VB Forum / General / August 2005

Anyone can help me on this, cause currently i'm using vb6 to generate a
report and export to MS Excel. Is there a way export to openoffice
spreadsheet?
PCK

We use wise installer to install our products but on some winXP it fails. So
wetried to manually register the ocx on those machine and it will not work.
Why are we having problem registering vsocx6.ocx on some winXP. We deleted
it and copy a new one and made sure the user had ...

I have VB6 applications compile on winxp, when install to Win98 got
this error "oleaut32.dll file cannot start". Is there any workaround
withour recompile the application on Win98?

How do I automate opening a notepad file, print it and close the file using
VB6 code?
Thanks

Im having some trouble disabling hardware using WMI. I got a handle on
the device, but when I call SetPowerState I get a type mismatch. The
definition of the method says it takes an int (power level), datetime
(when to do it)

Anyone know how to configure DCOM for SQL debugging (i.e stepping through
stored procedure for example) on 2003 server ?
The following article explains how to configure for 2000 server but got
stuck on step 3 when attempting on 2003 server as option ( Distibuted COM

I am looking at creating an app that will open a solid edge drawing, print
it and close it.  I specifically looking at interfacing with the free viewer
SolidEdge gives out.  Any ideas?
Thanks

trying to change the decimal symbol environment variable in vb6 from "," to
"." by
Declare Function SetEnvironmentVariable Lib "kernel32.dll" _
   Alias "SetEnvironmentVariableA" (ByVal lpName As String, ByVal lpValue

List:
I'm trying to limit the allowed values in a field (a maskEdit box or a
TextBox) to valid dollar amounts.  Here's what I have so far:
1. In the KeyPress method, ignore everything that isn't a digit, a

I'm sending Word document to the fax printer from VB6 app by using
FAXCOMEXLib this way:
JobID = objFaxDocument.ConnectedSubmit(objFaxServer)
Everything is working fine. During conversion of the document to Fax Image

Hello List,
   could some one please tell me how can I capture pictures from my
logitech quick cam pro 4000
My platform is VB...

I develop some code in a Dell desktop with 1024x768. The app can't show
propely in a Dell laptop even with same resolution because of the size
problem.
Some examples are:

Whenever I open vb6, MS Antispyware tries to download stuff from
windows\download features and it takes a lot of clicks to get rid of it.
Is there any way to stop this happening?
Thanks

Visual Studio 2005 Version 8.0.50215.44 (beta2.050215-4400)
Got a free copy of this from Microsoft and installed it on a spare machine.
Created a new VB project and tried to add a reference to an OCX, and failed.
There are no tick boxes next to references to select the ones to add. ...

I have a situation where I'd like to serve out some data from my VB6
app such that a standard RSS client can accept it. I've Googled and
checked PlanetSourceCode but haven't been able to come up with any
code or guidelines on how to do this. (if it matters, my VB6 app has a