VB Forum / General / May 2005

I am trying to make a playlist in vb6 useing windowsmediaplayer1 and a listbox
I found it on the msdn windows media player sdk a long time agio but I list
the url and cant find it. I am opening a mp3,wma,wmv ... and asx files I
don't want to use a filelistbox since I want to see ...

Hi
In my project, Using FindFirstFile,FindNextFile and FindClose APIs, i am
loading the folders in to listbox (for ex c:\temp\). The problem is some of
the clients having this problem,like in that particular folder they have

Hello. I run the PDW and get the dependency list of files needed. Then I run
the PDW and create the Package. I then install the program on my PC but when
I run it I get error #53, File Not Found. When I check the "Support Folder"
in the Package, all the files are there that were ...

I have an application that I give to customers for free to use.  This
application has no protection and I have into problems with competitors
using it.  I want to protect a new release of this application but do not
want to make it difficult for customers to use.  Any ideas on ...

Hi, I have a textbox on my form along with several other textbox, labels
and buttons.  When the textbox of interest gets focus, how can I tell
which control had focus prior to it receiving focus?  Thanks.

Good morning. When I try to use the Package/Deployment Wizard to generate
all the files the end user will need to run the program, I get an Error Msg:
"Unexpected error number 429 has occurred: ActiveX component can't create
the object".  Can anyone tell me how to fix this ...

I'm an experienced VB6 developer and new to VB.net.  Its kind of unusual,
but most of my VB6 code is business logic, not GUI stuff.  I've found a lot
of commentary on VB6 vs VB.net GUI differences, but very little about the
compatibility of the "logic code".

For whatever reason, I can't connect to my local SQL Server using
TCP/IP from my VB app. If I add Network Library=dbmssocn to the
ConnectionString property, it just won't connect.Says that either the
server doesn't exist or access denied.  If I remove "Network

I'm trying to make a table with values I pulled from a recordset - for
example a table has rows a,b,c and cols 1,2,3.  Each row is formed by a
loop, but I don't necessarily have values for each cell- the row is
determined by one of the fields- (in the example "y" specifies the row)

Hello Friends,
I am mainly a ASP web developer so I have been looking into the possibilty
of using an "include" style approach to adding code to my VB6 forms.  In ASP
you can place <!--#include file="mypath/mypage.asp" -->  at the top of any

I was wondering, is it possible to tag (to mark) a person or object in a
video stream using VB6 and Directshow.
I think you have to use a Motion Detection System to detect the moving
objects. But it becomes complicated when there are several moving objects in

Hello. Using VB6. I have added the Toolbar Control and the ImageList
Controls to my form. Then using the ImageList Properties and the Images tab
at the top I inserted 7 pictures and the image count showed 7 items.Then I
use the Custom Property of the Toolbar Object (General ...

hi everyone, can anyone point me some help or reference on passing values
from an aspx page? i have a vb6 dhtml page which is supposed to retrieve a
string variable from an aspx page. how do i do it?
Thanks!!

I'm trying to work out how to access "Object Libraries" programatically.  
What I want to be able to do is read in various information about the object
library and store it in a table.
What I'm trying to do is similar to what the Object Browser does in VB6 (and

I have developed the function below to extract consecutive bits from text.
However, executed through Lempel-Ziv-Welch compression/decompression, its
acceleration is insufficient.
Function Bits(sData As String, dStart As Double, dLength As Double) As