VB Forum / General 2 / September 2008

Hello again folks!
Long time, no see....
I'm stuck! (Hard to believe, huh)? ;-)
Scenario:

I am trying extract some info from the xml below Ive been using vb6
with the DOM document I can get one instance of <Unit> but cant figure
out how to get the rest , all I actualy need is to extract is the
values for <fspartNum> and <fsSetPos> , there could be 40 instances of

I have a large number of data sheets in excel which i am ysing to
tranfer data from into a routine that uses the data for analysis.There
are over 50 sheets which input data into individual arrays, now at
present i ahve a very lengthy routine that is pages long just for

I have an integer, say 150 for example which is represented in binary as
10010110, I want to perform a circular left shift on the most significant
bit "1" so that the result is 00101101 which is 45 in decimal. Is there a
fast an efficient way to perform this task rather than ...

I use the standard VB set-up program for installing applications on
user's computers.
I add an icon pointing to the application's .exe file by adding the
following line towards the end of the Form_Load procedure of Form

I have a series of counters using the long datatype and am using the copymem
function to copy into a 4 element array and then concatenating the array to
a string
Dim stuff As String

Many years ago I wrote a relatively simple program in QB. 1200 lines,
global variables, plenty of do-loops, gosubs, if-then statements, a
couple of function calls, etc., simple even by QB standards. I used to
say it was written in a subset of QB, spaghetti basic. It's just about

I've reinstalled my Windows XP including the VB6 development
system. All works well except the API guide:
When I launch API-Guide.exe I get nothing but a run time error '5'
Invalid procedure call or argument.

I have a VB6 Learning edition which I haven't used for some time,
decided to get my son to start having a go & found the new download on
the MS site.. Visual Vasic Express 2008
I downloaded to his machine and it looks very good but is there a

I am writing a VB-Application to retrieve computer information using
WMI. Here is the example of the code to get the process list:
Imports System.Management
Imports System.Management.Instrumentation

I'm having trouble with the timer control in VB6. I have a form with
a timer control and a command button, and this simple code:
Dim TimeOut As Boolean
Private Sub Form_Load()

I wrote an app that alerts a user who attempts to open a file that the
file is currently in use.  It works fine except when the file is
opened by Notepad.  If a text file is opened, most computers are
configured to use Notepad to open the file by default and if they are

Starting an VB 6 compiled application on some computers causes the following
error:
"Run-time error '50003': Unexpected error".
The first form is loaded correctly. Then somewhere in the unloading of the

I'm having trouble with the timer control in VB6. I have a form with
a timer control and a command button, and this simple code:
Dim TimeOut As Boolean
Private Sub Form_Load()

hello I have a VB6 project which currently accesses a Access 97
database.  I now need to upgrade to access 2003 (yeah I know we're
behind and I am upgrading to c# later -  this is an intermediate step)
the project references when using access 97 were: