VB Forum / General / January 2005

I have an ini file, along with my app
[MyApp]
ConnectionString=Provider=SQLOLEDB.....
I use GetPrivateProfileString to get the value out on my own machine, and it

I want to create a program with a button that when clicked it will telnet
into a Linux machine and run a script called /usr/local/bin/testscript.scr
then get the result if the script is successfully run in a textbox on the
form and then log off from the Linux system.

I have VS6 installed on my machine.  Since we setup a BizTalk server with VB
.NET, I would like to install VB .NET on my machine to work through some
programming tasks.  Can VB6 and VB .NET cooperate on the same machine, or am
I asking for trouble?

Can anyone help me??
Im writing a program that enable to get the data from SQL server to Excel
via VB6 using datepicker..How can i use datepicker to gather the data from
that date? Example: from datepicker i choose 01/12/2005 when i click the

Can someone point me in the right direction, please?
Thanks.

Where can i found rgb values for drawing with office2003 colors.
Thanks

This is from MS web site about the WM_QUERYENDSESSION flag and WindowProc
subclassing function
Parameters
wParam

I have a main application that calls an ActiveX DLL
(prWinsockWrapper.dll) which contains a form with winsock
control and a public class (clsWinsockMain). I thank you
Terry and Ken for the codes.

My database VB6 project uses extensive control arrays. The controls are
loaded with parameters from a database table. One parameter is the name of
the field that info in the control will be saved to. This parameter is
stored in the .DataField property of the control.

Can an ActiveX DLL raise an event to the main
application that calls it ?
I have an ActiveX dll with a control in it, and I need to
tell the main application if certain event is raised in

I did not know there was a SP6. Never checked again after installing SP5.
Issues are mentioned for SP6. What are they? What is SP6 supposed to do?
Thanks

I am trying to work out exactly what support Microsoft provide for VB6 and
Interdev 6 now and for how long this will continue. Different sources on the
web say different things, including some of MS's own pages and they seem to
keep changing their minds.

this feature from VBA seems not to be implemented in VB6.
Therefore I tried do it myself
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' nEnteredLength ... is the length of the entered text

I'm trying to use TreeView control as a left pane of Windows Explorer on my
VB6 form.
I populated this control with all items (Desktop, My Documents, My Computer
etc).

Here's the situation: there's a file on my local machine which gets backed up
every night to the network server with the name datetime.BAK.  In order to
prevent these files from taking up too much space, I was going to write a VB6
app which would run once a week and delete all ...