VB Forum / General / February 2006

I am using VBA for Outlook, and want to capture an event in an
InternetExplorer object.  I know in .NET I can make a statement like
this:
Private WithEvents IE As InternetExplorer

I'm having trouble getting an ActiveX exe to launch an external dll (I need
the exe so that the process can run in a separate thread and allow my VB app
to continue unimpeded).
Ken Halter pointed me to this example of an ActiveX exe wrapper:

I know that I can make a collection of simple types, but can Visual
Basic 6 make a collection of structures?
For instance, with a collection I can do  gSymbolCollection.Add "@ES"
But can I do:

I am new to Visual Basic so I have a question about VB Apps.  I want to
create an app the appends MSWord files together.  I would like to be able to
drag a Word file to a Visual Basic app that is represented by an icon and
drop the Word file on the icon.  Each time I drop a Word ...

I want to extract all unique, non-blank entries from a column in an
array into another array. The initial array contains thousands of rows
and the column in question contains 12 character alphanumeric codes or
blanks.

I've been using code like that below to resize forms.
However, I just noticed something that leads me to believe that there must
be a better way.
I usually run with a resolution of 1280 x 1024.

I hope this is the correct place to post this
Create Field1 text(10) , bit ;
How do i tell the bit section if it is
yes no or on of

I need to write a program in VB6 to list all of the available COM ports on a
computer and allow the operator to change the COM port number. I can get the
list of available COM ports using the WMI but how to I change the COM port
number?

Hey guys, I'm just a beginner and I need some help on this. I am writing
a vb6 program. I want that during the runtime, when an error raise, i
want that the error message will also be added into a text file saved in
a specific path. How am i gonna do that? Any little help will be ...

What is the call to display the Windoes shutdown dialog box (as if i
pressed shutdown on the Start menu)

I am working in VB6 and looked on my local MSDN and cannot find any help
on how to make an FTP connection in VB.  Does anyone know where to lead
me in the proper direction and/or how to do this?
Thanks, help is much appreciated.

Can a shell exec be done synchronously (with code waiting for completion
before continuing), or is it necessary to construct some type of "monitoring"
loop?
Thanks.

I have a userform with a number of ComboBoxes on it.  As of now there is no
existing data to load into these boxes.  What I would like to do is have a
recordset updated/created when the user enters information and subsequently
made available the next time the form is used.  As ...

Trying to set the FontSize of a TextBox and CommandButton via a variable.
I understand the datatype for this is currency, but whatever datatype I
choose I get:
Runtime error 380: Invalid property value

I need to scrape the data from a few thousand web pages.  When I bring
up the page in IE it shows the information I want.  However when I use
Inet to DL it for processing, I get the CCS front end instead of the
information.  Is there a way around this?  I need it to effectively