VB Forum / General / May 2006

  im passing an xml file from vb6 to a web service made in c#. which
give the response from the oracle database
The vb6 project has to wait for the response untill it is arrived.
The working is file till the response is give quickly but,

Iam Suzzane i was trying to calculate working hrs between startdate and
enddate excluding weekends and public holidays, If startdate and
enddate are same then my function will use startime and endtime entered
by the user, but somehow it dosent seem to work. Any help is greatly

I have to run a process in a shell synchronously, and use the output
of that process.  
The output should be a text file.  
I'm using a function that makes Win API calls to control the process,

I'm trying to build a UserControl, but I'm not sure if a UserControl can do
what I want it to do - perhaps someone can advise how I should proceed?
I have an MDI app. with a large number of child forms, one for maintaining
each of many different types of object in the app's object ...

I have the following problem which works but, apparently, its very bad
programming practice.
- I create a table (Access) to store some calculation results because they
are too numerous for memory storage.

I have, unsuccessfully, been trying to solve, what I thought, was a simple
problem.  I’ve used several resources (VB6 books, on-line help, MSDN
knowledgebase and newsgroups, “brute force”, etc.) to no avail.
I have VB6 code that has several “TextBox” components on the same form.  

i need somebody that can teach me a bit about VB6...

Suppose i include a jpeg image as a custom resource, i tried this:
picture1.picture=loadrespicture(101,"custom")
it said type mismatch. i tried to write the resource to a file in app
directory and then load it using loadpicture. it worked. the problem is

does anyboday know what is this file MSSTKPRP.DLL, when i try to make a
setup using P&D wizard it is in the files list.
thanks,
abhishek

I have a library of hash routines that I am using to implement copy
protection in my program.  My application would generate a product ID
and a username that the user enters, then they would provide that info
to us and we would give them a serial number.

How I do to open a pdf (c:\myPDF.pdf) from a VB 6.0 form.
I try with Shell function someting like
Call Shell("c:\myPDF.pdf", vbMaximizedFocus)
but raise this error "Error procedure call or arguments"

Is there a quick way to have an FSO object to iterate through all the files
in a folder and write it out to text file?  Thanks.
Ben

I have a VB6 application and I want to create a folder path if it does not
exist.  However, the path I need is something like this "P:\SMITH,
JOHN\RO29186".  In other words, I need to create the SMITH, JOHN folder
first, then the RO29186 next.  I tried using Mkdir with the full ...

If I declare a fixed length string in VB6, as in:
 Dim strBatch As String * 10
what type of ASCII characters will fill the string if I don't put anything
into it but then use the variable to write to a text file?

I am baffled! I can compile a .vbp file by right-mouse-click and choosing
make. But when I try compiling using command line, I get the following error:
nexpected error occurred in code generator or linker.  
Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 6.00.8168