Recent content by ghobbes98

I wanted an appliction to run periodically that goes and checks to see if an exe is still running. If the exe is not running that I want to be alerted to the exe falling over. Any suggestions of something that would return back true or false if given an exe name whether it was running or not

I was wondering how to get say the first 10 entries from a table? There are no critera to search by. So just return the rows. is it possible to do some select statement Sorry if this is a very basic question but relatively new to this Hobbes

I want to send an e-mail from a vb application. Currently I am using the following code that was given to me Set olapp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application") Set oitem = olapp.CreateItem(0) With oitem .To = strRecipients .body = strContent .Send End With however I do not...

I am trying to create a dictionary object with the following code Set d = CreateObject(Scripting.Dictionary) but I get method or date member not defined however I have microsoft scripting runtime referenced which should allow me to create a dictionary object. scrrun version that I have is...

thanks thats a great help Hobbes

I was wondering if there is anything in vb that can do this for me. I have to unescape a string that is being put into a database from somebody using jscript. I have tried looking up the help in vb documentation to no avail. Any suggestions would be great Thanks Hobbes "you can't outrun...

I have a store procedure at the moment where I pass in a date and if the value in field is equal to this date I want to pass it back to the user. However I only pass in the date as "24/6/2002" but the date in the record might be "24/6/2002 10.37.30" so it never returns back...

I was just wondering if it is posible to automate this process. I was to use this visual studio tool to package a program and I was wondering if anybody has tried to automate this apart from having to click through. I already know all the options that I want to choose. It is so that it can...

I am using the mschart and I was wondering if there is any way of saving the chart that is produced out of this without having to do a screen grab. I want to do a number of different charts to describe the situation of a system Any help would be great Thanks Hobbes

Does anybody know of any sort of calendar chooser that is available? I just want to let the user enter a date and instead of getting them to enter the dates and then having to validate the dates I was wondering if there was any handy little add ins that pop up let the user flick through a...

excellent very helpful mate thanks Hobbes

is there any simple way of getting a date 30 days previous to a given date. so if i get given a date 30/4/2002 I want to get 31/3/2002. Thanks for any help hobbes

I knew that it was something like that and thanks for the answer however I want to use this more then just his once so I was looking to learn how to use it fully

I am looking to use a datagrid to view some info from a database but I want to filter the information but do not know how to do this as the book that I am using is so helpful it does not quite cover something as practical as this Does anybody know of any good tutorials that they have used for...

I have created a database and when I try and connect to it I get a type mismatch error Here is the very simple code that I am using Private dbworkspace As Workspace Private dbDatabase As Database Private dbTable As Recordset Private dbName As Field Private dbNumber As Field Set dbworkspace =...