Recent content by funstone

Chiph, SqueakinSweep and others Thanks for the advice to go .NET all the way now. In our case it is not possible to go .NET but business functionality changes cannot wait. There are significant .NET work in our workplace and I can only speculate the reasons for not going 100% being: 1) .NET is...

Anyone here have information whether it is feasible and desirable to start using ADO.NET from VB6 applications? My situation is that I have to work on VB6 applications which will only be retargeted for .NET a few years later. The .NET environment in our company is still maturing but there are...

I have to do new work in VB6. The company has .NET but due to various reasons it is still in pioneer stage. Unfortunately I do not know VB well, and even less in .NET. Can someone advise me whether there are links on the net that are useful to people working on new VB projects that have to go...

I am a new VB6 developer (recently transfered from mainframe area) wanting to learn VB6 functionalities that can be tolerated in a migration exercise to .NET Winforms two years down the road. A large scale commitment to .NET is not on at this moment at my worksite. I have this Code Advisor...

I would like to share (reluctantly) my XP PRO PC with people close to me, including a 14 year old who likes to surf on the net and click anything that catches his eye. I would therefore like to set up a kiosk account with following characteristics: 1) when switching from my regular admin user...

I have recently been reassigned to maintaining VB6 programs and I am finding it difficult to use existing tools (e.g. OLEView) to help with diagnostics. Of particular interest to me now is something like Object browser, but I need to examine contents of object variables (e.g. an ADO recordset)...

I like some help in listing out various simple options I have to move/convert/upgrade a VB6 application to intranet. This is intended to avoid setup problems related to thick client applications. Current application uses Crystal and TrueDB Grid, and has links within it to activate Winword or...

I am missing the windows update file, but otherwise complete Win98SE. I need update file to find a later version of Microsoft installor

Hi, I had a disaster and subsequently recovered an older version of Visual Studio/VB 6 from backup. But to my horror, that version has not got MSDE already setup on it. I went to MS site and all they have is a version of MSDE for SQL2000. I need a full version of older MSDE from somewhere...