VB Forum / General / August 2004

I have a problem:
I must generate a preview of Form with some controls , but form is only
loaded (not show !!).
Q: How I create image from all controls on the form?

I built the ActiveX Documentor (TLBHelp.exe)
with VB6 sp4, on Win2k sp3. This was the
original code from 1998.
It works fine in the Dev. environment.

I am looking for a way to ofeer remote assistance programmatically using VB.  I will know the username and the computer name, and already have rights as an expert.  I just want to be able to select the user from a list, double-click on it, and have it offer remote assistance.  ...

Does anyone have a list of good VB coding standards?
Does anyone know microsoft's coding standards?
If yes to either one of these. please send me what you have.
Thanks

I have to write an applciaiton to load a lot of test data
The best way would be to capture keystokes and merge them with addiotanl
data items and then replay it.
Whilst a automated teting tool may fit the the data is stored in a database

Recently I've been working on converting a VB6.0 project over to
VC++.NET.  Everything was going fine until I hit this weird error that
I just cannot figure out.  The error involves trying to translate a
declaration of an external function call from VB to C++.  The error

I have tested the example in MSDN-Library 6.0
to use a ActiceX.exe with an event to the "Master-Program".
original quotation of MS:
Eine der interessantesten Anwendungen von prozeßexternen Komponenten ist

I have a process that reads a barcode.  Unfortunately it gives an incorrect
reading sometimes.  I would like to append a check digit/sum to the end of
the printed barcode data and double check this when the reading.  Is a crc
check sum going to give me the best chance at detecting ...

What is the function StrPtr used for?
TIA,

Looking for a third party (Combo Box) control
that allows to display data with a vertical bar separator just like the
MS-Access one. or if any one know how to
with the default out of the box VB Combo Box Control

If there a simpler method to determine if I left open any files?
For example, my application opens, processes AND closes many files.  However
I want to be sure that when the application closes I did not accidently
leave open a file and not close it properly.

I am trying very hard to use the function key in my vb6 application.  I set
the keypreview to true so the form will be the "in focus" item and I have
tried keydown, keyup and keypress and none seem to capture the function
keys.

This is in the VB 2005 description:
Visual Basic 2005 will introduce inline XML-documentation comments that will assist developers in creating well documented applications ready for deployment inside or outside the enterprise.
What good is XML documentation vs. just commenting it ...

can CDONTS be used in VB?  I'm using them on my ASP pages and they work
great.  I want to be able to use them in VB
thanks
rafael

List:
I'm building an installer package for my application.
I'm having trouble finding the option to move the default installation
from c:\Program Files\AppName to c:\AppName.