WTF? None of this was necessary and only serves to stir up more trouble.
If you want to amuse yourself in this fashion, put it in
microsoft.public.test where it can be appropriately ignored. We need *less*
trolls, not more.

"Twayne" devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:AK7Sj.3792$lc6.3460@trnddc04...
|
|
| | fol- lowing:>
|
| At least 9 repetitions of:
| ...own MVPs to engage in such outrageous long term trolling activities
| in one
| of their own public newsgroups, such as the activity that the person who
| purports to be Bill McCarthy has engaged in on the
| microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion group for many months. If this
| man...
|
| James R is just a troll. Henceforth he is on my
| troll list and I shall not be replying to any of his posts
|
| How did that apostophe get in there? Who put that there? It wasn't there
| when I posted the message
|
| I really can't believe that the Yanks can't translate stuff into
| English. I
| mean, how difficult can it possibly be to produce an English verion of
| Windows, especially when you are charging twice the price for it! It
| can't
| be that difficult, can it?
|
| Tomartos, Tomaytos, Patartos, Potaytos
|
| Take it whichever way you want. I actually meant it in a good way. A
| sort of
| half joke really. But if you want to take offence then please feel free
| to
| do so.
|
| Sheesh! I though you Yanks believed in democracy?
|
| Perhaps you should get a job with them, maybe as some sort of public
| relations brown noser?
|
| Tough. They can do whatever they wish. It doesn't bother me, and it
| really
| shouldn't bother anyone else. there are plenty of other places to go.
| I'm
| not going to suck up to Micro$oft just because they are holding a gun
| against my head, as you appear to think they are doing.
|
| If you're saying sorry then presumably you think you have done something
| to
| apologise for. In that case, why did you do it? You cannot have been
| truly
| sorry or you would not have clicked the send button (because you must
| have
| inserted the fake "sorry" message before you did so). Perhaps you are
| not
| really sorry at all
|
| Or have I misunderstood your question?
|
| What do you mean by "access one of my data files"? Do you mean when you
| are
| trying to read one, or when you are trying to write one, or both? What
| sort
| of files are they? What methods are you using to perform the read or
| write?
| Are they on your local machine? Which folder are they in? Can you post
| an
| example of the actual code you are you using to access them? Details,
|
| Well that's weird? I didn't know there were 17 months in a year
|
| Pardon? Upgrade? Do you mean "port"?
|
| Sometimes it will be necessary of course, and I'm not
| "knocking" anybody who does it.
|
| Well I certainly agree with that.
|
| In fact, I am rather puzzled by the logic of the American method.
| Specifying
| the three components in "lo to hi" order (as in 19 February 2008) or in
| "hi
| to lo" order (as in 2008 February 19) make sense to me, but jumbling
| them up
| without respect for their weight (as in the American February 19 2008)
| doesn't make much sense to me, no sense at all
|
| Don't be "cocky", Mike. I think you know exactly what the OP was after,
| as I
| did myself when I wrote my response. I do agree with Jeff when he says
| that
|
| I hope you
| don't think that I am in some way defficient because of it?
|
| I was actually alive then, Tom. I know what was going on. Visual Basic
| was a
| very popular language, and people sought it out and purchased it. Dotnet
| is
| not popular. People generally do not want it. How many people do you
| think
|
| Where do you get all that stuff from? Is it documented somewhere?
|
| I tells me that VB6 was extremely popular and that VB.Net is nowhere
| near as
| popular. VB6 sold in its millions, even as a stand alone product. If
| VB.Net
| was a standalone product they'd have to throw copies of it into packets
| of
| cornflakes to get rid of it!
|
| Yep. I use VB6. It is the last real version of Visual Basic. That 2008
| thing
| is an imposter, and VB6 code will not work in it
|
| So your phrase, "I think you may be mistaken even in that", if you are
| indeed correct in that assumption, actually makes my case stronger,
| rather
| than weaker
|
| Yep. And of course this is just the beginning. MS are already in the
| business of renting applications (Office 2007 for example). Pretty soon
| they'll be moving into renting the OS itself.
|
| In fact you have responded to something I did not say and have failed to
| respond to something I did say. Weird
|
| but I have a feeling that if anythign SP1 will
| actually make that problem worse
|
| It's exciting! Keeps you on your toes! The VB IDE hates it, but compiled
| apps love it! Where would we be today if the world explorers of old
| stayed
| safely at home? America would still be in the hands of Gerinomo and his
| brood (mind you, perhaps that would be a good thing!) and Captain Morgan
| would never have invented his delicious rum! Go for it. Be one of life's
| explorers!
|
| if the OP applies a fair amount of though to it then he should easily be
| able to write his own code top perform the task, and many other similar
| tasks.
|
| So why haven't you checked it? The content of the actual file is the
| very
| first thing I would advise you to check, as stated in my previous
| response
| in this thread and also as stated in the responses of others.
|
| I understood what he meant, and I provided him with the answer he
| required.
|
| Hang on a minute . . . you've spent at least six months trying to
| persuade
| us that VB.Net and VB6 are very similar and that one is a natural
| upgrade
| from the other . . . simply "the next version" . . . and now you're
| telling
| us that they're so different that there's no comparison?
|
| So what's your problem? Printing out the properties window is not going
| to
| help you very much.
|
| suggest that you carefully examine your project and rewrite it in a way
| that
| does not require it to have such a huge number of controls.
|
| People posting VB.Net questions here in a VB6 group might just as well
| post
| their questions in a Delphi group. The answers in both cases will be
| just as
| helpful, or just as unhelpful
|
| You are in the wrong newsgroup. This group deals with Visual Basic. The
| application you are using is NOT Visual Basic. It is an imposter. The
| "VB"
| or "Visual Basic" you might find in its name is a lie. You need to post
| your
| question to a group that deals specifically with the imposter.
|
| That's just the UI. Lots of RAD tools work in the same way. But the code
| is
| different, just as Delphi code is different. VB6 code will NOT work in
| VB.Net. End of story.
|
| Please elucidate.
|
| VB.Net is NOT the successor to Visual Basic (VB6). VB.Net is a different
|
| You've obviously been fooled, but we haven't.
|
| None of this says anything
| about the actual merits of VB.Net of course. In many ways it may be
| better
| than VB6
|
| neither
| shall I accept a free copy of VB.Net from simply because they have now
| realised how difficult it is to sell!
|
| No it's not. VB.Net is a new and completely different language. It is
| NOT
| the successor to anything.
|
| It may be VB.Net, but it is far more likely not to be because I
| do not trust Micro$oft, so I will probably choose a RAD tool produced by
|
| No. Certainly not. Why should I? It is NOT the successor to VB6. It is a
|
| How can you be so totally taken in by
| Micro$haft! Have you no mind of your own?
|
| That's a totally meaningless statement! What do you mean by "this".
| Exactly
| what is "the way it is"? Talk sense man! Speak English!
|
| There is no location that specifies this group does not support .Net
| discussion, and neither is there a location that specifies it does not
|
| Micro$oft have told you a lie. Do you really think it is
| right to have a single newsgroup dealing with two different languages,
| in
| which answers in one case will not work in the other? Are you totally
| stupid?
|
| You are being absolutely silly James. VB gradually progressed through
| its
|
| It is a different language. End of
| story.
|
| Wow James, you've got quite an anger problem there.
|
| You seem to glibly let silly statements fall off your
| tongue without checking their validity (just as you didn't check the
| validity of your statement when you made your comments about VB.Net and
| VB6).
|
| The last and final version of Visual
| Basic was VB6.
|
| . . . which Mike?
|
| VB.Net is a DIFFERENT
| LANGUAGE. End of story.
|
| Personally I would use the word "usually" rather than "never".
|
| You really are cracking up now Michael. You are trying to tell me that
| different is not the same as not the same! You need medical assistance
|
| You never
| needed to remember somebody else's rules, you just made up your own
| rules as
| you went along
|
| I also have a habit of saying "step to one side" instead of the
| traditional "excuse me" when I want someone to get out of my way.
|
| Coming back to your original question,
|
| You'll be able to use VB6 fine in Vista.
|
| I think Vista is going to have a very limited lifespan,
| perhaps less than another year according to current rumours regarding
| the
| release date of Windows 7, and I don't hold out many hopes of VB6
| running
| properly in its successor
|
| I'm afraid I can't help you with getting the Recordset into a String for
| printing because I never use databases
|
| You're in the wrong group. This is a Visual Basic group. The application
| you
| are using is not Visual Basic. It is an imposter.
|
| You are not making it easy for us by leaving all that database Rst stuff
| in
| your code (which of course will just produce an error when we paste it
| into
| a new VB app for testing) and you are making it even harder by leaving
| in
| stuff you have commented out.
|
| That's a rather sweeping statement, and quite untrue.
|
| It might have been wise of you to tell us
| that little piece of very important information in the first place! By
| the
| way, do you mean
|
| By the way, I my previous message I posted three or four blocks of code
| and
| I asked you create a new VB project completely separate from your
| existing
| project and to paste the code into the new project and run it and report
| the
| results. Have you done that yet? If so, what are the results?
|
| Okay. So answer the other questions I have asked you. There are about
| five
| outstanding answers I'm waiting for . . .
|
| vvyou still haven't
| answered by previous five questions and you have not yet sent me the
| scans
| you promised) but it is something you should know about anyway
|
| As far as I am concerned it is Micro$oft that is at the end of its
| lifetime.
| They won't get another penny of my money!
|
| vI think I'll start posting lots of Delphi questions in the dotnet
| groups.
| See if they get answered there?
|
| Now you're just being picky
|
| Your question doesn't make sense!
|
| And Michael C, who'll argue that it is a bulb if you called it a lamp,
| or a
| lamp if you called it a bulb.
|
| I use VB6 for all my projects,
|
| statements you have just made up for this post! Stop making things up
| Michael, or you'll turn into one of those grinning fairground gypsies
| yourself.
|
| No idea. You are in a Visual Basic newsgroup and vb.net has got nothing
| to
| do with Visual Basic.
|
| You seem to be losing control, Billy boy, and misreading posts again
|
| Perhaps your blind allegiance to
| your masters is clouding the issue for you?
|
| No need for excuses. We were all new to Visual Basic once.
|
| Yes, but it is NOT Visual Basic!
|
| I got so carried away with the simplified description
| that I completely forgot to mention that little point
|
| Why are you jumping from VB3 straight to VB6? Nobody was actually
| required
| to do that.
|
| It is very different. It won't run a single one of my VB6 projects.
|
| It's the VB part that bothers me. It is a lie in both cases.
|
| So are you telling me that the API functions do not work in vb.net?
|
| So, as an "off the top of my head" example, in what way does the
| DrawTextEx API work better in vb.net than it does in VB6?
|
| You really are stupid, Billy boy. You're wearing your Micro$haft
| blinkers
| too tightly.
|
| You are therefore on my killfile with immediate effect
|
| You're in the wrong newsgroup.
|
| By the way Michael C, since I've finished playing your little game I
| might
| as well let you know that you too are on my killfile as well as your
| alter
| ego Bill McCarthy, but this time you're staying on it.
|
| I don't remember asking for something that compiled on the target
| machine
| instead of on my own?
|
| Okay. But now you've made me even more suspicious. You're being nice to
| me
|
| I'll admit to being old, as you will be yourself one day if you're
| lucky,
| but the other two are simply not true. You're a tit head.
|
| To be perfectly honest I don't know a great deal about the working of
| the
|
| it didn't annoy him very much actually. He took it in good spirit and
| gave
| as good as he got. But it certainly seems to have annoyed you a great
| deal,
| so it hasn't all been a waste of time
|
| I would tell them to shove it where the sun doesn't shine! I wouldn't
| let
| any of those inbred idiots anywhere near me with a sword!
|
| No it doesn't. It means nothing at all to me. The entire Royal Family
| are
| just a bunch if inbred idiots.
|
| apparently. I shall stop when you stop, but I shall wait for you to stop
| first
|
| Yes. You end your puerile crap first and then I shall cease responding
| to
| it.
|
| Of course it is my prerogative, and I am correct. In fact the very
| message
| that I am replying to now, your own message, is an instance of it. You
| are a
| spammer, Sir. But, more importantly, you are a lying spammer. You are a
| cad,
| Sir. A disgusting cad who fails to admit his own dastardly deeds. I can
| smell something very fishy about you, Sir.
|
| So do I. But somehow I am not convinced. I think you will continue your
| trolling to the end. Desist, Sir. Stop it this instant! You are a liar
| and
| an idiot, and a troll to boot!
|
|
|
| > Hoping this is the end
|
| Clearly, it's up to you. How fervent is the hope?
|
|
|