VB Forum / General 2 / July 2007

Sure their has to be an easy way to simply write a text file in vb...
Say for example I have a list of peoples names...
John
Fred

It's been quite awhile since I used VB, and then it was with Excel. I need
to write some code in it, and am wondering if there's a free-bee
interpreter/compiler for it. I found
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/>, but haven't downloaded it.

I am using Visual Basic 6
I get an error message that says
" Compile error:
 User-defined type not defined"

Years ago I wrote an app in VB4, later ported to VB6.  It still sells
in small numbers, but I've been asked by the client if it will run
under Vista.  It's a pretty straightforward beast - it connects to an
Access 97 database and uses Crystal Reports.

How can make a timer (COUNTER) in vb6?
Thanks

My apologies if this has appeared before, I'm having ISP problems which
now seem to have been resolved.
A bit back someone asked about making in VB a strip chart recorder.
I have ~20 lines of code that does that. If the OP cares to re-post I'd

I have written the code below which works fine as long as the text
that is being retrieved is only on one line - however if the text
contains a carriage return (line break) only the first line of text is
retrieved, is there anyway to retrieve all of the text?

Hi Gurus,
I have a OCX control in my VB 6.0 application for displaying images
(tif) . I enable its selection mode on. when I give point and drag
mouse on the image in the control a dotted selection rectangle is

Reposted because of wrong
description in "Subject".
Hi All.
I recently got myself a new PC.

I have an archive database where each row contains data that really
should be in separate tables. I am trying to write a program that will
allow me to extract fields from the archive database an insert the data
into specific tables in a new database. The following code is part of ...

useing vb 6 pro I can't find any source code on how to click on a hyper link
on a web page with vb code.
Forgive me if I am being to vague but if anyone can give me a sample
for instance by viewing the source on a web pabe I can see

After VB program installation on my Dell XPS w/ WinXP, when I run the app I
get "Runtime Error 429.  ActiveX Component Can't Create Object".  But all
ocx files were in the install file, and they reside in Windows/System32
directory.  There are only 3 ocx files in the install ...

I'm following this tutorial:
http://externalweb.exhedra.com/DirectX4VB/Tutorials/DirectX8/GR_Lesson08.asp
but it doesn't say how to load an object that isn't at the origin.
Does anyone know how to load a pre-created Direct X object at say (1,1,1)

I was just wondering if there is a way to add a radio button to a
VSFlexGrid 7.0.
Thank you.

Need to know how to create temporary files and write data into it as
well as read data from it.
--deostroll