VB Forum / General / September 2006

I need to develop a VB App that will send commands and receive message
to/from an object. This object is to be provided by an Active EXE, and used
to control an external instrument via USB. (This ActiveX is provided by the
instrument vendor). Due to some reason, we found that if ...

This is what it looks like, and I'm sure we have all seen it before:
http://www.geoceanis.com/hexcolor.shtml
I am wondering how to reference this control or otherwise call it using API?
Thanks in Advance...

(Working with VB 6)
Application A, Application B, Application C
All StandAlone Exe. Not third party stuff - Meaning: I have total
Control over the 3 applications, I can incorporate any functions,

Does any one know an easy way of drawing a transparent box to overlie a
textbox, as a kind of selection box.
Lightweight controls such as shape, image do not work as they are drawn
under the textbox.

How can I Work With "Microsoft Direct Speech Recognition"

What is your preferred way of detecting/capturing whether a VB6 app's
ADO Update, Append, or Deletion of a Microsoft Access 2002 has
triggered an Error in the Access database?
For example, do you check the ADO "Records Affected" parameter after a

I'm not exactly a VB 6 Programmer, but I need to create a C#.NET 2.0
dll that is callable from VB 6.. The C# dll calls a web service.. here
is the source for the DLL
using System;

Is it possible to run a vbscript  that calls 4 other vbscripts and then
waits until each script runs through completion before it runs the next
script.  An example would be something like the following:
Content of MainScript.vbs

Hi Can someone help I am trying to list all duplicated file in a drive into a
listbox, I list folder files but not sure how get duplicated files.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Charles

I have a custom ActiveX control built with VB6, packaged for internet
deployment with the Package and Deployment Wizard, and distributed over
http to users of my intranet application.
Sometimes when I make changes to the control, and recompile and

I want to give user the choise of date and time. So I used
Datetimepicker.
With this I was only able to pick up date selected by user. There is no
choise available to select time in the control. I want user to choose

In a VB6 program I have a browser form and within it a webbrowser object. By
using the following code I can load a web page that is in a file into this
webbrowser.
   StartingAddress = "C:\testbrwwrp\xxx.htm"

When a combobox is on vbComboDropDownList, you can only select from the
list.  WHen you first load the screen there is no entry in the combobox, you
have to select th drop down to see all items in the box.  My question is,
how can I reset the combobox back to the state of when ...

Hi I am stuggling a little bit as i am a bigginer in prog.
i am creating an application where i enter current date: sept 8 2006
(for eg)
i am looking for the code which than calculate the date for :- 20 th

I'm running some VB code that is cycling through a ton of data 17 million +
examples and returning a result. I'd like to save the data ever 10000 or so
test, I know I could just setup another counter variable but I seem to
remember a few year ago using the Mod operation for such ...