VB Forum / Enterprise Development / November 2005

Maybe/probably I'm missing something here, but apparently ...
Back in SAPI 4 (circa 1999), they introduced the DirectSS control for
speech synthesis. Then, Microsoft apparently removed all mention of this
when they went to SAPI 5.0 with its more cumbersome (especially for VB

.NET has some interesting classes like Char.IsPunctuation that would be
very useful in non-.Net applications. Is there some simple trick to
accessing these from VB 5/6?
Thanks in advance for help with this.

VB app works fine accessing Serial Port on one PC.
Another PC reports Serial Port in use by another device.
Each PC has only one serial port.
How do I find who/what has the serial port captured?

all --
I am not a vb programmer by trade, so go easy on me ... the goal is to
copy emails from a public folder and dump them into a text file ... for
import into a mysql db. I've tried using the MAPIFolder namespace, but I

I've a VB6 app that I've created. I would like to set the App's Icon to an
Icon that I've created. How do I do this? On the Make Menu of the Project
Properties, I an Icon option, but it doesn't allow me to Browse or Change
the App Icon.

A family member ran into problems using MSGraph in a new Access 97 app
that they were writing, so of course they called me in to figure it out.
I called up the property page, but as usual there were lots of cryptic
labels for things and no explanation as to exactly what they ...

I am using Microsoft XMLparser
When I get back a nodes text value that has characters "&" it returns
"&" instead of "&" ?
Shouldn't the parser do the conversion automatically?

In the old days, before Microsoft, compilers all had an option to list
the code they produced so that you could see what compiled well and what
did not. Programmers quickly learned not to use what the compiler made a
mess of. This often led to 2:1 speedups in programs.

Is it documented how the various VB6 data types, dynamic arrays especially,
are arranged when they are 'Put' into a binary file?
I'd like to read existing VB6 binaries into .NET.
Thanks for any help,

How can I display the words 'Dr' and 'Cr' before the amount, using the
format function of Vb.
I tried following:-
a=1234

I posted this in vb.winapi yesterday with no response.
I have been working with SystemParametersInfo to turn off\on screensavers.
This is no problem. I cannot find the direction to go in that will basically
change a power profile from something like "Home \ Office" to "Presentation"

How do I get the program files path?
C:\Program Files\

Are there any good examples of sending an email wothout using Outlook that
supports multiple SendTo, CC and attachments?

First, thanks everyone for the excellent solutions to my prior problems.
This is really a two-part question, as maybe the answer to the first
part will also answer the second part.
1. I haven't found a comprehensive writeup of SetWaitableTimer, not even

GetPrivateProfileString (aliased to GetPrivateProfileStringA) called
from VB5 SP3 works GREAT on my XP machine, but on my '98 machine it just
returns a blank buffer and a zero length indication regardless of what
is in the INI file. It doesn't even return the value of the default ...