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• Leeoniya [VB6] print large pricturebox or form in vb6

  Hi friend, I need to print picturebox or form in vb6, which contain other controls & user controls. I used several methods like capture screen or printform method but the form size which i m using is large and during printing visible area of the screen print ok but the form area which is invisible showing in black. can u suggest some ideas for the same. If u get any soln plz mail me at kishoremungel@yahoo.com regards kishor ...Show All

• slack7219 Visual Basic 2005

  In the good old days of VB6 I was able to open a frame and have an arrangement of labels, text, and combo boxes that referenced a real device in the real world. Since there were up to 6 identical devices out in the world I would copy the frame and paste it 5 more times on my form. This would give me 6 identical devices with indexed controls. I could now configure these and handle events in a single procedure and simply index through the controls ...Show All

• RPaton vb.net data base problem

  Dim valida As Boolean Try Dim sql As String = "select * from utilizadores where user ='" & (txtuser.Text) & "' and password ='" & (txtpass.Text) & "'" Dim objDR As New Data.DataTable Dim myConn As String = "Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=|datadirectory|bd.mdf;Integrated Security=True;Connect Timeout=30;User Instance=True" Dim ...Show All

• arnebjarne Reading rtf files

  Hi again, right my problem is I have made a form of writing program that can have writing bold, italics, different font etc.. My problem is when is when I read a document from my applications rtftextbox it will only show the text of the file and no form of formatting but if I save a file with bold formatting and I open the document in notepad then the document will show with the formatting. So I think there is something wrong with my read fun ...Show All

• Scott Ramuno Can the standardoutput stream be forced to send latent data without closing?

  I launch a process (cmd.exe), redirect the input/output streams and can write/read to/from the process.  However, the process does not write to the output stream until a "new line" is detected. For example, if I issue the command "dir" and capture the output I will receive all the directory listing but I will not get the "C:\" prompt.  If I send a blank command (enter key) the prompt will show up.  It is in a buffer somewhere i ...Show All

• Marcos Nunes Problem Downloading Samples

  Downloading code samples from this page generates a message 'Virus Detected' from my AVG virus software. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fyc8kydy.aspx I am interested in the Game sample. Would someone please check by going to the page and trying to download the sample by clicking on the download tab top left hand corner of the page. Steep I'd say it's time to change your anti-virus client. N ...Show All

• CBurgett Creating .exe file to debug a dll proyect

  When I'm going to debug my proyect step by step in Visual C++ 6.0, a dialog box appears; "Please specify the executable file for the debug session." Which executable am I supposed to specify How do I create it You can't run a dll, it needs to be run by an exe.  So, the debugger is asking you what exe to use to run the dll ( i.e. one that will run it ). ...Show All

• Would you really like to know? Is there any way to run a microsoft Word macro inside of my visual basic application?

  Hi. I am making a program that runs microsoft Word's macro automatically. However my application opens actual microsoft Word and run the macro every time and close it again. So it slows down the computer a lot. Is there any way to run the macro inside of my application so my application doesn't have to open microsoft word everytime This is my code ---- Sub ApartDocument(ByVal files As String) Button1.En ...Show All

• shep58029 AnalogTVTuningSpace and MSVidCtl

  I´m trying to develop a decent tv tuner/capture application (since there are no such apps, nowhere, I say) in Visual Basic 6.0. I´m using the MSVidCtl component together with the AnalogTVTuningSpace and IChannelTuneRequest object to achieve this, as desc ...Show All

• Bsraju Textbox Reading

  Hi All, i have a problem with a certain little textbox which i cant seem to get working again , i wish to read everything in a textbox before a certain character , in this case a space how would i get this done where a button is pressed and it will display only the characters before the space into another texbox eg text1 = "John Smith" where as i would like text2 = "John" since the next character wa ...Show All

• Andrew Niemann exporting data to excel

  Hi, i need to export a query result to excel. I did it using a few methods but it seems that it is taking to long if loading large amount of data like 1000 rows. I did looping a datatable and write the values to excel via excel object 11.0. - 20 secs for 1000 rows exporting the data to CVS but i will have problems formatting the data. using copyfromrecordset using adodb. But they want it to be done in .net Are there any better and ...Show All

• BnglCat Photo Matching Database

  User selects a picture and querys the database for a match. How do I write the Code for this SELECT id, image, description FROM pictures [database] WHERE image EQUALS picturebox1.image I am concerned that the "image" format stored in the db will not match  picturebox1.image and that I probably will have to convert picturebox1 into a binary array to match the format already in the database.  Furthe ...Show All

• Gemazz Gonna make me sound stupid

  I know this is gonna make me sound stupid, but I have to ask anyways because I have no clue.  I new at creating programs in Visual Basic. And I was wondering how to complete a program so that you can run it without having to open it with Visual Studio. For instance lets say that I wrote and alarm clock program for my labtop. Now how do I make the program so that it will work as a stand alone program without the need for Visual Basic Remembe ...Show All

• rockzcm Serial communications garbled

  I have a problem with an application that was written in VB 6.0. I wrote an application in VB 6.0 about two years ago and it has been running fine until recently. At some of our cutomers locations the serial communications is being sent gets garbled, but it recieves fine. If the the computer is reset and the application is run, it runs ok for a couple of days and then the problem reoccurs. Any ideas on what it could be ...Show All

• prawin FileStream.Write

  I use a filestream to write a byte array back to a file. Dim filepath As String = "c:\program files\ApplicationData.doc" Dim fs As New FileStream(filepath, FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write)fs.Write(BLOB, 0, CInt (BLOB.Length)) Next Instructions Will code operation stop on the fs.write until the file write operation to disk has completed, or do I need to trap the end of the write operation  before allowing my 'Next Instru ...Show All