VB Forum / Enterprise Development / June 2005

I need make a Installer for my application.
I used P&DW (no good). Now i use Visual Studio Installer 1.1 for make
installers!!!!
But i need a good tool for my new applications in VB6???

Do you guy know how to prevent Outlook to post my IP address when posting to
a Newsgroup?
Many of the posts from MVP has no IP address attached.

Hi to all. I have the following code in a VB app:
**** CODE SNIPETT START
Private Sub PostFile(strServer As String, strLocalFile As String, strURL As
String, Optional strUser As String, Optional strPass As String)

Would you guys teach me how to estimate how long for a process to finish
please?
Let's say I have a function that takes some times to finish whatever it is
doing.

How can I resize Controls on a VB form, when the user change the display
colour settings.
For example:
I developed a VB Form with a Grid of 10 columns, my laptop display is

Hi all.  I have an app written in vb 6 that has been tested on win 98,
win 2k, win xp home, win xp pro.  The app works fine on all of these
operating systems.  However, the app has trouble on windows server
family operating systems.  Specifically Win 2k server and windows

I have merged two projects into one project group, now how can I access
form1 of project 2 from project1 ?
I tried following but could not succeed.
project2.form1.show

Created a DLL with a Class and one Form.
There are multiple instances of this one Form loaded as needed.
LOADing multiple forms not available - only for Controls I think.
Array of Forms using Redim Preserve seems to work however the Form cannot be

Sir we have a problem with pound character.
We are using MSXML 8.0.7002.0 (Windows XP) when it loads the xml it throws
error invalid character.
If we have encoding="ISO-8859-1" it works fine.

Sir we have a problem with pound character.
We are using MSXML 8.0.7002.0 (Windows XP) when it loads the xml it throws
error invalid character.
If we have encoding="ISO-8859-1" it works fine.

Is there any information or examples for working with .reg files
(Registration Entries).
Regards,
Robert

I have images in an image list, which provides the icons for my toolbar.
But some images seem to have backgrounds, and others don't. e.g. some icons
have a black square around them which I don't want.
Is there a way of configuring the image list so that some default background

Are there any shortcuts or tricks when working with registry in VB. In
particular with Hkey_users -> S-1-5-…… for the current user is there anyway
to reference the current logged in user or do we have to specify the entire
userID?

I want to use shell function to paly an exe file which is a flas exe file.
but when I use the following statement
 shell "c"\new.exe",vbnormal
it did really run . But with an empty screen, it didn't load an swf file ,

Can anyone tell me if the native version of ADO that ships with Win  Server
2003 supports Oracle's XML data type?  I want to use an XML data type
on a field in my database, and access it from VB6 via ADO, but I don't
know where to begin.  Do I need a certain Oracle driver (or should ...