VB Forum / General / February 2005

Is there a way to determnine the task id for the AppActivate function
if
1- the app was not activated by the shell command
2- The app is alrady runnung

I have a problem, I'm implementing an ActiveX control which has a
usercontrol and a few class modules. well when something happened in the
system I get a notification in a Class modue and I want to notify the
UserControl to update the apearances according to that notification, ...

using vb.net
I need to write a simple vb app that runs powerpoint and loads a specific
presentation file as a slideshow. The "normal" syntax, as seen in a shortcut,
would be:

I have a VB6(sp4) application that installs on desktop systems.  I have
tested it in my office on WinME, WinXP Home, WinXP Pro and Win 2K Pro.  It
works on all those.  When installed on one customer’s WinXP Home system, we
get an “Out of Memory” error when trying to open a form ...

I have a VB dll which is being used by ASP.net developers. The problem is
that everytime I build my dll, the case of some properties keep changing. For
e.g, id changes to ID and so on. However, this change is not visible in the
Visual Basic project. Could you pls tell me why this ...

I connect to sql server and run a simple select query and disconnect from
the server. It works after a few days and I get this error message when it
tries to open a new connection:
Error number: -2147023782

I have a text file with spaces between the words. Is
there a way of changing the spaces into commas from VB6?

In Internet Explorer I can open an https web site as a web folder and copy
files to it.
How can I do this in code with VB6?
(I also put this question in VB.NET news group; I apologize if this is

I need to know how I can accomplish this. The company I am working for uses
an old program with a text interface. This interface talks to a database that
I have no access to. This interface is similar to a Dos command prompt. You
type in commands and the interface displays ...

I have a small vb6 application. When I use Date or format
funcion (format(now, "dd/mm/yyyy")), I always get the
error "vb6.exe has generated errors and will be closed by
Windows. You will need to restart the program. An error

I am trying to use some functions from the module Winbase.bas. But when I
try to run my program, I get an Out of memory error. In Winbase.bas a
number of lines are highlighted in red. All of these lines have the Alias
keyword in them. Is there any correlation between the error ...

I am looking to create a VB6 executable that will do nothing more than
launch an external HTA file.
Can this be done without requiring any runtime libraries for the compiled
exe file?

I wonder if anyone know of a tool that could help me identify memory leaks
in a VB6-program.
The problem might be that a referenced component or external ocx has a
built-in leak that uses up all memory, but we don't know for sure.

I have a Timer control in my  vb6 app. When I run exe, everything works fine
and timer event gets trigered just like it should. When I turned process into
windows NT service by using srvAny.exe, Timer event doesn't work anymore.
I have done this many times and never had any ...

I am having problem at a time of conversion to unicode format.
I have one file which is stored in unicode format.
At a time of opening that file by using opentextfile, i am passing
last parameter as unicode support.