VB Forum / General / December 2004

we installed our product (devloped by vb6 - setup crated by installshield) on
NT 4.0. after that its keep on
giving this error message. any idea how to solve this problem.
"The procedure entry point Rtllpv4StringToAddressW could not be located in

I am attempting to use visual basic to perform a few seemingly simple tasks,
but I have been unsuccessful to do so.  I am trying to write a code that can
communicate through a serial port to a microcontroller.  All I need the code
to do is to open a com port on my computer, send it ...

Is there a way within Visual Basic 6.0 to determine the version of each form,
class, or module within the project?  I'm trying to figure out a way where I
can generate a report to generate this information.
If it can't been done in Visual Basic 6.0, is there any other tool that ...

I have a form that displays status or progress information. In the situation
where I'm having a problem, I'm reading the contents of a series of files.
The window is supposed to be displayed at the start of reading a file,
display a progress bar as the reading progresses, and ...

List:
I would find it very useful to invoke SetTimer for every instance of a
particular class with the callback function in each instance of the
class.

I am getting a compile error, "Assignment to constant not permitted", when I
try to make column 6 of my FlexGrid control invisible.  Is the VB help
wrong?  Is this property actually read only and cannot be set or am I just
doing it wrong?

I have a combobox with dropdowncombo style so the user can type in text.
Initially the list is empty and as the user types in, records from a
preloaded recordset are filtered and listed in the list. All works fine. On
the Validate event I check if the user's entry exists in the list ...

I'll be grateful if anyone could help me out to write a code for the
following problem--I presume it's simple but unfortunately could not find
the way out in the books!
In a list box, the following itmes are put in:

We have created a VB6 application that someone else is trying to use.
The install goes fine, but when he starts the application, he gets an
error "The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that
is unavailble".

currently we are developing a program using MDI form which have sub from
inside.
The client is request to incorporate a function which will allow user to
write a batch file to execute the sub from inside the program.

I had a simple class export by regular DLL written by vc++,
Other develop tool like VB are going to use it.
But i don't know how the refernce/declare the class in VB ....
Can i use this class in VB directly , or should i pack this class

Can someone help me with this? I get overflow errors  when I try to use the
format function. How would I turn 20041003 into something like 10/03/2004 or
10/03/03 or the October 03, 2004 format? I would think once I can do one the
others should be easy. Do I need to pull this ...

Just want some expertise here if i may as please.
If i had a long varable ( which can change in lengh), how can i break it
down to single varables with a total on how many there are.
i.e

I have quite a bit of experience in vb6, but none in vb3.  I just received
an old vb3 project and managed to get the executable running under windows
xp by installing mscomm.vbx,  threed.vbx and vbrun300.dll in the same
directory as the executable.  Seems like the app is working and ...

Passwords hidden by asterisks in VB and even within Windows can be revealed
in full with API call SendMessage among other methods since messages within
Windows are not secured in anything other than plaintext unlike trusted
systems. Even if the password is encrypted after entry, the ...