VB Forum / Enterprise Development / March 2005

When I was using Advanced Basic and Turbo Basic, ASCII codes 179 to 218
contained box drawing characters. VB6 standard ASCII codes do not have these
characters. Is there any way of accessing and using these characters?

Hi,
I'm working with VB 6.0. I'm using RegSetValueEx and RegQueryValueEx to read
and write values to the registry. I'm using those ones because I need to save
those values in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE so I can't use "savesettings".

Hola People,
I have written a VB6 application that populates cells in an excel
document with text. The user of the VB6 application selects which
language the text should be in. I have created a satellite DLL for each

I got 2 library files (*.lib) and a header file which is written by ANSI C
from 3rd party vender. Can I call them from VB? If yes, how can I do that?
Kenneth

This may be a dumb question, but here goes.
Can one create a form Dynamically (i.e. during run time) from an ActiveX
DLL? I would like to create a form and add a control (which may be aa text
box, radio button, timer control etc) during run time.

I'm using AzMan (Authorization Manager) from a VB 6.0 application.
Everything works fine, but I can't use the method
"AzApplication.InitializeClientContextFromToken". When I try to use this
method without passing any token (in order to get the current token) I

I'm looking for the visual basic version of LCS (longest common
substring) or a similar Diff algoritm/DLL.

In VB6, is it possible to change the encoding to Unicode and the subsets, or
am I restricted to ASCII? If possible to do I switch back and forth? Any help
would be appreciated?

I am having DLL hell problem in the W2k box.  Would you guys give me a
pointer please?
I have many apps using the same dlls.  I am installing the DLLs to the
windows system folder.  One of the Dlls doesn't work well with W2k.  So, my

how to write an updatable code without unstalling the application and re
installin it.
can you advice
hud

I have not programmed with VB6 for several years.  I use to run VB6 on a
computer running Win 98.  Now, when I want  to reinstall my VB6 program on a
computer running Win XP I receive an error message and it will not let me
proceed.  Is there a fix for this problem?

I think I will post this here.  The other newsgroup is a mess.
After trading in my BMW for a Kia to buy RoboHelp, I have been working days
and nights to have my help file done.  I end up using MS Paint Brush to do
all the screenshots for the help file.  I basically run my vb ...

I have a main form (frmMain) that has the KeyPreview set to true.
i use True grid control on that form. Th Grid gets the Keydown event NOT the
form, why would
that happen?

I am trying to follow this article to create an IIS application:
http://www.microsoft.com/mind/0499/webclass/webclass.asp
however, "IIS Application" doesn't appear among the choices when I'm
trying to create a new project in VB.  All I have is:

I've goto a small problem. I've got an app that runs on two computers. One
of these computers has the Windows XP style Theme (green Start button,
rounded form corners) the other Windows Classic Theme (Gray start button,
sharp window corners).