VB Forum / General 2 / May 2008

Hello together,
I want to write a program in Visual Basic 6 (NOT visualbasic.net), which
runs resident in the background and executes some commands as soon as it
detects a new USB-Drive.

I have a program whereby I send and xml order to a payment service and they
send an xml reply. Mostly the reply reads AUTHORIZED or REFUSED but
sometimes if the payers postcode is wrong or not included or the
Cardholders name or other crad details are incorrect I get a reply with a

I recently lost my VB6 installation due to a system crash.  I still
have the program files, and I have the serial number.  MS no longer
has the replacement CDs.  Is there any way I can reinstall?

Hi VB6 programmers,
I just went into a trap which I want to prevent your from...
Sometimes I use the one-line if...then construction for its simplicity:
if a / b > 0 then c = d

Last year, someone sent me a working copy of VB 6.0 from the Sams book
"Teach Yourself VB in 21 Days".  This was enough to get a program that
my wife wrote in VB 6.0 to run on my XP machine.  I bought a laptop with

where have all the pros gone? dam tangled up in that net I bet

I have an application that I have developed.  It has a UI that
manipulates an Access database.  I would like to allow multiple user
to access this application.  Is there a setting somewhere in the
properties?  Does the application need to be put on a server?

i have an asp solution running on IIS 6.0 that calls vb6 dll's. i can
take one of the dll's out of com plus, and run it through visual
studio 6.0 so i can step through the code. when i do this with another
of the dll's, i get the following error:

I'm using visual basic 6 , i would like to write code that do the following

1 - open an excel template (.xlt ) with text data to import
2 - specify the path to the .txt file

Is there any difference in speed between these 2 methods?
In .BAS Module
Global Const MPH_TO_FPS = 5280 / 3600     'Convert MPH to Feet per
Second

I'm trying to write a small app for my wife's chiropractic
business.   She needs a list of patients, schedule and a way to print
insurance forms with codes.
I could use MS Access...which is great because searching for patients

I have several textboxes, I want to click on one to select it, then click a
button to insert the text from the clipboard into it.
I've tried several ways to do this, but can't figure it out.
Can anyone help! (simply)

Personally, I don't care for random job postings in the groups I read,
so please don't take offense to this message.  I am not a recruiter.
I have a very genuine offer for full-time employment for a talented
individual.

Assume I write a console application using Visual Basic, I am
wondering if that compiled console application can run alone (without
any need of some additional VB files)?
Thank you.

I have a combo box on a form that is poulated at runtime with a list of
years. When the form is populated, if the data has a year I set teh
combobox.text to display the year. If this then needs changing the
listindex is shown as -1. How can I iterate through the combobox items