VB Forum / General / November 2005

      i need and example of a thread programming. i have never it ..
and have no idea of how this should be done , creating multiple thread
in programming is just a theory for me, till now ..
please help

I'm trying to write a fairly simple program that will map and unma
(disconnect) network drives.
When running the program it gives an Err 42 Bad DLL calling convention
I know the program is "calling a routine in a DLL that's being passe

I have a string  with a value :   Dec
Is there a function that can determine that this is the 12th month.
and return the integer value?
I have to compare 3 character month strings and determine which one is greater

I have had to install a new motherboard on my multi-boot system. The OS I
normally use is Win 2000 on drive Q: (no jokes please!). Naturally I had to
reload the OS and reinstall all programs that I use.
Even though I have reinstalled the VB6 and the MSDN help files, VB6 says it

When I try to print a pdf from VB using shell with /t option, Reader
(AcroRd32) opens, his window come on top for a few second, launch the
print process, then disappear.
But since my VB program is used to print many PDF without user

Hey all,
I'm making a program that downloads my email.  Problem is the email
contains carriage returns.
When my winsock _dataArrival event is triggered, I use winsock.getData

ReadFileEx is declared like this:
Declare Function ReadFileEx Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hFile As Long, lpBuffer As
Any, ByVal nNumberOfBytesToRead As Long, lpNumberOfBytesRead As Long,
lpOverlapped As OVERLAPPED, lpCompletionRoutine As

Guys,
   I am looking for a way to view PDF files inside a Visual Basic 6
application with out purchasing any software. I currently have some
applications that do this by opening adobe reader when the program opens,

I am being asked to take "ownership" of another developer's VB6 app.
When I try to open up the project and look at certain forms, I get an
"Errors during load" message which refers me to a log file.  In the log
files I get errors something like:

I made a control a few years ago, and have since used it in many VB
applications, as well as MS Access. There are two versions. One uses it's
own recordset, and the other is unbound, requesting info through events from
the main application. As a multi-column grid it will facilitate ...

I finally got my sample add in to work with  my Word 2003.  I'm working with
the sample on MSDN.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dninvb00/html/i
vb0085.asp
Now I want it to be able to work with Word 2000 as well.  Two things

I have a project that declares several functions from multiple .dlls,
including a few user32 APIs, and functions from a 3rd party .dll.
My trouble comes when I try to declare functions from a .dll file that I
wrote in VC7.  Whenever I run a line of code that calls my library

I want to FTP from a VB application with extensive logging.  For eg: -
I want to log the number of bytes send from source to destination etc.
Can some one please shed some light on how I can go about doing that?
Any help will be very much appreciated.

This is referring to the Office Excel VB. Excel VB claims it is just like VB.
I am wondering where on the internet how I can find out whether a function
existed for a particular version of Office Excel VB?
For example, I am using Office 2003 but my clients are using Office 95, or

How can I auto resize a column to fit the length of a cell's content using
the Excel Application object