VB Forum / General / September 2004

How can i determine if my application is allready running when i try to open
a new instance of my application?

Is there a way to Add Web Reference in VB6? I understand that VB.Net
have this option.
Thanks

Sometimes when I close the same app using the regular black cross button,
the window disappear but the process is still alive in the taskbar.
I noticed that is related to a dialog box I call from my app, though I put
"unload me" statements in the OKbutton and cancel events of the ...

I am successfully using tlbinf32.dll to loop through and obtain the value of
an object's (say myObject) properties at run time.  My question is - if I
want to change the value of any of the properties how do I do that?
So I have

I'm getting an error when I try to compile a VB6 program that references a custom dll.  The error is "User-defined type not defined".  There is already a reference to the dll in my project.
Any ideas?  

Does anyone know of a ComboBox that has a built-in function to remove
duplicate records when it reads items from an ascii text file and loads
them.  Similar to the "Sort" property of the ComboBox for sorting the items
in ascending order.  Does anyone have a solution?

I'm using the API "OpenFile" to get the date created of a file.  I
then compare it to another date.  If it's older, I want to delete it.
I'm using the "CloseHandle" API to supposedly close the file, but it's
not closing it, therefore I can't delete the old file. What is the

I have a GroupBox and inside I have  3 checkbox
What I want to do is customize it, I'm going to add a button at the end so I
can Add/Remove additional checkbox from a database, so in that way I can add
or remove checkbox all I want and the Groupbox must resize automatically

I don't know if anyone can give any pointers on this issue - it's worth a
try. Of necessity the description of the problem will need to be quite
basic.
We have a large commercial app, written in VB6 and developed on NT on which

I've an application which 'includes' an OCX which I've written myself.
Until today, we 'still' work in NT4 and I have no problems.
BUT !
When I run the same program in 2003/XP I get an error at the startup

I'm using the API "OpenFile" to get the date created of a file.  I then
compare it to another date.  If it's older, I want to delete it. I'm using
the "CloseHandle" API to supposedly close the file, but it's not closing it,
therefore I can't delete the old file. What is the correct ...

I am trying to get an old strain guage that worked with a program written in
DOS to work with a Windows program written in VB.  I tried using
MSCOMM32.ocx to communicate with the strain guage throught the serial port
but had problems.  I then tried to get it to work in ...

I have an ActiveX DLL written in VB 6. In it, there are 2 forms, 1
global.bas and 4 class modules. There is some code in one of the form
modules that needs to call a function in one of the classes. No matter
which combination of Public or Friend I use, the function is not visible

anyone knows where I can find a little program in VB to connect to a DB
(edit,Add,delete) and make a report, I  need it like a starting point, then
I can continue alone
Thank you

Necesito hacer una vista ,Espero q me sepa explicar :
Tengo un GroupBox y dentro tengo 3 checkbox
lo quisiera hacer es personalizarlo poder agregarle un boton al final del
GroupBox donde me aparzca una ventana de Agregar/quitar , y al agregar o