VB Forum / General / March 2005

Without doing anything special, if I raise a custom event from an OCX, does
it complete before the code in the OCX continues?  My assumption is yes, but
I thought I'd ask anyway.
TIA!

Is there an environment variable that I can check to see whether or not
my UserControl code is executing at design time in the VB IDE, or
whether it is executing at run time?  I need my control to resize
differently at runtime than at design time, among other things.

I've developed a custom control that itself uses other custom controls.
Everything works great on the development machine, but on some client
machines, I'm getting the above error when I try to execute a program
that uses the control. I've created some small test applications that

List:
I'm going over some old code adding error handling.  For every function
that lacks an error handler, I'm doing something like this:
function functionName(variousParams as paramtype ) as returnType

VB6.
I'm using the timer control at a 100mS rate to ultimately control the time
of the tests my program performs ( ie: 5 minutes total).  I'm pretty sure
this is not a good idea because the accuracy seems to vary on different

I have an app that needs to have a different icon appear in the Start Menu >
Program Files list depending on whether the software is licensed one way or
another.
I have the icons and have used the following conditional comp statement when

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Hai,
I am having an ActiveX Control, I have inserted the control through
Components, and it is working fine. I have taken exe, the exe is also
working fine.

Any idea how to make a combobox case - sensitive in VB.
Let us assume i have a range object in Excel with 2 strings which are
the same but the case is different. Eg: ABC  and abc.
Now i set the row source of the combo to this range object.

Hi. I am having a problem which I have never seen before. I have some code
which runs fine in a compiled dll which errors in debug mode.
Take this code
Public Function RunSQLSelect(ByVal dbConn As ADODB.Connection, ByVal sSQL As

I want to use the Shell command to run one executable program from another.
I need to send password information as an argument to the second program.
Are the arguments passed on a shell command secure, or do I need to encrypt
the information?

I have created a program in VB 6.0 and am trying to use the Package and
Deployment Wizard to create an installation.
I work but for one thing. The program will be installed 'Just for me', i.e.
Only the user that is logged on when installing will get the menu under

I'm using VB 6.0 and the Package and Deployment Wizard to create an
installation program. AFAIK, .exe files created with VB 6.0 needs a runtime
to work(?).
Will the Package and Deployment Wizard create everything I need to

I am trying to extract the value (V140-28) out of a string shown below:
1     3      V140-28                  000 INV                EA    6
6
How can I do this?

I am trying to get a count of each type of process that's
currenly running. I've got the following so far:
=================CODE==========================
Sub GetProcesses()