VB Forum / General / May 2006

In my program I want to be able to save the contents of a text box or
rich text box to a file in plain text, not rich text.  I also want to
be able to name the file with the extension .z80, so I can run it
thurogh TASM.  

I have a VB6 application where I have developed a UserControl that has a menu.
The UserControl is used in two places.
Firstly, it is placed on an SSTAb control, which forms part of the main user
interface.

I am using the MAPISession and MAPIMessages controls to add email
functionality to a app running on a client server.
Problem is whenever the app tries to send a notification email through my
app the msoutlook box appears saying that firstly another application is

i am using vb6.  i am looking for some type of collection.  where i can have
a key and then some information.
so i have an unique id.  and then some info.  i want to be able to lookup
the unique key and get the info.

Have you been trying to set SummaryInformation for files on Windows XP
with NTFS using dsofile.dll? Getting Error Number -2147217142 or
Err.Number = 70 messages when setting a SummaryProperties property?
I have been getting the error when the file does not have any Summary

Has anyone already done some work (or even just research) in this area?
A trivial demo app can show that Now() isn't very precise:
Option Explicit
Private Sub Form_Resize()

When I launch VB or an executable created in VB I am getting a warning in the
Event Viewer:
Detection of product '{8041BEBA-C558-4480-B7A5-5A3507022E17}', feature
'Complete' failed during request for component

hi I am a noobie at VB6 I have a listbox and a textbox on my form1
what am trying to do is have all list1 items go to the text1 box
I have text1 set for MultiLine = True
the code that I keep trying looks like this

how do I track an event when user presses and holds arrow keys? I only get
one KeyDown event which is probably true, however I would like to get
multiple events (just like many symbols would appear when somebody is typing
the text and holds the button) depending on how long user ...

I have used vb6 to write a DLL.
The problem is that I need it to release from memory when it is finished or
on error.
How can I do this?

I want to check whether a given user has Registry & Write Privileges in
VB.
i tried NT4AcceptSecurityContext2 function but it's for user validation
only,but i want to check for privileges too..

Anyone good at low-level data manipulation?
I'm working on an app that reads 16-bit signed integers in Motorola
(MSB-first) format, and needs to swap the two bytes into Intel
(LSB-first) order and return them as a Single.  Currently, it uses the

What would be the fastest way to sort large (up to a few million rows) 2-D
variant arrays?
I am working in Excel VBA, but never found a good answer on this in the
Excel programming group.

In need of a way to check whether or not a person logged in every day within
a week (week starts Monday through Sunday).  Does anyone know of a good way
to accomplish this?
In the table below, User #2 did log in each day within the week.  I would

I am now using vb6 having upgraded from vb5. I have a dbGrid that was
created using vb5. When I now go to delete a columm or add a columm in its
properties it looks okay on the screen. When the program is run the old
properties are used.