Use weekday function to get day of week, then a case statement comparing its result to values 06 sunsat i believe theres no built in function in vb6 to get the day name, but there is a weekdayname function in vb. Weekdayname intweekday, blnabbreviate, firstdayofweek value from 1 to 7, monday to sunday, whose week day name need to be calculated. Jac provided the vb6 documentation url in the above comment. However, vb6 apps continue to run, for the most part, up to and including windows 10. Purchase and download the fully updated visual basic 2010 edition of. Net windows forms project and add one monthcalendar control to your form. Gilles so stop being evil 610k 147 147 gold badges 1247 1247 silver badges 1760 1760 bronze badges. Boolean value that indicates if the weekday name is to be abbreviated. An integer, between 1 and 7, representing the day of the week. The ordinal number of the required weekday from 1 to 7.
If you use the day function, you might have to qualify it with the microsoft. Using format string, ddd for short day of week name, mmm for short month name. How do i get the computers dns name into a variable in vb6 sp6. The following example shows how qualifying day resolves this ambiguity. Weekdayname function visual basic for applications. Use datepart m, dateval to obtain a month number from a date. This is the snippet get number of days in a month using the dateserial function on freevbcode. Visual basic multidimensional arrays, working with strings in visual. The weekdayname function returns the weekday name of a specified day of the week. A boolean value that indicates if the weekday name is to be abbreviated.
Hi, ive spent a long time looking on the net and worked out how to used visual basic in excel to remame a bunch of files, you need to have the file names in the excel spreadsheet though, and it doesnt copy the files, just replaces the names. Returns a variant integer containing a whole number representing the day of the week. The following example uses the weekday function to obtain the day of the week from a specified date, and then the weekdayname function to obtain the name of. This is the complete package of runtime files and redistributable libraries for running or redistributing applications written in visual basic 1. This example uses the weekday function to obtain the day of the week from a specified date. Sunday to determine the day of the week, think of the day specified by dayofweek as day 1, and the value returned by the function as indicating the day relative to day 1.
I have a script that does certain management tasks based on the day of the week. Weekdayname function weekdayname date function in visual basic. This is simple to achieve using either of the methods described in this tip. Since weekday is an integer, to determine the name of the day of a particular date, combine weekdayname with a call to the weekday function, as the following code fragment shows. Day of the week and other day functions in vba code vba. The weekdayname function the takes numeric value as a parameter and returns a week day name. It was released in 1998 and is now replaced by visual basic.
Private function myweeknamebyval tdate as date as string. Myweekday weekday mydate myweekday contains 4 because mydate represents a wednesday. Even though it is outdated by several years, the programs created and compiled with vb6 can still work with the latest windows operating systems which is why you can still find people attempting to install vb6 on windows 10. Youd expect that, given a date, weekdayname would return the name of that dates day. The names should be shown in the users preferred language. Controlling the appearance of individual cells of dates vb. Service pack 5 is recommended for all visual studio 6. You can name the objects in your project anything you like, but keep in mind that i stuck with the default names to make it simpler for you to follow. In fact, you can use them to either retrieve the current date and time as date values or assign new values to. I want to record into the activity log table of my multi user application.
Visual basic 6 vb6 was one of the easiest programming languages to learn back in the day. Get number of days in a month using the dateserial function. The weekdayname function returns the name of the weekday for the specified day. Visual basic for applications support and feedback. Vb6 was released in 1998, and support ended in 2005 before windows 7. The default format of the date and time in visual basic is not always acceptable. How do i specify the file name when i print the pdf from vb6. To determine the name of the day of a particular date, combine weekdayname with a call to the weekday function, as the following code fragment shows. Numeric value of each day depends on setting of the firstdayofweek setting. Like weekdayname 1 will return monday true value will provide the month name abbreviated, for example. The freevbcode site provides free visual basic code, examples, snippets. I am creating a utility in vb6 and may want to use distiller to print it to a pdf file.
You can write a function, which will return the week day name u want to. Example of source code for date, time and business day math, and its formatting and commenting. Date and time calculations for adding and subtracting dates, day of week or month, quarters, iso week numbers, datetime parts, translating time to words, etc. Sorry if this question was asked and answered already. Vb makes it easy to calculate the last day of the month.
It is a creation of microsoft, which is designed to provide a graphical user interface gui that allows the developer to drag and drop objects into the. In get the current date, the datetime construct gave us information about current date and time. The format function is actually a diverse function that can be used to format various types of data such as string, monetary values and numbers. When developing software that displays dates, you may want to show the name of a day such as monday, tuesday, etc. Exploiting the monthcalendar control with visual basic. The systems current date and time can be retrieved using the now, date and time functions in visual basic. Vb makes it easy to calculate the last day of the month by irina medvinskaya in developer on september 3, 2002, 12. Working with dates and times in visual basic techotopia. A boolean value boolean value that indicates if the month name is to be abbreviated. I have to fetch today day name like wednesday i hv written this code but it shows tuesday only ysterday i had written this code it shows the same days name event today dim d as date new date dim day as integer day d.
For example, a month of 1 returns january or if abbreviate is true jan. Boolean value that indicates if the weekday name is to be. The now function retrieves the date and time, while date function retrieves only date and time function retrieves only the time. Syntax weekdaynameweekday,abbreviate,firstdayofweek parameter description. Usually this function is used with the weekday function. Windows 2000, windows server 2003, windows xp microsoft data access components mdac 2. Hi, i have a query that gives me the number of the day, ei. Specifies whether to return the full day name or an. Weekdayname weekday,abbreviate,firstdayofweek required. Then, for example, if the return value of weekday is 2, this specifies the day following dayofweek. Note that the weekday that is represented by each integer value depends on the value of the.
Dayofweek this will not return thursday, but rather a enum value for the day of week. Functions visual basic for applications support and feedback. Daynumber, dayname weekday d, dayform, language returns the name for the day of the week in the specified format and in the language of the. Dayofweekname, get the day of week name for any date. You can use day names property to find the day name based on date. A number from 1 through 7 that indicates a day of the week. In the above monthname function example, the first the name of the month is displayed completly. The files include the fixes shipped with service pack 6 for visual basic 6. Voted best answer take a look at this blog post i wrote recently, it explains how to set the filename programmatically.
For this reason, visual basic provides the format function to allow the format of the date to be controlled. To display both the date and time together a message box is displayed use the statement given below. Home questions articles browse topics latest top members faq. Net framework makes it easy to determine the ordinal day of the week for a particular date, and to display the localized weekday name for a particular date. The reason is that microsoft continues to include in the os the runtime distributables, a. You can use the weekdayname function to return the name of a weekday from an input supplied weekday number. The day function returns a number between 1 and 31 that represents the day of the month. Kind regards guoqi zheng guoqi at meetholland dot com.
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