VB Forum / General 2 / January 2007

I have a VB6 project that uses a winsock control to receive text
messages over a UDP connection.
It used to work fine. However, when I changed the code to make it more
efficient (ie, less processing was done with each received message), the

My VB6 app needs to be able to read from an Excel .xls file.  However, the
target computer won't have Excel installed.  All the online examples I've
found for reading Excel files assume you're doing this...
Dim xl As Excel.Application

If Data is:  -12.3, -1.23, 0.1, 1.2, 12.3, 1.234
In a column of printed data is there a way to have all the decimal points line
up?  
using: Format(data,"###0.0##") lines up the first character.  It doesn't even

Hey............. when I open ports in my router for playing games,  I want
to be able to check if they really are open to the internet............. How
can I in VB5 scan my ports for accessibility , both UDP and TCP
ports.........??

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I am tryin to send data to a Fortran based program from VBA. I know the
sendkeys approach is not very reliable. I tried saving my data ( to
send ) in a file and then send that to Dos .. .but that doesn't work
either. Can someone plzz help!!

B1 has text in it
A2 has 'x'     B2 has text in it
What I want to do is:
if cell in A1 is empty i want to bypass it

How could I get started on a project that executes upon calling
it..taking 1 csv file in location A and computes average etc.. and then
exports it to a new csv file in another location B? Would this be an
exe file that does it? Does VBasic create exe files? Thanks!

I'm attempting to create a reparse point (directory junction) from VB.
After having read the MSDN on this subject, I tried it out.  This is
what I have so far:
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this is my problem.
I've a Windows 2003 Server without any mail-client (i.e. Outlook), and my
job is create a Visual Basic application which can send mail directly to a
know SMTP

I have a vb6 app that plays MP3 files. I want to be able to select
multiple files from windows explorer and open themin my app using "open
with". This works fine with one file. I can get the file name/path
using the global Command$. However, if multiple files are selected, all

I'm working on a program the gets data from another file.
The code is:
Open "E:\EB\TR\Mc" & DF & ".dat" for input as #1
Error message:  File Not Found

How can I send data using a VB6 app to the same app on another computer
across the internet?  I would like to send the data at the byte level
(which I probably have to do anyway).  Also, how would I deal with
sending data to a specific computer behind a network of multiple

I've got another perplexer.  I'm making a Bible Verse program that
docks to either the top or bottom of the desktop (My testing has it
docking at the bottom).  The Docking form is just a thin (4 pixels
high) bar that is used to detect the mouseover that pops up the other

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