I have a brand new computer which was freshly loaded with Visual Basic 6.0. I have copied all the code from the previous computer to this new one.

But loading a project produced the following...

What value type is Global in Visual Basic?

If I have something defined like this:

Global ErrorStatus&

And I have know what data type this is. I have heard that the compiler sets the data...

I want to have a nested scrollable area (with buttons and controls) inside a dialog. Is this easy to do in Visual Basic?

I changed the function type from Private to Public and it works.

This has to be a simple question to answer. And I know how to do this in C++ but I don't know how it is done in Visual Basic. So I am not completely lost. It is just that Visual Basic is pretty...

In C you can declare a function like this
int average( int first, ... )
Where the ellipses denote a variable argument list.
If I have a function like that in a c++ DLL and I want to link a Visual...

I need suggestions for creating a Help system for a Visual Basic Program.

We have a requirement to provide "on-line help" to our Visual Basic program. What I believe they mean is the sort of Help...

Can programs written in Visual Basic be designed such that they can read and write Unicode Files?

How do I declare a string and pass it from a Visual Basic GUI to a C++ DLL?

Now I am debugging successfully. I can debug either on the Visual Basic end or I can debug on the C++ side by using the...

Visual Basic and C++ and Debug and DLLs

Here is the problem I am having now. I have a C++ DLL that seems to work just fine. It has been tested with function calls from a executable written in...

How do I save my break points in VIsual Basic? I am experiencing the frusturation of setting the break points and then, if the program crashes and VB shuts down, the break points are lost.

I...

'Here is my declarations:

Declare Function atxml_ReadCmds Lib "AtXmlApi_Dbg.dll" (ByVal resourceName As String, _
ByVal ReadBuffer As...

Is anyone up to a challenge?

I have some problems linking to a C++ DLL with a VB program.

The program has this error:

Run-time error '13'
Type mismatch

It crashes at a line of code that...

In Visual Basic 6 I have written a program to read and write to a file. It works fine. Now I have to do the same for binary data since the information I write to the file has end-of-line and return...

Is it difficult to write to the system clipboard?

Also, once that is done, how about launching Notpad from VB and dynamically doing a paste (I guess via DDE) from VB code?

I have seen some sample code in VB which shows some methods of opening and reading from a file.

But what about the GUI side of things? When the user runs the program, I want him/her to be able to...

How does one create the process where a user can open (select) a file to read from? In C++ there are already classes to inherit from. Do I have to make a file open form from scratch in VB?