VB Forum / General / December 2006

Hi to all,
I need to open the Excel application programmatically, create a Workbook and
some Sheets, write to them and stop working "without" closing the Excel
application... following some steps:

Newbie vb6.
Toolbar1 is located on Form1 and includes 3 buttons. A private sub on Form1
controls the function of these buttons such as this:
Private Sub Toolbar1_ButtonClick(ByVal Button As MSComctlLib.Button)

I am looking for a way (API) to tell how long it has been since the system
has resumed from hibernation.
Basically I have a scheduled task set to wake the computer from hibernation.
I don't want the task to run if the computer is currently on (not

I was trying to use udt instead of collection because I can't seem to set
value of an item in a collection
per other post titled"Weird Error"
now trying to use udt I get the following compile error:

Here is the threatened (er... promised) new thread.
Here is the code
Private Sub Common()
Open "C:\claims\data\claimdat.dat" For Random As #1 Len = 255 ' name and

Is there an easy way to reverse the assignments.
Ex.
a=b
c=d

I'm having a great time learning vb from scratch and trying to read the old
files I created with QucikBASIC long ago. It's a new way of thinking and I'm
enjoying it. I have managed to display all the string information, access
records, etc. But I am stuck on one thing. In the QB ...

i need to change the below array so that it is dynmanic...how can i do
this?
i.e there wont always be 4 values.
Sub MapSelectedProperties()

I am working with VB6 and XP Home Edition.
I experience trouble when trying to access the windows registry and my app
databases when the user has limited permission (i.e., has not system
administrator permission).

Let's put an end to your rigorous search for softwarePS, sending money
and getting cheated, paying for evaluation versions in the name of full
versions etc.. You can get almost all full working versions under one
roof.

I am trying to embed a Vista manifest in a VB6 .exe and getting an error
message from mt.exe:
"temp.manifest:general error c1010070:Failed to load and parse the manifest"
The version of mt.exe is 6.0.4071.0

If you are, please let me know how you installed the thing.
I need to automate a file upload process through a web page from VB in
Excel, and I'm told the easiest [ha!] way to do it is using cURL. I
have downloaded cURL, libcurl and the VB bindings for libcurl. But

I'm using VB.NET in VS 2005.
I have a class named ClassA, and a subclass ClassA1 which inherits from
ClassA.
Is there any way an object variable of type ClassA can be cast to a variable

I have a VB6 application that displays a colour image using
StretchDIBits (I know, we Canadians spell COLOUR wrong). The image is a
bayer pattern bitmap that is 1280 pixels x 1024 pixels in raw format.
In my application, my PictureBox cannot be this large, so I made it

What is the best (free) way to send mail from a VB6 program without using
the standard mail components (MAPISession and MAPIMessages).
thx,
Bart