VB Forum / General / December 2005

I've got a rather unusual situation with my code.  I've googled changing
regional date settings and noticed a few threads in which Rick and Ken
responded along with others.  I totally agree that changing the regional
settings is a bad idea, so I'm hoping that somebody can tell me ...

Between Cisco, Intel, and now Microsoft, India will get
injected with at least $3.8 billion.
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Hi. I'm really no good at using the API stuff but i open a number of
processes from my applications using ShellExecute and now I want to close
them from the application.
From searching I have come across TerminateProcess but I'm really not sure

hi... i'm a super newbie in this... but i'd really appreciate it if anyone
could help me here...
i'm trying to write a simple macro for excel, which goes something like
this...

I want to update the value (caption) of a label box acting on a series
of radio buttons interted in a Word document.
I've used the following procedure:
Private Sub OptionButton4_Click()

The question is in the subject ;O)
"How to detect if an ActiveX component (not a DLL) is registered on a local
machine ?"
I sought the solution with Google, but any result.

          I try this line in module:
pubic totalbyte as Integer
but it can't pass compliler....
could you please advice ?

I've a little app which invokes
   l_sFolder = Dir$(m_sPath, vbDirectory)
I'm finding that it is returning, certainly on XP, zip files as well as
folders.

I use the wininet API to FTP files.
InternetOpen
InternetConnect
FtpGetFile

          If I assign:
---------------------------------
Dim buffer() as byte
...

Is it true that all logical drives are merely mappings to the root of the
drive?
For example, I can use the GetFreeDisklSpace API to return
SectorsPerCluster, BytesPerSector, FreeClusters, and TotalClusters for both

I'm trying to write a few quicktime scripts. I'm having trouble getting to
all the routines that I think I should be. I drill to the call I want with
the object explorer then when I use the fully qualified name it dosent find
it. It appears that I'm able to access all the calls ...

           These code can't work. Could you please advice ?
Why can't I send a single byte by:
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
dim a as byte

My problem is with Source code it self and not in installation.  I developed
an application using VB6 on windows XP machine. Later I installed SP6 for
VB6. The Application is running fine.
But now I want to open the Porject on the machine having Windows 98. And

I need to set up a list of odbc connections to a back end database server
for a group of colleagues.  I would like to write a short script where they
can run it themselves and set them up.  Can you share some thoughts and code?
Thanks in advance.