VB Forum / Enterprise Development / January 2006

My fancy error handler, which has functioned well in several large
production programs, is having a problem in a real time application.
The application is a conversational voice interface that interfaces
existing voice input and output systems to another program via the

I need to get the signature folder for the current folder such as;
"F:\Documents and Settings\Dave\Application Data\Microsoft\Signatures\"
except that instead of Dave I need the correct name for the current user, s
that my code works generically regardless of who is logged in. Is ...

Instead of a range of numbers to randomly select a number (like 1 to 100),
I'd like to supply the numbers from which to choose from an array of
numbers.
Can I select a random number from an array of specific numbers, excluding

Does anyone know how to calculate Longitudinal Redundancy Check(LRC) in
VB.NET?
I am trying to send Visa-II formatted even parity message to a credit
card processor and am not sure how to calculate the LRC which needs to

Can the Management Point API (SmsMsgApi.dll) be called from a VB/VBScript or
VB.NET application? Are there any examples anywhere for this API? There seems
to be NO information outside of the SMS 2003 SDK V3, which has nothing for VB
programmers.

I have Oracle DB Table with one of its column (VARCHAR). I read and write to
this data .[non-english or English] using VC application then everything
works fine. But if I use a VB application to read the data.[non-english] and
write it back to the same palce the content is corrupted ...

I am unable to debug my COM+ VB Dlls anymore.  This used to work fine all
the time, but, now gives me a "Out of Memory" error everytime I try to debug
a DLL.  The only thing that changed was that I ran a Windows update on my
Windows XP PC.

I have created a component which parses some flat
files and stores in Sql database. Now I want to move
that COM object to database server.
Now the scenario will be like this :

Please advise some performance Tips for developing
Enterprise level applications in VB ?

I'm a little rusty in VB6.  Is there a built-in function in VB6 that does
something like the following?
If Not isNum(MyTextBox) Then
   MsgBox "You idiot!"

I have seen some videos on channel 9 about the upcoming vb9. Would that be
vb9.net, a follow up on vb6 or both?

I'm currently working in VB6, but my most recent experience has been in VBA
for MS-Access (Office XP) where I could make a form "modal" meaning it would
be the only form I could work with as long as it was open, forcing a user to
work on only that form or else close it.  I like ...

How to convert COM dll to DCOM and what is
the syntax to call that DCOM. I have done this
with Visual FoxPro but not with VB 6.
Please advise ?