VB6 Help

[Hightower]

I have an application which is failing, and it appears to be this line of code:

dataCustomers.Recordset.MoveFirst = "SELECT * FROM tbl_customers,tbl_join WHERE tbl_join.isbn = '" & txtBook(0).Text & "' AND tbl_join.membership_number = tbl_customers.membership_number"

This is error I am getting:

Compile error:

Expected Function or variable

Any ideas?

[powdarrmonkey]

MoveFirst is a function, not a variable, so you can't assign things to it.

[Hightower]

MoveFirst is a function, not a variable, so you can't assign things to it.

So how would I go about opening the first recordset that matches that SQL?

Still newish to VB6

[powdarrmonkey]

You need to use OpenRecordset to open the table...

Dim dbMyDB As Database
Dim rsMyRS As RecordSet

Set dbMyDB = OpenDatabase("MyDatabase.mdb")
Set rsMyRS = dbMyDB.OpenRecordSet("MyTable", dbOpenDynaset)

...and then do some operation, like FindFirst, Filter, MoveNext, etc. Think of a recordset like a row of shelves that you can walk around.

(I'd also stop using VB6 and use .Net )

[Hightower]

You need to use OpenRecordset to open the table...

Dim dbMyDB As Database
Dim rsMyRS As RecordSet

Set dbMyDB = OpenDatabase("MyDatabase.mdb")
Set rsMyRS = dbMyDB.OpenRecordSet("MyTable", dbOpenDynaset)

...and then do some operation, like FindFirst, Filter, MoveNext, etc. Think of a recordset like a row of shelves that you can walk around.

(I'd also stop using VB6 and use .Net )

I can't stop using it - it's for Uni!

Also, I've done one that way (as you have shown above), but I also have to do one the other way which is what I'm looking for. The other way as in using a data object to open the database and table.

It needs to be something like

dataObj.RecordSet.Open the first record that matches SQL

Thanks

[Hightower]

Just for further info I already have:

Set rs = db.OpenRecordset("SELECT * FROM tbl_books,tbl_join WHERE tbl_join.membership_number = '" & txtCustomer(0).Text & "' AND tbl_join.isbn = tbl_books.isbn", dbOpenDynaset)
    rs.MoveFirst

But I also need to be able to demostrate the other way described above.

[SYNACK]

I can't stop using it - it's for Uni!

Off topic but what Uni are you going to and what course is this for? I find it extremely difficult to figure out the relivance of teaching VB6 at a Uni in 2009 in any other course other than the history of computing.

[Hightower]

Off topic but what Uni are you going to and what course is this for? I find it extremely difficult to figure out the relivance of teaching VB6 at a Uni in 2009 in any other course other than the history of computing.

It's a HNC/HND/Degree 5 year part time course. I know VB6 is dated and shouldn't be used, but the relevance is (according to lecturer) "being taught how to do things the right way".

Apparantly the skills we learn in this topic can then be transferred to any visual programming style such as VB.net

I'm happy with it - really enjoying it, and I don't doubt his teaching methods.

[powdarrmonkey]

VB6 <snip> is (according to lecturer) "being taught how to do things the right way".

o_O


It's true that learning VB6 will give you skills to transfer, but only really within other Basic languages. It's a very poor language gramatically, and it teaches nothing about typing, memory management, objects, etc, etc.... but then, if you're just starting out it's quite a satisfying language provided you go on to learn those skills later, which I hope you will do.