VB Forum / General / October 2005

All,
In order to track down which servers have potentially been infected by a
Trojan, I need to remotely scan a lot of registries. The problem I have is
that the entry will be under HKEY_CURRENT_USER, which isn't available to

Anyone know of any algorithms/code snippets that will analyze/parse a
bitmap and come back with a color that would best "match" the palette?
I found a wallpaper program a long time ago that did that to set the
icon text background color to match the current wallpaper.

Can a colored image/picture (gif, jpg etc.) be converted into
black-and-white programmatically in a VB6 Form?
Thanks,
Arpan

Just one more question:
When using GetPrivateProfileInt() API  the return value is the integer.
Can I cast that value into variable which is declared as Long or Byte?
or it will be ETC?  :)

I have problem finding how to converting between week number and date -
using functions in vb6.
If I have a date how do I find the week number - and if I have the week how
do I find the start/end dates?

I have an app that builds an XML file manually (without the XML DOM).  I
know I could use the XML DOM but it is not an option in this case.
Is there a routine somewhere out there that converts XML special
characters (like quote, apostrophe and so forth) to its XML equivalents

I am trying to run the MSDN Library from VS 6 from a network share.  Whenever
I select a topic that is not installed as part of the typical installation
(on the "client"), I just get a blank page.  There is no error message at
all.  If I right-click the page and look at the ...

My VB application needs be run in a directory other than my source
since it looks for some other dlls in the current directory.  I could
make the exe and put in the other dir, but it would be hard to debug
the code unless I put out a lot debug messages in the code.  Is there

I have the following code:
Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim Name As String
Dim CalDay As Integer

I need help with VB code to increment a non-standard number field.
For example:
Pkg_ID=2008.1000
I need to have the first value for Pkg_ID=2008.1000.  Then I need the

Any software recommendation that detects dependency ?
Thanks

Would anybody know how to return the software version number via code.
Thanks

In vb6 I created some codewhich depends on the OS(Windows 95, Windows 98,
Windows XP, etc.
I used the environ Function and the sysinfo.ocx control to get the operating
system.

Hi I have developed an application that I have been running against MS SQL
Server 2000 for several years with no problems. I have tested it against
several servers with success. But on this new server I am testing it on it
fails after updated statements.

Is it possible to create DSN in runtime.