VB Forum / General / August 2004

I would like to use VB to otain members from an Active Directory OU.  This
would be very hellpful for reviewing our various OU security group
membership.  
I believe that I saw an article regarding this on the MSDN home page a few

How can I link / embed an object / picture to specific CELLS [ not
worksheets ] in Excel  dependent on values calculated in a VB6 program ?
I wish to display a very small horizontal bar with a line positioned
according to a computed value [ 1 to 10 ] in particular cells. [ eg a sort

I have a program written in C which outputs a text file and we are using VB
to write a GUI front-end to wrap around that C program and process the text
file.
VB's "shell" command would work fine but it does not wait for the other

I need to transfer a picture via WinSock. How can I put the contents of a
picturebox into a variable to send it via WinSock?
The problem is that the variable must be string, byte or numeric to be
transferable.

I want to know how to make sure that all the resources my program used are
completely cleared when the program is exited. Is there any good way of doing
this?
Thanks for your help ahead of time,

I have a VB6 program that lets the user view pictures while listening to
music. It uses the multimedia control (MCI32.OCX). Normally I use the
Package and Deployment wizard to create an install program. However in this
case I wish to put the program on a CD and let the user run ...

I'm using Karl Peterson's WinInet wrapper,
vbinet.exe, in Win2k.
I use it in WSH/VBScript to upload via
FTP to my ISP site.

I use VB6,Outlook XP
How do I know if I have an appointment set to (e.g.): 01/01/2005 ?
Can I tell on what time it is set and what is its duration ?
(already went to developer.outlook.vba - did not get a reply...yet...)

I have a procedure that used to accept a picture box object as an argument,
Sub SetControlPicture(TheControl As PictureBox, ThePicture As String)
I want to alter the routine to work with either PictuerBox or Image
controls.  Is there a way to put a single type on TheControl to ...

I need some help.I have a program that holds info on a client ie address's.
This info is stored in textboxes on a form in a commercial program.
Is there a way to get this info into my program.
I am thinking about using API  in VB6 to get this info.

Somehow, a reference to VB6Debug.dll has crept into the project file. You
can see this reference if you open the VBP in Notepad, but it doesn't show
up in the reference listing in the IDE.
1. What is this?

I have a digital thermometer connected to my serial port (com1). If I use
HyperTerminal to connect to the port (2400,n,8,1) I get constant readings
(every second) from the thermometer.
Does anyone have a bit of code they could give me for VB6, which would

Hello Friends,
From VB6, what is the most compatible way to connect to an Access database
without requiring the user to need an additional driver?  I would like to
maximize the compatibility of my app by having it work on Win 98 through

I have an application that saves data to an Excel 2003 spreadsheet.
This is the code at the end of  the procedure that saves the spreadsheet:
......
Active_WorkSheet.SaveAs App.Path & "\Spreadsheets\NPT Reagent Medians " &

I've been using VB6 for a few years now, and recently started database
programming (so I'm kinda a noob).  The one thing I keep reading over and
over is that you should use unbound controls in favor of bound controls.  Is
using the data control really that bad?  Are there certain ...