VB Forum / Enterprise Development / July 2003

Can any one help me in opening the COM port using VB. I am getting data from
Power analyser using analog to digital converter (A-D converter). Currently
I am using Qbasic program to get input through COM port. Is it possible to
do the same in VB.

I am extremely confused.....
I do NOT want to use ASP.
I just need to do this.....
1. Create an RPT File (done This is easy)

I have come across an interesting problem and wonder if anyone else
has seen this. I have a VB 6 program that among other things, opens an
Excel Spreadsheet which has a built in Macro that upon opening the
worksheet will import a fixed width text file and convert the data

Has anyone used before the printer object?
I am just trying to print a couple of lines but the printer only prints this
error:
   PCL XL error

I've posted this problem to the InstallShield forums with no luck, so am now
trying these forums in the hope that someone may be able to help...apologies
if you think this isn't strictly Microsoft and therefore shouldn't be
here....

I have been using the Environ function in the following
manner:
Text1.Text = Environ("UserName")
This works fine.

I am developing in VB6 enterprice on an XP (home edition) machine.
In a class, I want to declare a reference to the context object that
is created by MTS. As I understand it, the declaration would look like
this:

Hi guys...
Here's a quick query...
I have almost finished making my first project in vb...
But I am confused...as to how should i compile the entire project and make a

I am using VB 6 i have a form that is minimized when i
issue the command form1.windowstate = vbmaximized a new
form is loaded and i end up with two copies of the same
form . i only wnat to maximize the form i have already

Is there any way to integrate flash with VB(application). If this can
be done then please provide me with some examples.
Immediate help will be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

If a software company says that they have an app which calls a COM object
written in VB, does that mean it's an ActiveX DLL? What exactly are ActiveX
EXE's used for (or are they used?)?  And, finally, do people really consider
ActiveX Controls COM objects?

I have a vb app that creates a bat file, then runs it. In the bat file I get
file names and paths from a database. The bat file wil only fire up an exe
if there is no space in the name so
c:\program files\sol.exe

Hi...
I have one exe and it is refereing some dll.  I am making again exe
and replacing on to client place.  It is loosing reference to those
dlls.  Is there any way to solve this problem?

Anyone know if there's a programmatic way of changing the 'Thread Pool'
setting on an ActiveX EXE component at run-time, i.e. configuring the size
of the thread pool based on circumstances before the component is
marshalled.

I have a huge VB application and i need to make it faster
the application performs a lot of calulations and database interaction. I
have some secess the DOevents command  how can i make my forms load faster