VB Forum / General / June 2005

How my VB6 appl. can read the version major.minor.revision of another
VB6 appl. exe?
Thanks you
Marty

I am currently running SP5.  What is the general consensus these days?
Should I install SP6???

This is slightly OT, but here goes........ I have a VB6 project that
works with a USB connected data acquisition module. I'm trying to build
an installer (using Installshield) that installs my VB program AND the
drivers for the USB device in one-shot WITHOUT requiring the user to ...

Hi --
I have an odd set of requirements that got flummoxed by the maximum URL length
limitation.  In short:
 * VB5 app with no dependencies other than runtime,

How can I map (and cut) a network share in VB?
Thanks for the help?
Nijazi Halimaji

How can I retrieve the file listing of a directory located on my web site?
ex: http://www.myAddress.com/download
Thank you.
Marty

Even though MS has discontinued support for VB6, will the microsoft.com site
still support the VB6 forum?
If not, can you recommend a comparable VB6 forum elsewhere?  In other words,
where will most of this community go?

I'm in need of a little direction, I've been tasked to create an app where
the user can store dates and times in a table (informix) and when that date
and time occurs send a popup message (like using net send computer_name
"message") to a select number of computers on our network ...

How do I read command line arguments that where set on the Project
Properties->Make->Command Line Arguments
Thanks, mdn

I've written a script that runs as part of the group policy that is set to
modify the registry of the HKCU that hides all drives but one drive in
particular (H Drive).
The only problem is when i log in as a test user that has the GPO with the

Is it possible to play an MP3 file asynchronously using VB6 code and/or API?
If so how is the playback made asynchronous?
Thanks in Advance...

If I want to download files "http://myWebAddress.com/abc/*.*" from my
VB6 project, do I have to create a WinHttp.WinHttpRequest object?
Is it the good object to use to perform the task that I want?
Thanks you!

I was wondering if anyone of you could enlighten me here. i have an
application which i am trying to package here. After generating the exe file
and installing it, the error occurs. I have a function which allows user to
create a new database. Everytime i execute that particular ...

My windows app developed in VB has a command line mode.
So I expect that other applications will call my app using a shell approach.
In the case of command line syntax errors, I want to exit with code that
indicates that nature of the error.

I have a function
public function fun1(strID as string) as variant
on error goto errHandler
if not something then