VB Forum / General 2 / October 2006

Recently someone with Win98 had a problem when installing and trying to run
my VB6 program. Some files that needed to be on the machine were not, or
were too old, or a variation of such. My XP customers have no problem
installing my app.

I am looking for a book or software that helps teach VB.  Can anyone
recommend a good package?  I saw this one at http://www.vbamacro.com
called VISUAL BASIC DEVELOPER DO IT YOURSELF TOOLBOX, 2006 and
VISUAL STUDIO.NET TUTORIALS EXTREME 2006 (VB.NET).  Has anyone tried

I can change the background colour of my form, however when I do the
controls need to update their backgrounds to the same as the form otherwise
they stand out. I wondered if there was a way to do it, looking for
something like:

I have a VB6 application that has (3) forms started by Sub Main and
transferred from one to another.
Public Sub Main()
  Dim fForm1 As Form1

Can SHFileOperationAPI rename a file, it seems to always create a copy witha
different name?
MoveFile will rename.

When i use shellexecute api call to open a url in internet explorer, it
comandeers an already open explorer window.
How can i get it to open a new window and set this ones url. I can do it
with registry calls changing the home page before the window opens and then

i have an vb.net (migrated from vb to vb.net) application which refers
vb6.0 control, while closing the application I got the error "unhandled
exception at 0x660688 (msvbvm60.dll) in DBCenter.exe: 0xc0000005"

I want to show a picture quickly in an image box. I simply used
Image1.Visible = True after loading a picture. Sometimes, right before the
picture appears, a quick dark "blank." flash. How can I eliminate this?
thank you.

Does anyone have the Visual Basic v1.0 software, disks and manual?  I'm
interested in buying it.

Two small problems relating to Listboxes in VB6
1)                   How do I copy an item from the list box when selecting
a particular entry
2)                   How do I set tab stops when adding fields to the list

My next project requires a VB6 application which can be run from a number of
locations and retrieves and stores data on a MySQL database located on a
ISPs webserver.
I have used VB6 quite a bit but not in database applications so any guidance

I created an extended label as an activex control.  I'd like it to Implement
an interface called IValueModel.  However, each time I try to use an instance
of this label as an IValueModel, I get a type mismatch error.
What am I doing wrong?  Is there any workaround for this?

is there any regular expression tool for vs2005?
Advanced Telesoft, Super Programmer,  Dan
from hkhellhkhell@hotmail.com

How could a VB program obtain the autorisations to write files everywhere in
the hard disk in Windows Vista ?
Thanks,
JF

i want to open a known folder
(i.e. "C:\ToProcess").  inside ToProcess is about 8-10 files, each
having a different name.  so, i want to check  if the files are there.
then, process the files with some code i have already written.  right