VB Forum / General / April 2005

Could someone please tell me how to stop / re-start a Windows' service in
VB6?
Thanks,
Steve

i have one project and i use it References and Components
i want to be able to put these dll files and ocx in a designated folder not
in the c:\windows\system directory
how can do this?

How do i determine if a machine is a Tablet-PC?
Thank you,
Brian

I'm looking resources or tutorial where I can learn how to add
properties to other objects at design time for VB.NEt or C#.
I want to reproduce the same effect as when your drop the tooltip object
on a form. Once it's done, every object has a new property added to the

How do I save clipboard content to an access field? Clipboard content is
binary (blob) in this case. Thank you.

Is their a kind of way to check the file extension of an open file (with
common dialog). Because i have to sort AVI and MPEG.
Thx in advance
Dennis

I have a feature in my program that will copy all of the forms caption into
the computers normal clipboard,
the user can paste this into any thing else they wish by pressing the
standard ctl+v

When I do this:
Dim poRegKey As New RegistryKey
in the declarations of my VB.NET program I get the following error message:
Overload resolution failed because no 'New' is accessible.

Is there any way to get the msg box that says "File exists, overwrite?" if
the file exists? when using a Save dialog box?

I recently tried out a new version of Real Basic Standard.  Not too bad and it does create applications
for Windows , Linux and the Apple MAC (the PRO Version).   Not that I'm leaving VB.NET anytime soon!!  But, I received an offer
of a free  upgrade to their PRO version if people ...

I have googled, searched and read search results and MSDN until I'm almost blind.
Is there a way or method in VS6 VB that does the same thing as using RedirectStandardOutput
in VS .NET VB
Even a pointer to the correct terminology to search for would be great.

I'm a C++ and Java programmer who quickly needs to get started with Visual
Basic 6 and VB6 together with COM. I would be grateful for recommendations on
good books, online tutorials, resources etc.

I was wondering if there was a way for VB6 to return a detailed information
regarding an error that occured, something like a stack trace maybe so I
know exactly where it failed.
The issue is that I don't want to litter my app with error handling routing

i have a usercontrol with the ctl file itself  plus a module (bas). it seems
impossible to raise an event for the control from the module. is this in any
way possible? i amusing vb6 pro and really need it because i am using the
settimer api to create a hi-res timer and the ...

I am building an MDI Application with some menus and toolbars on the
MDIMain form, that are only accessible when certain child forms that
need them are active.
Now to my question: