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- Displaying file properties from within VB6
- over my headI liked the concept, but the description was far too deep into geekspeak for it to be usable for me. I don't do heavy programming in VB6, just complex macro work in XL. Would've needed to hold my hand, explaining each piece of the coding, for this to...
- Tags: annmarie.cross@..., CStr, file properties, fMask, Long strSQL, lpVerb & vbCr, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, nShow, programming, ShellExecuteEx shInfo strSQL, String, String strSQL, strSQL, vb6
- Discussion threads 2005-08-19
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- VB6 ToolTipText
- How do I produce a "wrap round" in the text inputfor the ToolTipText property. Would like to produce a "box" of text not one complete line of text.You may want to try the carriage return vbCr preceeded and followed by ampersand. I've never tried using in this context, but it...
- Tags: Len, Me.txtMsg.SelLength, Me.txtMsg.Text, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, programming, stokecity, TempMsg, Text1.Text, trapper, vbCr
- Q&A 2005-05-13
- AD how to get a listing of security groups?
- I am having to trawl through the properties and security groups and then type out each individual group. Is there an easy way to do this that i could employ. If anyone can help i would be a very happy bunny!Only way is scripting it seems..As far as I know...
- Tags: isla23@..., security, strLDAP, objGroup, strDNSDomain, strUser, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2007-05-01
- Displaying file properties from within VB6
- It can be a useful technique to find the properties of a file from within a VB6 program. Peter Aitken demonstrates how to do that in this quick tip. If you right-click a file name in Explorer and select Properties, Windows displays a dialog box with a variety...
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Peter Aitken, shInfo, Visual Basic Tips Newsletter, TechRepublic Inc., Property, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Corporate Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing
- Technical articles 2005-08-18
- Install Fonts, Stealth mode
- Is there a way to install fonts without using the ControlPanel/Font applet? For instance, is there a way through a CLI script to do a stealth install of new fonts? I'm open to any suggestion that keeps me from going to each desktop to add new fonts. Thanks.I believe you...
- Tags: font
- Q&A 2005-10-06
- Access: Find 2nd occurence of a string
- In a field named 'File' in MS Access XP I have text representing 'Artist - Album - Title'. I need to pull everything left of the second ' - ' string to create a directory path named ArtistAlbum. I can use "SELECT Left([File],InStr([File],' -')) AS DirName" but that pulls from...
- Tags: ByVal FieldValue, DirName, File, InStr, Maricaibo, Microsoft Access, programming, SELECT Left, Variant Dim sPath
- Q&A 2005-03-01
- that feature
- that featurehas always annoyed the hell out of me...same goes for that start menu. when i first got xp at work it was kind of useful to group together 10+ my computer windows, although it still annoyed me after a while cos i was less inclined to close...
- Tags: taskbar, vbCR & vbCR Caption, group similar taskbar buttons, Bill_P, hardware, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Caption, window
- Discussion threads 2006-05-25
- Make use of Visual Basic's predefined constants
- VB6 provides a set of predefined symbolic constants that you can use anywhere in your program. This article takes a look at a few of the more useful constants. Visual Basic 6 provides a set of predefined symbolic constants that you can use anywhere...
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Visual Basic, vbNullChar, vbNullString, vbObjectError, Peter Aitken, Microsoft development tools, Programming languages, Visual Basic Tips Newsletter, TechRepublic Inc., Character, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Technical articles 2005-07-29
- Start-Up Script
- My Fellow Administrators:I respectfully resquest your assistance with a script. My objective is to use GPO to deploy a startup script which will delete a file in the root directory, then run a program located on a network share.I have succesfully created a script that worked when manually launched....
- Tags: BlitzSonik, windows, C:\deletethisfile.txt
- Q&A 2005-10-17
- Creating a DSN using Visual Basic
- Creating ODBC data source names DSNs by hand can be a hassle. Learn how to create DSNs programmatically.Q: I am developing software that uses an ODBC data source name DSN to locate a database that's out on the network. The problem is that on every client, I have to create...
- Tags: Microsoft development tools, Databases, ODBC API, Microsoft Visual Basic, Lamont Adams, DSN, RegisterDatabase, DAO
- Technical articles 2001-08-16
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