Working with dates and times in visual basic techotopia. 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. Exploiting the monthcalendar control with visual basic. In fact, you can use them to either retrieve the current date and time as date values or assign new values to. The default format of the date and time in visual basic is not always acceptable. 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. Vb6 was released in 1998, and support ended in 2005 before windows 7. How do i get the computers dns name into a variable in vb6 sp6. 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. 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. Visual basic 6 vb6 was one of the easiest programming languages to learn back in the day. The ordinal number of the required weekday from 1 to 7. Numeric value of each day depends on setting of the firstdayofweek setting.
The day function returns a number between 1 and 31 that represents the day of the month. 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. This example uses the weekday function to obtain the day of the week from a specified date. An integer, between 1 and 7, representing the day of the week. 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. Boolean value that indicates if the weekday name is to be abbreviated. Weekdayname function visual basic for applications. 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. Dayofweekname, get the day of week name for any date.
Visual basic multidimensional arrays, working with strings in visual. To display both the date and time together a message box is displayed use the statement given below. Purchase and download the fully updated visual basic 2010 edition of. The weekdayname function returns the weekday name of a specified day of the week. 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. Syntax weekdaynameweekday,abbreviate,firstdayofweek parameter description. Day of the week and other day functions in vba code vba. Jac provided the vb6 documentation url in the above comment. Kind regards guoqi zheng guoqi at meetholland dot com. The following example shows how qualifying day resolves this ambiguity.
Hi, i have a query that gives me the number of the day, ei. Like weekdayname 1 will return monday true value will provide the month name abbreviated, for example. You can use day names property to find the day name based on date. Myweekday weekday mydate myweekday contains 4 because mydate represents a wednesday. Controlling the appearance of individual cells of dates vb. When developing software that displays dates, you may want to show the name of a day such as monday, tuesday, etc. The names should be shown in the users preferred language. The freevbcode site provides free visual basic code, examples, snippets. Sorry if this question was asked and answered already.
How do i specify the file name when i print the pdf from vb6. You can write a function, which will return the week day name u want to. Vb makes it easy to calculate the last day of the month. A boolean value boolean value that indicates if the month name is to be abbreviated. Functions visual basic for applications support and feedback. You can use the weekdayname function to return the name of a weekday from an input supplied weekday number.
Service pack 5 is recommended for all visual studio 6. I want to record into the activity log table of my multi user application. Usually this function is used with the weekday function. Weekdayname intweekday, blnabbreviate, firstdayofweek value from 1 to 7, monday to sunday, whose week day name need to be calculated.
It was released in 1998 and is now replaced by visual basic. The now function retrieves the date and time, while date function retrieves only date and time function retrieves only the time. The reason is that microsoft continues to include in the os the runtime distributables, a. Using format string, ddd for short day of week name, mmm for short month name. The weekdayname function the takes numeric value as a parameter and returns a week day name. For this reason, visual basic provides the format function to allow the format of the date to be controlled. The files include the fixes shipped with service pack 6 for visual basic 6. 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.
This is the snippet get number of days in a month using the dateserial function on freevbcode. Note that the weekday that is represented by each integer value depends on the value of the. Specifies whether to return the full day name or an. Returns a variant integer containing a whole number representing the day of the week. 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. This is the complete package of runtime files and redistributable libraries for running or redistributing applications written in visual basic 1. 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.
Home questions articles browse topics latest top members faq. A boolean value that indicates if the weekday name is to be abbreviated. In the above monthname function example, the first the name of the month is displayed completly. Weekdayname function weekdayname date function in visual basic. Use datepart m, dateval to obtain a month number from a date. Dayofweek this will not return thursday, but rather a enum value for the day of week.
However, vb6 apps continue to run, for the most part, up to and including windows 10. I am creating a utility in vb6 and may want to use distiller to print it to a pdf file. Vb makes it easy to calculate the last day of the month by irina medvinskaya in developer on september 3, 2002, 12. Voted best answer take a look at this blog post i wrote recently, it explains how to set the filename programmatically. Boolean value that indicates if the weekday name is to be. A number from 1 through 7 that indicates a day of the week. Visual basic for applications support and feedback. Weekdayname weekday,abbreviate,firstdayofweek required. For example, a month of 1 returns january or if abbreviate is true jan. Private function myweeknamebyval tdate as date as string. If you use the day function, you might have to qualify it with the microsoft. The weekdayname function returns the name of the weekday for the specified day. In get the current date, the datetime construct gave us information about current date and time.