Visual Basic 6 Questions


Truncation of printer output
I have for many years been using Visual Basic 6 to manage libraries for my Stamp Collection, Video Library etc. In these programs is a facility to print out a record entry’s content to provide labels etc. Last week, for the first time ever, the print-out, which are normally about 80 characters across the page, [...]

Answer Question   |  June 10, 2013  2:37 PM
Visual Basic 6, Visual Basic printing
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25 pts.

Date$ refresh status
If a VB 6 program runs day after day, is the value in Date$ equal to the value when the program was executed or is that value refreshed daily? A calendar program that I wrote sets the backcolor for today’s date different than the other days; however, I just noticed that yesterdays date was highlighted [...]

Answer Question   |  May 9, 2013  8:47 PM
Visual Basic 6, Visual Basic commands
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60 pts.

VB 6 conversion to Visual Studio 2008
I have been given the rules that are provided with the Visual Studio 2008 but they are useless. I would like to know if anyone has a good comprehensive set of rules for Visual Studio 2008 Dot Net Professional edition to convert VB 6 code?

Answer Question   |  May 8, 2013  2:21 PM
Visual Basic 6, Visual Studio 2008
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20 pts.

Detecting program shut down
How can I include the minimize and maximize buttons and not the close program button (the “X” in the upper right corner? This is in VB6.

Answer Question   |  May 6, 2013  3:56 AM
Visual Basic 6, Visual Basic Functions
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60 pts.

To create weekly report based on daily data VB6
I have daily data that need to display at grid as weekly report. The displays at the grid, based on Monday-Sunday as a week.

Answer Question   |  April 15, 2013  3:49 AM
Visual Basic 6, Visual Basic report
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10 pts.

Visual Basic
CREATE A PROGRAM THAT GRANTS PENSION TO PEOPLE BY FOLLOWING THESE CRITERIA:(a)the status must be single,married,widow,divorce (b)the age must be equal or greater than 60 and the person must meet one of the criteria in (a). (c)if a woman is married the age must be greater than 60 and husband greater than 65 .the program [...]

Answer Question   |  April 8, 2013  12:09 PM
Visual Basic 6, Visual Basic program
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15 pts.

VB 6 image
VB program I wrote several years ago shows an image when I click on a control. I have been unable to find the code that causes that image to appear. Nowhere in the program is a mouse-down or keypress _ click found. Also would like to know a way to view the contents of an [...]

Answer Question   |  April 5, 2013  4:09 PM
Visual Basic 6, Visual Basic images
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60 pts.

Icon link
I am new at this game. Please help. I would like to place a link on my website so that I can share a .RAR program for a free download. The program was written by me years ago with Visual Basic 6.(approx 8mb)

Answer Question   |  March 6, 2013  7:00 AM
Visual Basic 6, Web applications
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10 pts.

Elliptic ring generation problem
Hi, I’m working on a multiple rings galaxy generation script. Everything works fine but one thing: two of the rings partially repeat themselves with an offset from the planned position. I guess it’s only a logic mistake but I just can’t find out! You can look at these images for a better understanding: http://www.amelora.com/galpict1.jpg http://www.amelora.com/galpict2.jpg [...]

Answer Question   |  February 12, 2013  6:30 AM
Visual Basic 6, Visual Basic code
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15 pts.

How to fix run-time error 3709 with my computer
When I try to run my program it says run-time error 3709 the connection cannot be used to perform this action, it is either closed or invalid in this context. mean while I used a module in which i put the following codes : Public cn As ADODB.Connection Public Sub Main() Dim cn As ADODB.Connection [...]

Answer Question   |  October 11, 2012  2:08 PM
Visual Basic 6, Visual Basic Error Messages
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5 pts.

Connect VB6 with Oracle 10g
How to connect VB6 with oracle 10g with source code?

Answer Question   |  October 10, 2012  4:16 AM
Oracle 10g, Visual Basic 6
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5 pts.

VB Code to solve y = sqrt of x^2 – 5z/2a +Sin x – Cos z (x^3 – e^a)
Write a VB application to solve following expression: y = sqrt of x^2 – 5z/2a +Sin x – Cos z (x^3 – e^a)

Answer Question   |  October 8, 2012  1:57 PM
Visual Basic 6, Visual Basic Functions
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30 pts.

SMS in Arabic
I have developed an SMS application in VB6 which sends messages in English. But I don’t know how to convert the Arabic characters to some Unicode language. Please help me. Thank you.

Answer Question   |  October 2, 2012  7:01 AM
Visual Basic 6, Visual Basic Functions
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5 pts.

Is there any way to create a .sln file containing Visual Basic 6 Projects?
We have numerous Visual Basic 6 projects that we would like to incorporate into 1 solution so we could add it to Team Foundation Server 2010. I have searched for days and cannot find any information. Is this possible to do? I would be extremely grateful for any help.

Answer Question   |  August 7, 2012  4:44 PM
.sln, Team Foundation Server 2010, Visual Basic 6, Visual Studio 2010
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10 pts.

VB6 with too many SQL Select Statements
Hi Team, hope you can help me out here.. I have a VB6 form that is populated using VB6 and Access being the Repository. The problem is that I am opening and closing the Database for every query I have.. Approx 87 queries. In short I have 12 Rooms that I need stats for.. Ie [...]

Answer Question   |  June 7, 2012  9:08 AM
Microsoft Access 1997, Visual Basic 6
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225 pts.

vb.net development environment
I am coming out of retirement and have a couple of projects I was going to do in VB6. After doing a little research it became clear that I needed to migrate my development environment from VB6/sp6 to VB.Net. My question is very basic,, what do I need to start VB.Net development? I do not [...]

Answer Question   |  February 28, 2012  2:53 PM
MySQL, Visual Basic 6, Visual Studio 2010
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5 pts.

connecting Visual Basic 6 program to wamp server
How to connect vb6 program to wamp server

Answer Question   |  October 21, 2011  7:10 AM
VB 6.0, Visual Basic 6, WAMP Stack
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25 pts.

Visual Basic 6 problems with RS-232 communications
Hello! I have 2 problems with Visual Basic 6 mscomm32.ocx serial communications activex: 1. I’m having a new generation pci RS-232 interface with FIFO-UART 16950 and I face the problem that I can’t receive all incoming strings, but a part of them. 2. My application supports up to 6 RS-232 ports with mixed settings. I [...]

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  12:04 PM
RS-232, Serial Communications, Serial ports, VB6, Visual Basic 6
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5 pts.

How to Use the Query in Foxpro to Visual Basic 6
i making a program that will sort or index the table in foxpro, i use sql code to generate the code in visual basic 6.0 but it has always an error.. i’m using ado data control, and here are my codes..   Adodc1.ConnectionString = “Provider=VFPOLEDB.1;Data Source=G:Documents and SettingsDP2205DesktopDataEnvironment;Password=”";Collating Sequence=MACHINE” Adodc1.RecordSource = ” SELECT Books.book_id, Books.title, [...]

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  9:02 AM
FoxPro, SQL Query, Visual Basic 6
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85 pts.

Creating Temporary File in Visual Basic 6 using Foxpro
How can i make a temporary file in visual basic 6 using visual foxpro 9 as backend?,,, i manage to make a temporary file in foxpro but i didn’t no how to do it in visual basic,,please help me,,

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  8:30 AM
FoxPro, Temporary files, VB 6.0, Visual Basic 6
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85 pts.