VB Forum / General / January 2006

We have an old Visual Basic 6 application that we have that contains
some data of interest.
We also have a C++ application that requires access to that data.
In the .NET world we would probably provide a web service from the VB

Can someone point me in a good direction for writting a driver in my
VB app to handle a USB HID device. Right now the data from the device
is read into the system as keyboard data but I need to be able to read
the incoming data independantly of the keyboard.

or it is not?
Problem:
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knowing the value name of the key in the Windows registry I need to know

I'm attempting to write to the registry with the following:
Dim oRegistry, sKey, sValue, sString
sKey = "SOFTWARE\Project\settings"
sValue = "OnTop"

A basic question. How does for - next work - why can't I use Next i (see
bottom)?
   For i = 1 To NumElements
       ' Get a handle to the Process.

Hi, all. I have some questions:
Is it possible to use SQL Express 2005 for an application in Visual Basic 6.0?
Since, the objective is not to installthe whole SQL Express system in the
end-user machine, what should be installed, for the VB 6 Application?

We have all our software written in VB6 and at least for a year we won't be
able to transfer to .Net
Now we need two extra developer sites, and this makes me wonder... can one
still buy VB6 licenses?

Working in VB6, I am trying to determine whether some other process has a
file open.  As a test, I've tried opening the same file for output (using the
Open statement) in two different VB6 processes, and surprisingly, I don't
always get a "file already open" error.  I get similar ...

Hopefully someone can definitively answer this.
My dev machine has VS C++ 6.0, VS.NET 2K3, and VS.NET 2K5. All is well.
Now I need to examine lots of old VB 6.0 code.
1. Can VB6.0 live side-by-side all of these studios?

I have the following problem with the code behind:
Let  say that filenaam$ = "u:\data\map.wtd" where  u:  is a network drive
When running this code whithout the "Sleep 100" code line, it takes about
30 seconds before ending this code (3 lines of text)

I need to know whether the registry key is  a string or DWORD.
How to do that?
Penelope

I have a mysterious problem with my VB application.
I have two tables in access which represent two outlook folders. They
contain the emails in these folders. Now I have a query (called Query1)
that displays the items which exists in both folders:

I have a program developed in Visual Basic 6 that uses an Access database.  
The program has almost 500 users now and someone called today asking about a
run-time error I have never seen before.  It is:
"Run-Time Error 3706: Provider cannot be found. may not be properly

I was just wondering if we can change the default buttons caption in msgbox
like for vbYesNo which displays 2 buttons YES and NO to something like SAVE
and CANCEL.
Thanks

Could anyone tell me if this is possible and if so how to do it.
I am creating a database to do incident reports in. With date, time, name,
type of incident fields and so on.    There is also going to be a narrative
field, what I would like to do for the narrative field is have it ...