VB Forum / General / June 2006

After installing a new build of our app on various test machines, then
running the app, we keep getting the Windows Installer popups when we go to
open one of the app's dialogs, or after closing the app and then reopening
it.  Eventually, the Windows Installer requests the location ...

How to keep selected row (or Active Cell) enclosed in rectangular frame when
another window has focus?
Jack

How do you compile your code to protect against decompilers?
Anyone have any step-by-step examples?

Public WithEvents moExcel As Excel.Application
Set moExcel = GetObject(, "Excel.Application")
In the case when user closes Excel spreadsheet how can my app receive that
event?

Can anyone help me with an example to capture the client data area sent from a
server over the internet to a client exe, using a separate vb6 program
running on the same machine as the client.  
Thanks in advance.

I've been trying to get a very basic HTML Help file going - two HTML files,
two Chapters (w/o HTML) with one page in each, and a simple index with two
entries. No special settings for the Project, the Contents, or the Index -
plain Jane just as HHW gives them to me. The HTML was ...

I have a picture loaded into an IPictureDisp object. Why does the width come
back as 26.5 times the actual width of the bitmap? I've done a search and
turned up very little and the MS help is unhelpful as usual. hmmm time for a
rant me thinks. The help file just states:

I have code (using the leave event) in a textbox which prevents the user
from leaving the box if it is blank.  I would like the user to be able to
click on the [close] button of the form and close that form without firing
the leave event in that text box.  An answer would be ...

I'd like to replace an icon in an frx using VB6 code.
Ideally the VB6 code would open the frx, load the icon from disk, then store
the icon into the frx and close it. Something like:
Dim Frx as VB.BinaryForm

This is a rather complicated matter.
I want to create some sort of analysis tool by running a query and
return a scored match.
So for every field in the query I want to add a score.

Can anyone tell me the catch in VB.NET 2005. I've been trying to figure it
out from the marketing gobbledegook. The biggest catch i can find is the
reference to one click deployment (as meaningless a phrase as i can think
of). does that mean i can't create a regular setup ...

I have an App made using VB6. Its Setup.exe, Setup.lst and *.Cab files are
put into a CD-ROM and shipped to our customers. No Autorun is included in the
CD-ROM.
Normally, the user needs to open the CD-ROM using Windows Explorer and

I need an invisible character in a combobox to split up two values I
use in there,
so later on I can split them up again:
strSQL = "SELECT IIf(IsNull(UnitNumber),UnitName,UnitNumber & chr$(10)

In my application I want to lock the system after certain period of time if
the keyboard/mouse is idle.
Any DLLs or APIs very much appreciated.
Thanks

God this is crzy.......
I am trying to use AppActivate to send commands to cmd window and i m
getting Run Time Error 5, Inavlid Procedure Call or Argument
Here is the code snippet:-