VB Forum / General / January 2005

All of a sudden my program has stopped running and I get a "run time
error 48 cannot load dll.  HOW DO I DETERMINE WHICH DLL GOT CORRUPTED
It is driving me crazy!!!

I have a VB6 application running under W2K which uses late binding to add
some data to an Excel worksheet. After which I save the workbook.
I now have a directory loaded with files. All named with eight hex
characters ( eg. 0DF89A02, no XLS extension ) with time stamps which

in my usercontrol
i create a sub routine :
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Public Property Set Picture(NewPicture As StdPicture)

Hi
Please can you help I seem to be getting my year and day switched round. A
user puts in a date such as 2112 (mmyy) in that format. I was doing some
testing and noticed that an invalid month (which I want to trap) is getting

We've just had a quirk in one of our Excel VBA applications associated with
localised versions of Excel returning different text strings for boolean
variables. For example:
Dim X As String

I'm using SendKeys to try to enter the hot
key for a menu item in another VB6 app.
The hot key is Ctrl-Y. When I send "^Y"
or "^(Y)", nothing appears to happen in

I am doing a class that involves objects created from Autocad.
I have the correct type library referenced.
This is not an issue particular to the acad type library...
I have a module level variable defined at the top of my class:

I'm having a strange problem and a bit of difficulty solving it. I'll
describe it in a broad manner here without going into details and
hopefully someone has experienced it and could give me a solution.
I have a main application with a grid on the front screen. From that

I have an appointment screen which allows the user to input the beginning
and ending time of their appointment in a text box.
I would like them to be able to input times with the following syntax:
They type:          I convert to

I want to copy files from Windows Explorer into my VB6 app. I use the
clipboard object, but it only supports text of data (bitmaps). It does
recognize the clipboard contains files, but I can't paste them.
When I use OLEDrag/Drop the Data Object contains a list of selected

I have a main application that calls an ActiveX DLL
(prWinsockWrapper.dll) which contains a form with winsock
control and a public class (clsWinsockMain).
The control events are wrapped into the clsWinsockMain.

I have a number of forms that use Public Variables to init  and return Data.
Which is the best way to do this as far as memory management and form
management?
Form1

Maybe it is too simple for this group, but anyway: I need to create a
directory with a given name. How can I check if this directory already
exists? Mkdir function gives an error if I try to create an already existing
directory.

I having a hard time with regular expressions, this is my first attempt at
using them.
I need to take a string which will have some text between quotes and return
the text between quotes or any other character for that matter.  The text

When the close button (x) is clicked on a form , I would like to Hide it
instead of having it unloaded. How can I prevent the form from being
unloaded. Thanks in advance.