VB Forum / General / October 2004

I have a .NET application that needs to perform some last second
duties upon termination.   The application has no forms with one
Module containing the Sub Main.  How can I detect/trap the end of the
application during a system shutdown, logoff, end task or end process?

I need to process some input from the user. The input can be in
several formats. Each format requires slightly different processing.
Then, if there are no errors, there is some common processing at the
end of each loop.

Please help - I don't know how to get around this,
I have a VB6 project that has grown and grown, and now I'm often
getting out of memory errors at load time, especially running it
through the IDE.  It's got to the state where I have to reboot Win98

I want my application to display a "Please Wait" window/dialog.
Like a modeless window, it should NOT cause my main application to
stop executing.
But, like a modal window, it SHOULD prevent the user from clicking any

I want to add this static method to my class but the example is in C#, which
I am not too familar with.  How do you write...private static string
CreateSalt(int size)... in VB?  I think the syntax for VB is the keyword
'Share' not 'static' if that is any help.

I'm a Java/C# dev who has been given some ancient VBA
macros to reproduce in another application, and I am
seeing what seems to be an assignment operator :=  which
I am not familiar with. Does this operator have any

I am using VB6 to load a form, process the code then unload it.  I want to
hide this from the user.  I have tried to use the LockWindowUpdate API, but
the form is still visible to some degree (ie. partially visible), so this
doesn't work.

in form8 i have this event :
private sub picture6_keydown(keycode as integer, shift as integer)
.
.

i use a recordset to read a db, this is my code, the first rec runs well and
it return me the right values... i cant open the second one, the store
pricedure return a set of rows but when i try to .movefirst it tells me that
i cant do that with a recordset not open.

Does anyone know how I can encode binary data to produce a character string
using VB6.
TIA
Dwight

If I execute the following code in my app, the GetFileTime call returns zero
but the FSO file object returns the correct creation date.  Any ideas on why?
lFile = OpenFile(ptPathToFile & ptSearchStr, OFS, OF_READWRITE)
If GetFileTime(lFile, FT_CREATE, FT_ACCESS, FT_WRITE) <> 0 Then

Hi, I want to retrieve the icon which is associated with a file extension in
the registry. I don't see any path in the registry under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
indicating the icon associated with the extension. Is there a way this can be
done, and if so how?

I wrote a small app which connects to a friend's FTP site and downloads
various patches using the INET control using FTP commands.
This was working fine until he changed his FTP server to no longer allow
Passive Connections.  In Internet Explorer it was a simple matter to change

How do you set default values for property procedures? (I am NOT asking how
to set default values for Optional arguments).
I suppose you could do this on a UserForm during the Initialize Event, but
how do you do it on a class module that doesn't have an initialize event?

In an application I have to do I need to print files with different
extensions (.Doc, .Xls, pdf, etc) without seeing the actual content. Because
of the different extension I don't know how can I do it. The data base knows
which files to print from a table in which the field is an ...