VB Forum / General / September 2004

Would some of you please explain why you prefer the Windows API
drives/directories/files functions to the FSO and its associated objects?  
Other than performance, why choose one over the other?
Personally, I prefer the API calls because somewhere in my mind, I believe

Im running vb6 ( sp6 ) on a windows XP Pro machine
For some reason i can no longer 'Make Project exe' or make project group.
both these options are grayed out. I have tried reinstalling Service pack 6
but this has not fixed the problem

VB6 - I made a [help][about] form which is five time slower to
load/show  from the compiled EXE than in the IDE.
IDE -- 1 second
EXE -- 5 seconds

Don't know if this is the proper NG for this question; if not, please advise
which NG would be correct for such a query. :-)
OS: W98se/IE6-SP-1 fully patched.
Is it possible to add (a pointer to) the *Security Tab* from IE Options to

I am using the following code to add a task to the windows task scheduler.  I
can't seem to figure out how to add a specific date out of the realm of the
current month, say 12/21/04 for example.  Any ideas on how to add a specific
date a month or two in the future.

Good afternoon, folks.
Have a newbie question that I hope someone might assist me with.  Have
a basic form and class module.  Code for the form is thus:
-----

I created a Windows Service in VB.Net and I tried using the InstallUtil and I
keep getting this error message -- please help
Exception occurred while initializing the installation:
system.io.filenotfoundexception: file or assemble name emailpooler.exe, or

OK, this problem seems like it should be easy to solve, but the solution
continues to evade me.  I need to put some rtf formatted text into both Word
documents and PowerPoint presentations.  Word is not an issue, I just use the
following code:

I am writing some code to locate files (exe's, dll's, etc) in a given root
directory and its subdirectories.  For the most part I've been successful.  
The problem that I am having is on the line tFile = Dir$ in the GetFiles
subroutine below.

I'd like to use my Access 2K application to write some text in the
file properties of a Windows file. The properties I'm talking about
are the properties you see whn you right click on a Windows file and
then click on Properites, then the Summary tab.

Is it possible to create a custom enumerator object in VB6?
I am building a quite complex container object that in general behaves like
a very intelligent collection. I would "like" to be able to use For-Each
outside of the object to enumerate internal items. However, the ...

List:
I'm searching the helpfiles and not finding the information.  I'm
probably using the wrong terms.
Anyway.

Pretty much what it says.  Form displays correctly, then prints blank.
I'm printing the form after it's hidden.  Is that wrong?
Thanks
Charles

Having trouble Implementing events in classes.
e.g.
'Interface ITest
Public Event InvalidChar(argChar As String)

I've narrowed down my problem to a key issue. If I don't create a key, then
ADO is happy. If I do, then I know get  a complaint. I've whipped up the
code fragment below to illustrate my problem. I'm using ADO v2.8, although
v2.7 has the same problem.