VB Forum / General / September 2006

I am a beginner and I am using visual basic 6.0.
I am asked to implement a global time out functionality for an existing
UI.
The requirement is : 1. A toolkit developed using VB 6.0 is available

Can I use the SaveSetting and GetSetting functions for custom information
for my app?
What I'm thinking of is when I install the app on a user's system, if they
have the network drive mapped to a different drive letter than I do, it

Searching hi and low for a _fast_ function to do this.
I had found a quick and easy method to do this using the GetPixel function,
but it is very slow doing it pixel by pixel.
1) Get Pixel

The app I'm currently working on doesn't close right.  It's the same result
if I run the app in the code builder, or build the .exe and run it.  When I
hit my cmdClose, my form goes away, but the .exe is still listed in Task
Mgr.

I have created a large VB project with some .bas files and some .cls
files.
Can I create a ActiveX dll in VB and put all my bas and cls files in
there, so my

Is there an API to retrieve the friendly name for the display driver
(graphics card)?
eg "GeForce4 MX 420" just as displayed on tab of Display settings.

Have a look at my VB6 source code analyzer. The aim is to detect lacks
of sens or mitakes like division by 0, overflow or underflow,
unreachable if conditions and so on.
A VB6 add-in lets you transmit source files, you'll get the answer back

Guess my VB6 apps won't be making the cut.
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By Nate Mook, BetaNews

We did receive a large csv file. I need to convert the CSV file to a
recordset in VB6 but the CSV file is big an has more than 256 columns.
The file cannot be opend with OLEDB (which we normaly use). I can't
find a solution can anyone help? Should I use line input for opening

I'm using VB6LE and would like to know if, and where, there is a list of
available Windows API functions, with information listed for the
arguments they take. I understand that most/all are written in C and the
arguments need to be sent in hex.

Windows 98 SE, VB6
I get an error trying to create an ADODB recordset in Access, so I ran
my Component Checker and it couldn't find an installed version!
Apparently my MDAC got corrupted somehow. So I tried to install version

I know programatically adjusting user-configured items is typically frowned
upon, but in this case I've got a single-purpose machine with Win98
installed on it that I need to have a consistent taskbar size and position
on. This machine basically needs to reset itself to a standard ...

Is there a way to convert a VFP app to a VB.Net app?

Hello, I've inherited a project that uses a super-old version of
ActiveReports (and has about a million reports).  The customer is asking
whether there is a way, they can click on a piece of text in the report
viewer (like an account number) and the program would take them to ...

I have a series of classes in VB6 across 3 dlls that are being used to
communicate with a larger application and I'm trying to propogate
unhandled errors in these dlls back to the application level so that
they can be logged into an error log by the application error handler