VB Forum / General / February 2005

Is there an API function that I can call from my vb6 app to obtain the NT
login name?
Thanks,
Ellie

I have a small VB5 utility which I want to use to update one mdb table from
the contents of another.  To save the user looking at a dead screen for ten
minutes, I created a range of text boxes (one for each field) to display how
many records have been amended.  However, the boxes do ...

Can anyone point me to some sample code or Hot-To's?
I have read and unserstand the RFC's for DNS and have actually kept track of
it for many years now.  But now I am in a position to write code to
communicate directly with the hosts DNS server(s).  Due to its archaic

I have a Vb program writing text to a ,doc file which I then open in Word.
How can I set the font size / typeface from VB whilst writing the .doc file?
thanks
Garry

I thought Form level variables init themselves every time
a form loads that has previously gone out of scope.
Does unloading a form, then later reloading it, init the
variables?

Every time I try to access the properties of any of the data controls on my
form, (2 Adodc, 2 DataGrid) I get the Windows Installer telling me to wait
while it configures Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine, again! This takes
some considerable time, and is driving me nuts!

I am currently experimenting some problems printing the contents of a
flexGrid. In our program we use the following instruction instruction to
print the object
Printer.PaintPicture flxGrdPrintTemp.Picture, 200, 2000

I have not been able to locate any information on how to use
the SetupAPI.dll and cfgmgr32.dlls in VB. Can any one direct
me to information on this?
I need a routine that safely "disconnects" a USB drive so that

I am playing with API just for experience and I cant find how to change the
color of the windows task bar programmatically. I could make it transparent,
but I can't change its color. I have tried SetBKColor, sending a message,
but nothing works. I could not change the color of ...

I have a sub in a standard module that is modeling some data.  I want to
pause it or suspend it at user control.  While the sub is running, controls
will not respond.  
My research seems to indicate that the only solution is to have a timer

What is the difference?  And what does one buy me over the other?  I have
used DLLs many times, but never used ActiveX Exes.  I'm wondering if this
could continue to help me on my continuing quest to code once and use many
times.  (.Net folks would call it 're-factoring').

in the folowing software
http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=45386&lngWId=1
WM_SYSCOMMAND is used with uCmdType=&hF012. The
documentation says the the 2 of F012 is "internal". Any ideas what

I use VB6 and the browser control to view htm pages within my app.
My app has 3 modes: level1, level2 and level3. According to each mode I need
to display a different page. Instead of having 3 different pages, I was
thinking if it is possible to hide or show html tags according to ...

I have a large VB6 application that I am maintaining. When I attempted to Make it this morning I was confronted with an Out Of Memory error. In reading the Help I see that there are a couple of potential culprits, the biggest of which seems to be the amount of Global declarations ...

I have a slight problem related to taking the values out of a database. I
understand as far as sending the SQL statement and then using a recordset to
gain the data. But im trying to write a database class what i can use within
all my scripts. So I cant use code like the following: