Visual Studio

regarding serialport programming
hi this is amanath doing b.tech mechatronics.can any one help me how to program a serial port in visualbasic. i was trying this for the past 1 month but i couldn't get enough material & im not able to finish the job.so please help me. ... 17 Mar 2006 09:32

GBIP via VB6
I have a project that does it. The code which acces a HP 8754A Network Analyser, uses some lib files from NI. I prefer not to post the code, but will engage in a email exchance. ... 16 Mar 2006 11:10

How to communicate throught GPIB
Hi all, I would like to write a code in VB6 to communicate with the test instrument throught GPIB. I can talk to instrument by NI. How can I talk with VB6 ? Any step by step instruction for dummy or sample code must be appriciated. Thanks ... 16 Mar 2006 10:08

String manipulation
I'm just starting out with Visual Basic .Net, and I'm have trouble using the help files to learn how to do simple string manipulations (the help files seem to cover commands that do everything BUT what I want). Can someone point me to a good tutorials website, or give examples of how to do the following? Sa... 15 Mar 2006 21:40

Forcing a form to perfectly fit its background image
Any suggestions appreciated on this one... I'm using VB6 and at run-time I assign an image file as the background of my main form using form1.picture=<filename>. What's the best way to force the size of the form to exactly match the size of the picture, assuming the picture is always smaller than the screen. ... 4 Mar 2006 15:21

Number of columns in an ADO recordset
Hi, Pardon me for a newbie question. I access first column of an ADO recordset object by calling rs(0), the second column - by rs(1), and so on... This works well as long as I now number of columns in the recordset. A problem may occur when I process data brought from an SQL source with "select * ..." query... 3 Mar 2006 10:49

add WAV file
I found a disk with several .WAV files and wondered about using them. I have not found any information in my VB6 texts regarding code. How would I code a file called TheEnd.WAV in the code below? How do I give the user the option to shut off/turn on all WAV files that are in the program assuming I have several... 24 Feb 2006 23:16

Maximize Issues
I have a form that starts in Maximized state. In the Form_Resize(), I draw a statusbox using API functions at the very bottom. This works great. If I disable the MaxButton for the form (design time) and run the program, the statusbox will not show. With Maxbutton enabled, it shows up fine. I don't understa... 25 Feb 2006 05:56

MSFlexGrid control
In VB6 I have a MSFlexGrid displaying records from a database using both vertical and horizontal scroll bars to show all details. Each record row is quite wide, about 26000 twips or almost three times the width of the grid on the screen. If I manually scroll to the right to see the data at the far right of a re... 26 Feb 2006 14:24

VB6
Do somebody knows how to write exponent in a label or textbox ex: a? (of course exponent greater than 2) Thank you for your help yvon.pacheu(a)wanadoo.fr ... 14 Feb 2006 22:47