VB Forum / General / February 2005

I must first thank those that have explained what the above means in
previous postings.

My problem was when transferring VB6 [ Student Ed ] progs. using OFFICE 97
from a WIN 98 machine to a WIN XP2 machine [ and using the same software ] I
was unable to use such statements as:-

Set wbook1  =  Excel1.Workbook.Open ( "c:\   etc.......") which gave an '
Open method  object  failure ' message. This is because I am unable to
initiate  ' Early Binding ' with the compiler.

I have now tried   Public excel1 as Object,  Public wbook1 as Object, Public
xx as String

then  Set excel1  =  CreateObject (  "  excel.Application ")
       Set wbook1 =  GetObject (xx, "excel.Application")
                     xx  =  "c:\....... etc.           "

which so far seems to work!  [ This initiates  LATE binding ].

I have [ at the moment ] one remaining problem -  I need to use Internet
Transfer Controls, specifically  the Active X object  Inet.  I now
understand [ which I half suspected ] that the Student edition of VB6 cannot
use this object - I therefore need some advice on what to buy to replace VB6
that will work with Office 97, work with WIN 98 and XP2 and allow me to use
Inet  [ or its equivalent ].

I have many large VB6 programs and I am not a programmer. I have a limited
budget.

Any advice is most welcome.