VB Forum / General / February 2006

I have a VB.Net application in VS2005 that communicates to a ATL written in
VC++ loaded as a project resource. The communications with the ATL DLL
library work well in the VB primary thread. But if I try and communicate in
the same way with the ATL in a secondary thread (System ...

I have a strange question about ADO performance:
I have a program in Visual Basic 6.0, that connects to Pervasive.SQL via
DSN, and then executes "select * from bd". Then, it slides through
Recordset:

Is there any way you can get the outline control to accept a right click as
an item selection mechanism? Basically, I have an Outline control with a
popup menu. Programming it for a right click is fine but the item has to be
selected first.

When running this code in VB2003
Sub guidtest()
Dim gstring As String
Dim gid As Guid

My application will print on pre-printed forms that expect 10 cpi & 6 lpi.  
On my new HP4345 I've found that Courier in 12 point does that.  I also want
to print on my older HP4100 but the VB Printer object doesn't accept or list
Courier for that printer.  If I use the printer's ...

I have a telephone system that records all conversations as a standard
WAV file. This Wav files are good for training purposes but no good for
legal use.
To make them usable in a court of law the recordings must be in an

I am looking for a way to key installations to a single computer. Is there
an API call or something that gives a unique identifier for a specific
machine in any version of windows? Preferably a key that identifies the
mother board and won't be affected by other hardware changes.

Are there DLL's or system calls for USB ports in Windows XP?

Hi, i'm new to vb stuff and i need fill an Excel Sheet with some data
from XML files and then i need to print that sheet to a .pdf file. And
doing this from a .hta application.
I do everything and i have a macro in the excel sheet that do this:

I have several list boxes on a form. I want to fill the first one at run
time, and based on the user's selection from that list box, fill the second
one, and so on. If there is only one item in a list box, I want the program
to select that item automatically and move on to the ...

Is there a way to run a progam "in background" so that even if it does
not have focu it can intercept keystrokes to launch a program (I want
to be able to change the screen resolution with  a single keystroke no
matter what program has focus)

What language would I use in a VB6 project which would cause a shell
command to be issued every 24 hours?
Thanks in advance.

Can anyone tell me why this statement takes 10 sec to run
Sub Command_Click()
    SetDefaultPrinter "HP LaserJet 6P"  _
        "winspool", "Ne03:"

I am using XP Pro with VB6.0 SP5.
I have a small program that I have Written and
the client wants to install it on a Tablet.
Question: Is there anything special or will the program run

I'm using ShellExecute inVB6 to launch a powerpointveiwer presentation
like this;
ShellExecute Me.hwnd, "Open", "D:\play.bat", vbNullString, "D:\",
SW_SHOWNORMAL