VB Forum / General 2 / October 2007

I have a need to get the list of files and folder paths in a zip
archive . I dont need to do anything else , just get the list.
Does anyone know of a FREE or very cheap way to do this .
I have a sort of program  but dont know how reliable it would be .

I'm trying perform the following with a VBA script in Excel 2000:
1. Unhide a hidden worksheet.
2. Copy a range of cells from another worksheet
3. Paste the copied selection into the worksheet that was unhidden.

RE VB5
I would like to graphically plot a series of numbers (exponential - log) in
an x-y coordinate system. This subject is briefly covered in my reference
books, but I am having little success. Does anyone know of a good reference

question about VB 2005 express .
is it possible to refer to controls dynamically?
I mean instead of referring to [ textbox1.text]    can I have a
mystring = "textbox1"

I have been away to long!
How do I run whatever application is associated with a particular file
i.e. If I want to view a pdf file
I tried shell "foo.pdf" to no avail

could anyone tell me where could i find a documentation for visual
basic that contains details of all API's (with there properties and
methods) i have worked on java (java documentation is very good)
and used its documentation,   but i coudnt find a similar

I'm trying to make a nice small IRC network (64 users or less) and I can't
find the perfect IRCd, though Beware IRCd comes close. So I come up with
this stupid though: "Make your own IRCd". Is it feasable? Am I just wasting
my time? If not would any one like to join the project?

Could somebody here please 'translate' these lines from a .Net project? It's
suppose to embed a window into a project but I'm not familar with VB enough
to convert it.
Cheers,

I'm trying to get an array with the letters of the drives my computer has
I've tried this:
Dim LDs As Long, Cnt As Long, sDrives As String
   'get the available drives

I have an application I wrote (last updated in 2001) that a user has just
installed on Vista
He's getting an error message Run-time error 339.
Component "COMDLG32.OCX" or one of it's dependencies not correctly

I am trying to return the vaule of a javscript variable from calling
''some'' function inside my webbrowser control.  Invokescript seems to
work but it is a .NET solution and i am not programming in .NET.
Any ideas anyone??

I have for long used complicated stupid code written in the mid 1990s
for checking if a file exists and if a directory exists. I think you
will be able to help me clean up some of this stuff. What is the
shortest code one can write to (1) check the presence of a file, (2)

I have a simple application in vb.net with a small access database (5
tables all small).
One of these tables is called Customer with a field called Budget
Code.

I have an array that lists data in descending order and want
to use that array to create another array in which the data
reverses (alternates) similar to the following. The array would
still be numbered 1 through 20.  Only the data sequence is

I can't get this to work - it displays yesterday's date -
msgbox "The date one year ago was " & DateAdd("y", -1, Date)
(Windows Vista - vb6)
Any ideas?