VB Forum / General / July 2004

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I have written a class module in VB6 which merges data from a recordset into a word document; the datasource for the merge is a word document with 63 fields.  I need to be able to use an Excel Spreadsheet instead of the word document as a datasource.  I have tried modifying part ...

I have a problem when I use CopyFile function to copy 1.0 MB file from C;\
to A:\ , my application gets hang up with 'Not Responding' message on title
bar until this CopyFile operation is complete.
Please suggest the code to avoid this problem.

I have an application that receives an asynchron switch-signal from an
extern device (via serial or callback). The switch signal triggers
some events in the code.
All works fine, but if the application shows a message box (waiting

Hey everyone I've got a small problem with one of my codes that I can't
figure out how to get around.  When I save files from my program it
outputs a name like ******_***_##.ps  My problem is the ## is a counter
number generated by the program when it saves the file.  What I?m ...

It sure would be handy to have a "Hover" property for variables so
that when I put the curser over a variable in break mode, I would see
a formatted value.
In my current application, I use a lot of time data and some of it is

I am trying to extract and then save a icon from an exe, dll or ico to
a file.
can anyone help me on this.  I am using Vb6.0 and would appreciate it
if anyone can help.

Hi, this appears to be a common problem, though not easy to resolve as there
are various combinations.
I have a vb project that produces error = 430 Class does not support
automation of expected interface when the exe is run on a production pc.

I need to create a script to monitor the performance / state of a win 2003
server. The script must create a file with information about the CPU
(temperature, ..), HD (partitions, free space, ..) Memory (free memory,
...), Users connected, Opened files, Swap file use, precesses (and ...

Is there any way to save bookmarks and breakpoints across executions
of the IDE?
The "persistence" entry in the help is greyed out.

Hi, I hope someone can help me with this matter..please
I am doing an application in VB6 and I cannot format dates (dd/mm/yyyy) or currency in a MSH FlexGrid as I do with the DataGrid... It only has the FormatString property. Using some code I managed to align the text in the cell ...

I wrote a VB 6.0 app that uses ADO and it requires the end user to have MDAC
2.8 installed.  Is there a way to have the MDAC installed at the time the
application is installed, say mavbe with the P&DW instead of making the end
user download it and install it manually?

Is there a mechanism that works something like MsgBox -- that is, is
able to pop up a window with information in it -- but that has a
larger capacity than the 1024 character limit for MsgBox and that
allows text formatting (at least a monospace font, but ideally bold

Below source code I have try on Win 2k, XP & 2003 is work, but I try on win 98 & ME the screen is capture black image.
       Dim dInt_dwRop As Integer = &HCC0020
       Dim dImg As New System.Drawing.Bitmap(Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Width, Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Height, ...

I am trying to pull data off of a website that just started using SSL (previously we were pulling data off the site just using http).  The old site had url, say, "www.url.com" where the certificate was issued.  The new site is "www.urlnew.com" but is using the cert from the old ...