I am trying to convert a piece of vb6 code to vb .net 2003 and I get following error: "The referenced components MSComm CommonDialog are missing design time licenses." I have been able to find suggestions on how to solve this problem if you are using vb6, however what do you do if you're tryin...more >>

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I have some troubles trying to implement an interface in .NET based on an interface defined in a VB6 component. The troubling property in the VB6 interface is: ---------------- Property Get Fields(ByVal varKey As Variant, Optional ByVal lngRow As Long) As Variant End Property Property L...more >>

what is the equivalent to type in .net 2005?...more >>

I have an vb6 ActiveX exe that is used by a couple of programs to receive request to ftp files to a server. It is set to multi-use with thread pool set to one. Each independent program creates an instance of the object and pass requests to this server. It queues them up and then ftp's the...more >>

when trrying to upgrade a VB6 project (about 40 forms) to VB2005 I get the error:- "Unexpected exception occurred during upgrade wizard execution: Retriveing the COM class factory for the component with CLSID {...the class id...} failed due to the following error: 80070005" if i try upgr...more >>

Hi everyone I'm migrating an app from VB6 to VB .NET and am having a problem with accessing a COM object. The following code works fine in VB6: Dim objObject As COM_login Set objObject = New COM_login strUsername = objObject.RetrieveUser("hashstring") strPassword = objObject.Retriev...more >>

This really p---es me off. I installed VB6 after installing 2005 pro I make a lot of changes in my VB6 app and run(compile) with Save. If I have a syntax error it shows it to me and I correct and again Run with Save. But if there is an error, and after my error handler displays the message, ...more >>

I am upgrading a vb6 program to vs.net 2005. I have found a difference in the operation of the "split function". Example code: Dim result() as string Dim source as string source = "" result = split(source, ",") msgbox ubound(result) in vb6 this returns -1, in vs2005 and vs2003 it retur...more >>

Hoi, Some advice about VS2005 needed I have a major project written in VB6 where all database interactions are nicely combined in one ClassModule witch gave me the opportunity to work with the Connection.Execute method. The ClassInitialise makes the connection and from then all works like a ...more >>

I am getting the subject failure after having upgraded to VB.NET 2003 from VB98. During startup, the splash form shows and the login form shows. After the login completes, the splash and login forms are closed and the main application form is Show()'d. The Closed(...) event for both the spl...more >>

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 [i]end-of-line[/i] and [i]return[/i] characters. For instance, when I write to the file, the data looks like this: "...more >>

How can I display only current procedure in VB.Net 2005, like Vb-6, I mean Procedure View and full Module View in VB-6 ? Best Regards, Luqman ...more >>