCS.
Can anyone tell me how to get the OS language please

I am having a hard time trying to check if my MP3 player is connected
to the USB port of the computer.  I don't know where to check.  It
shows in "My Computer" as opposed to a hard drive.  It shows as
"SanDisk Sansa c150" in "My Computer" and doing a search shows it also

Just wondering how do I get the status bar in my program to tell the user
what is happening?
I'm creating a small media player and I want the status bar to tell me the
time of the file (how much has played / how much is left) and tell me the

hey everone!
say, is it possible to "join" a dll/ocx file directly into your visual
basic programm and compiling it combined into the exe?
for example you can intergrate a wave file as resource into your project.

In VB6 you can save a picture, image or drawing with SavePicture
Picture1.Image. This saves an image in .BMP-format which is very
large.
Is there a way to save this image in an .JPG format or other format

I am trying to write a VB6. program that has a box on the left of the
form that will display all photos the user chooses in the commondialog
show open command. It needs to be the images in a scrollable list. Any
help is appreciated

who can explain the following codes mean? What do the pump signs do in
here?
# if ComDebug = 0 then
#  ......

I have found an issue on one out of approximately 45 computers at work
which relates to the Font property on my form. I have started a brand
new project to do some tests, and here is my very simple code:
Dim name As String

Apparently, older versions of Visual Studio won't work  anymore with Windows
Vista:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/09/26/HNvisualstudioupdate_1.html
It doesn't mention VB6. Anybody knows if it will be compatible?

J French brought up in another thread a package called Molebox.
I was wondering what you all consider the Pros and Cons of using
such a package. It looks intriguing, but I don't want to buy on
impulse without considering all the angles.

I have several buttons in a window and every button should repeat an
action every 10 seconds when toggled. It is an ON/OFF button.
When I click Button1 ON then the button 1 should receive data from a
port every 10 seconds and keep doing that till i make that OFF state.

I have a value stored in Temp, that ranges between -60 and 64. I need to
scale this number to  between 0-255. Here's the code I'm using at the
moment:
Temp = "0"                         'make it doesn't contain anything

I have my text
text = "This is a test"
My text will vary in length.
But it needs to be of  length 30. Now if it is less than 30 it should