Question: How do I go about creating a RICH TEXT FIELD in VB ? Answer: This problem has been fixed in VB4…they included a rich textbox control. However, I don’t

Question: I am trying to write an application which will provide the ability todynamically add or update tables in an Access .MDB database. Everything inthe application runs when I do

Question: I am designing an application that should be able to createnew databases in the specific format that it expects tosee. I have not seen anything anywhere on how to

Question: I have a VB app that uses multiple forms. On the first form, I entercustomer information. The other forms calculate the cost of my services tomy customer. I would

Question: I’ve created a toolbar for an MDI app using a top-aligned panel and a number of image controls. When the user clicks on an “up” image, the image picture

Question: In a question off your list, you mentioned how to rename files given the same formatted extension.How would it be possible to do this to a different extention, e.g.

Question: I am new to programing & was wondering if you can write database programs with VB or do you have to use a third party DB program like Access

Question: I tried running a “hello world” VB4 32bit program from Win32 in Windows 3.1 (on a machine that has VB3 Pro and not VB4), which caused the following errors:VBRUN40032.DLL

Question: I’m trying to call a method on my ActiveX control from VBScript. The method has one input argument (a long) and three output arguments (doubles). I Dim variables for

Question: Hi, I would like to know how to make input masks for a database program. I can do this in Access very easily, but unfortunately, I have to write

Question: I was wondering if there is a way to use a set of quotes in a vb string. Answer: If you put two double quotes into your string, VB

Question: When I issue the command ‘NET USE’ in msdos, I get a message that a specific drive is disconnected, how can I connect that drive in VB? If I

Question: I have an input file whose structure consists of a code forforeground color, a code for background color, and some text.I’d like to display the text in a scrollable

Question: Is there a decompiler for Visual Basic executables so that I can retrieve the original source code? Answer: Currently, there is only a decompiler for VB 3.0 and VB

Question: I have a text box that updates a memo field in Access.I would like to give the users the ability to insert tabs.The KeyDown and Keypress will not recognize

Question: I have problem with the statement “SaveSetting” in VB 4.0 16 bit. Answer: SaveSetting writes entries to the Registry, which is a Win95 32-bit feature. Under 16-bit VB and

Question: Is there a database query/report design tool with source code written in VB, that works reasonably fast. In addition to being relatively fast, the program would have to be

Question: I am creating a touch screen directory for a hospital. All of departments are listed in alphabetic order as a button which, when pressed displays a map of the

Question: I have started using VB3 yesterday to do a small project. I use Access normally. I wish to set use one button to initiate a loop and another button

Question: I would like to know if I could obtain a listingof the functions in the netapi.dll file and howto declare them in VB. It would be mostappreciated. Answer: The

Question: I’m creating an email application and I require the ability to highlightall the items in the ListView control (not just the first item) in thesame fashion as Microsoft Exchange

Question: The version of VB doesn’t matter…anyway. How is it possible to create an object in vbscript if you can’t Dim something ‘As’ something? In creating a page, I am

Question: I also want to know how to create a title screen, then give it a delay to wait load the program…sort of how windows loads (first you see the

Question: I am having trouble saving dates into an Access 1.1 DateTime field. The aplication I am writing is for the European market, so international dates are a problem as

Question: Do you know of any plans to include basic I/O in VBSCript ? I could make my site a lot more efficient if I could send a text file

Question: I am new to VB and must learn it by yesterday! I am working with text strings and must figure out how to pull words from a line by

Question: Do you know an algorithm that will give me the elapsed time froma beginning and end date/times (day:hh:mm:ss)? Answer: The DateDiff function, included with VB 3 and 4, will

Question: How do I get VB to edit the registry inruntime? Answer: The easiest way, assuming you’re in VB 4.0 and using Win95, is to use the GetSetting and SaveSetting

Question: When you read a string from a character field in a snapshot/dynaset you can append a pair of double quotes to protect yourself from “Type mismatch” errors, if the

Question: How do I delete a control AND the corresponding code? Answer: When a control is deleted, the code is listed in the (general) section in the Procedures drop-down list