VB Forum / General 2 / May 2007

I am trying to create a VB 6 program which will read in a text file,
compare each line to the next one to see if they are the same, then
copy that line out to another file.  The problem resides in the
function IsFileOpen.  It opens the text file to make sure it is not

Where is everyone?
Has someone erroneously set this newsgroup's Enabled property to False?
...lets make sure...
comp.lang.visual.basic.Enabled=True

Do you know of Visual Basic versions which can be compiled on Linux
for running on Linux as well as Windows? Something like OpenOffice for
Visual Basic 6.0 and lower?
I am going to have one computer running Linux and one running Windows

Been having nasty random intermitent stop error 0 x 804E39A7 for a couple of
years now on windows xp pro. Turns out that the problems apparently began
when I replaced my old APC UPS with a new Tripplite UPS. Evidently, APC's
software left some detritus in my system when their ...

I use the following code to launch another program and to wait for it to
end before continuing (I've left out the API definitions for brevity).
The problem is that the program that contains this code runs at 99% CPU
while the called program is running and this is down to the Do ... ...

Here the facts as code sample:
Public Class Class1
   Sub ABC(ByVal item As IUnit)
   End Sub

I am getting this error on FOrm load  on a client PC.. any ideas??

Private Function createBankTypes() As String
Dim typeOrder(13) As String
Dim X As Object
Dim N As Integer

How can I draw a line which a user can rotate and change the value
displayed in a text box?
I have found no events associated with the line control.
- Sanjay Kulkarni

Hi all, while compiling, i received this message.."User defined type not
defined".
I dont have msdn so i cannot see whats it mean in help so greatly appreciate
help on this

I have two shortcuts on my desktop at present, the first opens a VPN
connection and the second starts Microsoft Outlook.  I have written
the following batch file to automate the process but it is untidy and
does not look very professional.

I am trying to design a program that will allow a user to draw a
simple shape on a Bitmap (or JPG or whatever), but also be able to
Zoom.  I am able to zoom with the Image control, but it does not allow
you to call any graphics methods.  I am able to call graphics methods,

I am using VB6.
I am maintaining an old desktop application created in VB6.
I ran setup on the users PC. When I try to run the application I get
the error :

Has anyone else had a problem linking to outlook from within the IDE, I have
code like
   Set oLapp = Nothing
   Set oLapp = GetObject(, "Outlook.Application")

I have an .exe that runs on my machine, but not on network. the error
message is :
Unhandled Exception: System.Security.SecurityException: Request for
the permission of type 'System.Security.Permissions.