VB Forum / General 2 / December 2006

As in my previous post mentioned disappered VB6 Helpfile I would like to
know
what VB6 .CHM or .HLP file is the base help file.
It seem to be defined in the VB6 IDE in:

As an amateur developer, only making the occasional utility or
database program, I don't look forward to the prospect of having to
learn all the new language changes in .NET. I have it installed, and I
started on a project recently I figured I would try it in .NET since

A bit the same problem as before.
I select a path \\server\c$ and want to perform file actions on this
path.
But I need to use an administrator account on this.

I have used data report and I got an error when I use Group Section,
the error message is "Section doesnot match with data source"
Any idea to solve this problem? when I remove this group, the reportt
is ok, but when I activate it , the error come even no control in the

I need a list of text and beside each text line I need a check box.
What is the best way to construct this?

We're still using Visual Basic 6 (instead of dot net) due to a decision
by a manager that dot net required installing more code on all our
user's computers.
Anyway, what I need to know is, how to debug an activeX exe or an

Spent all day tweaking the code trying to get it to properly deal with 1-bar
swings.
I'm just not thinking right.
If you don't mind and have the time, can you look at these examples?

Windows Update seems to damage DAO 3.6 libraries. I miss a reference to
Microsoft DAO 3.6 in my VB6 projects... and so do my customers (!!!) ...
just after Windows XP update.
The only workaround I know is to re-install Jet SP 3 (Jet35sp3.exe - nut

Using Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 at a certain time the Visual Basic help
part was not available anymore in the help utilities 'Active subset'
textbox.
I reinstalled MSDN

I'm sure there's a simple explanation for this, but I can't find
anything on google and it's driving me nuts!
I can't get subs or functions to be recognized in the immediate window.
I have one form with no controls, no additional modules.  I created

Is there a reasonable way to implement a ComboBox which displays two (or
more) columns of data when you click the arrow but only displays/stores one
of the columns when the user makes a selection from the dropdown list ?
TIA

I've initialized a procedure level variable to a date data type... I fill it
with a value from my recordset, but want to then "reset" the variable to
empty.  I've tried setting it to null, to nothing and to "", but each time I
get an error.

Hi what I want to do is I want to read text from a txt file and then output
it to a griline on a form which would have a cancel and save button.  What I
got so far is a bit of code that would read the text from the txt file but
I'm not sure how I would output that onto the form.  ...

or radio buttons.. what ever there called...
When I start my app my radio buttons are all off...
When the user selects one, one turns on, select another and the
previous turns of and the new on...

My VB 6.0 CD were lost or damaged.  Yes, I have a copy at another
location, but just for the sake of discussion, how would I replace the
sole means of my livelihood?  I work at aplace that may never outgrow
VB 6.0 (or win 2000 for that matter).