Visual Basic 4 / 5 / 6 Forum

Hy to everybody ... and thx for your help. I have written a small tool to save my outlook E-mails to .msg files The filename of the .msg file is build on the SUBJECT of the mail But a lot of forbiden characters (for windows/DOS) could exist in this subject ! Then I need to replace them by ... for exemple '_' I'm using the <replace> command...

Someone stated in an earlier post that text files can be merged into RTF templates w/out using MS Word. I've looked at the RTF spec, but I'm stuck at finding the best way to write the code replace the tags in the destination file (VB newbie). Any help is greatly appreciated.

Hi all.. Was wondering if anyone knows an activex/ocx that can: read pdf file (to include fillable forms) able to fill in data programmatically able to print able to save the data back out as a pdf I have been evaluating PDF Creator using VB6. Seems like a solid product but

I am making my first simple chat program using winsock. Now I want to see which ports that are open. Is there any program that can show me that? It would be nice to see which ports are open and which program that uses it. Yours, Jonas

i have created toolbar in my mdi form , i hv inserted different icons (buttons) on to it problem is that how can i open different forms through different icons.

I was wondering if anyone could help me with this... I am having problems sharing data between child forms. the setup is as follows: mainFrm <--- MDIForm |----> ViewFrm <----ChildForm |----> SystemFrm <---ChildForm dim Data() as CustomClass Public GetData() as CustomClass public SetData(x, data)

Does anyone have a small vb code sample demonstrating the use of zlib1.dll compression. I am unable to get the compression demo at (http://www.planetsourcecode.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=42297&lng WId=1) to run under vb 6.0 sp5.0. cheers Soeren

Hello, I have a question, can someone help me please? What are the differences between a runtime and a designtime component? Is runtime component only good for running with the .exe and not during development environment using Visual Basic 6 (For example, an error pops out saying License is not found - I am using 3rd party components.)?

Hi I'am working on a program in vb.net / c# and I want to know how I can Validate an audio Stream from the internet. I need to be able to know if a web link is a good audio link or not. For example, These link are good : http://ms.radio-canada.ca/CBF/Radiojournal200403090800.wmv

Hi, One of the components (ActivX Dll developed in VB6) is not behaving properly in ASP pages, while the same is running fine when called from a VB Programs.. . Here is the ASPCode dim objTemplateMgr, tmplFileNemewithPath, sfilename, stemplcode Set objTemplateMgr = Server.CreateObject("TmplMgr.T2DB")

How do I programmitcally create a DSN? I don't need to just create an ADO connection, I don't want to create it from the control panel. I NEED to create it from VB programmatically. Something to the equivalent of using the DAO RegisterDatabase method, but not using DAO. Thanks. Matthew Wells MWells@NumberCruncher.com

Hello, I'm using VB6 with CR9. My CR is filled up with data I build up from VB6 in an access-2000-table. I made a form with a CR9-viewer on it. When I run my vb-application, The form is shown with, at first, no data but after a few clicks on the refresh-button, the data appears. Seems to be somewhere a delay ! Anybody an idea how comes ? ...

Printing content of RichTextBox (as described here (in C#) http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;812425) results in white background of the text printed. Is there any way of sending the content of rich text box to printe and specifying different background color? Any suggestion is more than appreciated! Thanx All!

Hi Guys, I need to pass a C structure of this form from VB6 <-> VC++ 6 struct BTag { int rowIndex; BSTR* valueList; } B;

Hello, Anyone knowing a way or an API Windows to modify the default internet connection ?? In fact i want to use 2 different connections depending the time of the day? Thanks for your answers Yves

Hi, I have a form in MS-Excel 2000. The form hosts a webbrowser control named WebBrowser1. The control works fine with methods like Navigate2, GoBack, Goforward, Refresh. But fails the method Stop with an error message "Rin-time error '-2147221500 (80040004)'; Method 'Stop' of 'IWebBrowser2' failed". Here is my code:

Hello I'm looking for a original version of Visual Basic 4.0 professional Edition. It was last together with my computer stolen. I need this version because I have build some programs with thi version and it's very difficult to convert them to 6.0 Please help and reply.

G'day, Anyone got any VB6 code to read the header information from posts in a couple of Usenet newsgroups ? Thanks.

List members, I need some help on trying to acomplish a task under VB. My goal is to prevent a user from accessing features of my program after a certain amount of days (like an expire date/shareware program). I've read Microsoft's documentation on it, and I've been looking over VB (.NET, 2003) documentation to see how I can do it. The...

Hello, Would anyone have a sample freeware visual basic project that will create cards on a polaroid 75 card printer. Thanks.

Hi All, i have an application written in VB6 that uses a richtextbox to display RTF-formatted text. On most computers the program runs fine, but I have some users who 1. either get no content in the Richtextbox at all 2. have a problem with the formatting of the text (e.g. not the whole text that should be underlined is underlined, only...

Full source code is found on the following site. http://fun-time.8m.com/VB-WordSpellCheck.html

Any one now how to print an object called (Equation 3.0)? And how can i print a textbox with multiline so all the lines are on the middel of the paper?

At the end of this message I've pasted a script we're trying to modify slightly. I don't believe it is VBscript or javascript but these are the closest groups I could find with my limited programming knowledge. Basically, we are trying to add a few lines to this script that will execute a few shell commands (see comments at the very end of...

Hi , I have Datagrid bound to ADODB in Visual Basic 6 accessing MS Access database. My problem is when Datagrid is bound to any dataset...any change in datagrid contents immediately reflecting into table contents..But i want to control the data update to table by command buttons.... while keeping the flexibility of datagrid to...