Activity Stream - VBForums

Today, 08:06 AM

Mith replied to a thread CommonControls (Replacement of the MS common controls) in CodeBank - Visual Basic 6 and earlier

OK, i think i got it now! I found this info: "When this property is set to 0, the maximum length of the text that can be entered in the control is...

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Today, 07:55 AM

Mith replied to a thread CommonControls (Replacement of the MS common controls) in CodeBank - Visual Basic 6 and earlier

I found a solution to fix this problem: i had to set the property "MaxLength" from 0 to 200.000 to enter more text. The amount of characters in...

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Today, 07:24 AM

wqweto replied to a thread rename file in each sudir in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Ask ChatGPT

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Today, 06:52 AM

Prodt Games replied to a thread VS 2013 Add 1 to an Integer value in My.Settings in Visual Basic .NET

Je n'ai pas encore essayé, j'ai continué à écrire du code pour mon logiciel, je vais essayer ça dans un instant.

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Today, 06:21 AM

Mith replied to a thread CommonControls (Replacement of the MS common controls) in CodeBank - Visual Basic 6 and earlier

Hi Krool, i have a strange problem with the RichTextBox control: Normally i can start editing the text after loading a text file into the...

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Today, 06:21 AM

PlausiblyDamp replied to a thread VS 2013 Add 1 to an Integer value in My.Settings in Visual Basic .NET

Have you tried doing that? If not, surely that would have been quicker and easier to try than getting someone else online to try it for you!

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Today, 06:19 AM

xxdoc123 replied to a thread I manage to give IME support to the VB6 classic ANSI window for UserControl only in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

have a demo

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Today, 03:50 AM

Prodt Games replied to a thread VS 2013 Add 1 to an Integer value in My.Settings in Visual Basic .NET

Thank you very much, I have a quick question: can I do this: My.Settings.VariableName = My.Settings.VariableName + 1 My.Settings.Save()

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Yesterday, 11:04 PM

Eduardo- replied to a thread I manage to give IME support to the VB6 classic ANSI window for UserControl only in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Also I think that there is little activity because people that works in VB6 already don't have many questions. And they can search the forum for...

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Yesterday, 07:34 PM

Episcopal replied to a thread I manage to give IME support to the VB6 classic ANSI window for UserControl only in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Yes, if you look closely, it makes sense. But here it is, alive and well, running on Win11 (the latest operating system). They say it all depends on...

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Yesterday, 06:51 PM

James Reynolds replied to a thread How to make a property page have a name in the properties window like (Custom) in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Thanks for the answers, but the question is simpler. I found it yesterday while looking through the OCX I was creating, and there's a property in the...

3 replies | 274 view(s)

Yesterday, 03:27 PM

joaquim started a thread how test, using macros\pre-processor code, if a function is defined? in C and C++

how test, using macros\pre-processor code, if a function is defined? heres the entire code that i'm testing: #include <iostream> #include...

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Yesterday, 03:19 PM

.paul. replied to a thread [RESOLVED] Webbrowser slower than code and WebBrowser1_DocumentCompleted seems to be faster in Visual Basic .NET

Why can’t you just use VBA??? You’re not open to learning VB.Net. You are using VBA style legacy code and insisting on continuing using VBA methods....

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Yesterday, 02:21 PM

FunkMonkey replied to a thread [RESOLVED] Webbrowser slower than code and WebBrowser1_DocumentCompleted seems to be faster in Visual Basic .NET

If the flag is thrown and the browser is still spinning, what difference is it going to make if it is a Polling or event? The flag is still going to...

27 replies | 1772 view(s)

Yesterday, 02:19 PM

FunkMonkey replied to a thread [RESOLVED] Webbrowser slower than code and WebBrowser1_DocumentCompleted seems to be faster in Visual Basic .NET

Thanks for everyones input. I don't see this being resolved for the moment so no since in keeping it open. Seems VBA interacts with IE much different...

27 replies | 1772 view(s)

Yesterday, 02:02 PM

.paul. replied to a thread VS 2022 Open file via File Explorer with exe built in VS and retrieve filename. in Visual Basic .NET

To do what you're asking for, you'd set the association in the registry, then react to the doubleclick with an app similar to what i posted.

4 replies | 114 view(s)

Yesterday, 02:00 PM

.paul. replied to a thread VS 2022 Open file via File Explorer with exe built in VS and retrieve filename. in Visual Basic .NET

In your exe, it'd be something like this... Module ModMain Public Sub main(ByVal args() As String) Dim path As String If...

4 replies | 114 view(s)

Yesterday, 01:58 PM

CB Sales replied to a thread VS 2022 Open file via File Explorer with exe built in VS and retrieve filename. in Visual Basic .NET

What I'm trying to achieve is to have my VB.NET program know the name of the file that was opened e.g. double clicked in Windows Explorer. I want my...

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Yesterday, 01:47 PM

.paul. replied to a thread VS 2022 Open file via File Explorer with exe built in VS and retrieve filename. in Visual Basic .NET

You set the file associations in the registry...

4 replies | 114 view(s)

Yesterday, 01:26 PM

wes4dbt replied to a thread Post Race! in General Discussion / Chit Chat

Didn't you grow up in northeast? I've never got the impression hot weather was a real problem there. There's only a few spots in town that have...

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Yesterday, 01:17 PM

.paul. replied to a thread VS 2013 Add 1 to an Integer value in My.Settings in Visual Basic .NET

My.Settings.yourVariableName = My.Settings.yourVariableName +1

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Yesterday, 12:53 PM

wes4dbt replied to a thread VS 2013 Add 1 to an Integer value in My.Settings in Visual Basic .NET

Which part are you having trouble with? What have you tried? Need more information. Maybe this will help. ...

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Yesterday, 11:26 AM

CB Sales started a thread VS 2022 Open file via File Explorer with exe built in VS and retrieve filename. in Visual Basic .NET

This is my first post, and I hope it makes sense. I want to set my VB program exe as the default for some file types in Windows 10 and get the file...

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Yesterday, 10:07 AM

johnywalker replied to a thread Why did Microsoft abandon ,killed VB6? in General Developer Forum

The first home computers in the early eighties were all about home programming. There were many games also for children but it was all about home...

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Yesterday, 09:11 AM

Prodt Games started a thread VS 2013 Add 1 to an Integer value in My.Settings in Visual Basic .NET

Hello everyone, (I'm French, my lack of English requires me to use Google Translate, I apologize). I'd like to create a statistics system where,...

5 replies | 158 view(s)

Yesterday, 06:54 AM

fafalone replied to a thread I manage to give IME support to the VB6 classic ANSI window for UserControl only in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

It's dying like VB5 did when VB6 came out, because of tB :bigyello:

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Yesterday, 06:21 AM

wqweto replied to a thread I manage to give IME support to the VB6 classic ANSI window for UserControl only in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Sounds like a simple explanation which is not completely true. Blaming AI for everything is fashionable though.

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Jul 18th, 2025, 09:36 PM

flyguille replied to a thread How to make a property page have a name in the properties window like (Custom) in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

I think categorizing is automatic, I have done usercontrols with properties called "BackgroundColor2" (as OLE_COLOR) and it understand it is a color,...

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Jul 18th, 2025, 09:31 PM

flyguille replied to a thread How to make a property page have a name in the properties window like (Custom) in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

do you mean that you are doing an UserControl, and needs that some properties are grouped in a category called "Custom"?

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Jul 18th, 2025, 08:51 PM

.paul. replied to a thread [RESOLVED] Webbrowser slower than code and WebBrowser1_DocumentCompleted seems to be faster in Visual Basic .NET

You’ll find, you spend much more time arguing about what you can’t do and why you can’t do it, than if you bite the bullet and rewrite it properly...

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