VB Forum / General 2 / August 2008

I have the opportunity to rescue a project that
uses a mouse to sense the relative position of a machine.
The hardware is built...just needs to be programmed.
Stop snickering!!! I didn't do it...I just gotta fix it.

I am just launching into new territory.  I am writing VBA with EXCELL
(Office XP 2002).  I am not in my preferred SQL environment.  So I
have the need to access general routines that copy simple SQL "Select"
statements;

G'day everyone
Has anyone come across a tool that can scan a VB binary, figure out
what  COM objects are being used, figure out their dependencies, and
list what's missing? Some thing like Depends.exe for ActiveX/COM would

Is anyone else here an MSDN subscriber?
I can sign in to MSDN, but I can't get to the 'Downloads & Product Keys'
page. I could yesterday at work, but cannot now I'm at home, even going
through the main MSDN screen (http://msdn.microsoft.com/default.asp).

I'm using Visual Basic 3.0.  running under Vista Ultimate.  I'm running as
the Administrator.  VB seems to work fine, except when I try to create a
.EXE.  Then I get an alert box with this:
   NTVDM.EXE has stopped working

I need to erase a dll after use in a VB6 program:
In my program, I install a dll in the Windows/system32 directory (from the
program resource), then my program use this DLL, but when i try to "Kill"
this Dll to erase it, the DLL is still in use, and i cannot erase it, until

Many people in Europe use decimal commas instead of decimal points.
How do you deal with this problem? I suspect Visual Basic 6.0 might
know it should read numbers with commas, but it does not seem to be
trivial.

My application creates empty libraries. How do I ensure that the user
copies at least one or more picture files (.jpg) in each of the empty
folders ? Result , no empty folders!
regards pjl

Greetings,      I am a newbe to programming and need help to understand
the following code. It appears that the collections are   part of the user
defined data type is that correct?Private Type AuthorInfo
   AuthorName As String

I want to automate any email client running on Windows and save the
generated email in as Draft.
I was trying to use MAPI control with VB6 but when i save it gives
"Unspecified Failure has occured"

how can I bring together files belonging to a project in a single
folder. At the moment, my Visual basic project is spread over several
projects
Kind regards.

When I try to execute the program in this site:
http://www.ostrosoft.com/vb/projects/FindFileByExt/index.asp
I get an compile error ('variable not defined') at the last statement:
Dir1.Path = sDir

Hopefully an easy one for someone.  I'm writing a small app (Visual Studio
2008) which will take an existing access database we have and show it in a
form I'm writing. The fields have say customer and their files info. Record
1 could have customer name, the file box number, ...

I have been reading text from a disk-file but the lines of text are being
truncated.
It looks like some punctuation characters are not being read in.
I need to read a whole line, including any leading and trailing spaces.