VB Forum / General / July 2006

So far a fwe days of google searching have given me no results. I'm not sure
if someone here can help. In my company we are always updating old documents
that are stored in multiple locations with differnet names. For example all
of the following files are the same / or need to ...

I have a variable in VB6 which I need to make thread safe. How do I do that?

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I have an application that used Word 97 to output a document based on info
stored in a VB6 program. It has been working perfectly until our company
decided to upgrade to Word 2003.
Now my users are getting errors as Word97 has been removed from their

Can VB6 set a reference to a DLL, programmically, at runtime?

Is there a way to determine if a file is open and/or locked on another
computer on the network.  If so is there a way to remotely close it?

       Char135 = Chr(135)
To avoid string concatenation problem my code uses Mid statement
           Mid(lName, NexPos + 1) = Trim(Title)
           NexPos = NexPos + Len(Trim(Title))

Is there some existing code to sort a Type Array?
aStoreData(i).Store
aStoreData(i).AllocPct
I need to sort by AllocPct.

I should write a script with vbs which calls a webservice with the mssoap
client. If I call a service which returns only one value there is no
problem. But if I try to call a webservice which returns an array of objects
i get some problems.

Having a little problem grasping this one. I found several references to
LockWindowUpdate(hWnd) to make an object (supposedly) non-editable without
the gray text effect of .Enabled=False. It appears however to still allow
the user to enter text; it just doesn't display the changes ...

I have wrote a small application, and am wondering how i can display the
Version (major, minor, build and revision) in a window. The main problem is i
dont know how to reference these properties.
Any ideas you clever people?

            My loop routine has very extensive task to do and I want to
eliminate everything, what can cause even slight delay in code execution.
What I hesitate at,  is this piece of code:
           Mid(lName, NexPos + 1) = Trim(Title)

Is there a way (other than with FileDateTime etc.) to read the file
properties directly from a file?
Or is there a way to read all the file data (header data etc. included), not
just the data that can be

What's the trick to getting forms compiled into a DLL to act as an MDIChild?
I'm firing the DLL from an MDI Form. The DLL's form is marked MDIChild =
True. But when the DLL is launched and the form is Show'd (whether vbModal
or vbModeless) I get a runtime error "No MDI Form ...

My project insists on changing its References to the DLLs rather than
retaining the VBPs.
I'm using a MDI EXE as the base project. The various forms are (now) being
built as DLLs. I've grouped the MDI and the forms into a project group.