VB Forum / General / September 2004

I have an app that has been fairly stable for a few years.
A user suddenly got an error that I first took for spyware, but may be
a MS message specific to XP.
It's a dialog box that includes:

Hi. How can I get an office apllication path, such as Access? I want to
know where Access is installed in a computer, using vb6.
Thanks

Does anyone know of a simple way to sort items in a ComboBox according to
their ItemData index?  None of the references I have really touch on the
subject.
All help is appreciated!

I have been running vb6 accessing an access database forever under XP
Now I installed SP2, and the database access does not work anymore.
The line that bombs out is:
db.Open "PROVIDER=Microsoft.Jet.OLEdb4.0;Data Source=c:\table.mdb"

I'm trying to SAVE AS the contents of a RTB as a file - -
However, I get varying results
I need to check the existing file to see if the file is read-only
How can I do this?

I'm having problem adding a RichText Control (6.0 SP4)
into my form in Excel. I always get an error message (in
french since i'm using WINXP french)...
Is there a bug with this control and WINXP??

Can't remember where this code is from. It gets the icon index of a
file type to be used on a ListView.
sFile = ".txt"
But someone suggested that a full path is required for this function

I need a textbox control that supports unicode? The main job would be to
enter arabic or chinese characters and get the 16bit unicode character code.
MSForms2.0 control works OK, but does anybody know an alternative textbox
control that supports unicode?

I'm having a problem to add a user defined type to a collection, can this
not be done ?   anyway this is how it looks right now:
In a Module:
Public Type MyPortType

I am looking for some sample code to access my wireless card (LinkSys)  Any
snippets I can examine?  I'm looking for similar (though not as
sophisticated) as 'NetStumbler' as an example.  This is NOT a professional
endeavor.  Just want to play with some code.

I am trying to get hwnd of a picturebox using WindowFromDC call, but it keep
returning Null (0). The hDC value going in is right. Is there a window
handle associated with the picturebox in the first place ? If so, what am I
doing wrong ?  If there is no window handle associated with ...

Just to stir up trouble, I was doing a Google search on this group
today, and found the following post.  Interesting how MS has changed,
no?
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=%23Yby16MF%24GA.252%40cp
pssbbsa05

example: telnet to your mail server on port 25 and the server accepts the
connection and echos a message back to your telnet screen. thats what i need
to do.
i need the server to listen on a specific port, and when i use telnet to

Could anyone please introduce me any library or object for VB excuting
Novell commands?
Thanks

We have a number of modular components that can be put together to form
large systems.  These components come in set lengths of  X, Y, and Z.
If a user requires a length L I want to provide a list to the user in the
form