VB Forum / General / January 2007

Hi. I wrote a VB app that shells out to a few software applications and
sends keystrokes - essentially doing what a user would do if he were sitting
in front of the computer. It fires off at midnight. O/S is XP.
This has been working for 2 plus years in more than 40 locations ...

How can a program determine if another specific program is loaded.
Stan Hilliard

If the ActiveX component uses Free threading model the VB exe works
fine (it uses the event call back). If the component uses Both
threading model the VB exe crashes when the event is fired. So I wonder
what threading model does a VB exe uses? From the problem I guess it is

This is my code (id is a integer, fso is a file system object):
   id = Fso.OpenTextFile(App.Path & "\num.txt", ForReading).ReadAll
   Fso.OpenTextFile(App.Path & "\num.txt", ForWriting).Write id + 1
num.txt is: 32767

Thanks for looking to help me.  Below is some code from a button.  The
code works for the most part, only 1 or two stubborn bugs to fix, but
I cannot seem to get rid of them.
The purpose of this code is to parse a text file, strip out all

Hi: Can any one please give me an example with Byval in a function
Public Function RemCurrentUser(ByVal cUser As String)
Thanks,
Anna.

In the sample VB application for  Filestream.BeginWrite Method, there is no
NEW implementation on the AsyncCallBack Object and sample below calls for
declaring both the "State" object and the AsynCallBack object.  I added the
Imports System.IO, System.Threading, and Microsoft ...

Ok I am creating a game for my VB6 class as a final project. As a way to quit
I used
Private Sub Form_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)
If KeyAscii = 27 Then Unload Me

Greetings -- I've got a huge (15tb, 170Million file) file system that I need
to enumerate into a SQL db. scanning the FS seems straight forward using
either a custom recursive function to walk the tree or just using the
My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFiles to get a collection of all ...

I need to pass 2 values to a sub procedure. Here is what I am testing with:
sub Form_Load()
TheAlert("Fred", "123 Main")
end sub

I am looking for a simple program to turn on and off Dell projectors with
its rs232 port. The manual is very cryptic to me, and also Dell support was
not be able to help me. I did not know where else to go, so | am posting my
problem on this group.

Picked this information up recently from another newsgroup.
http://www.google.com/codesearch
http://www.google.com/help/faq_codesearch.html
http://www.google.com/codesearch/addcode

could anybody please tell me what I'm doing wrong?
I am trying to set a window as the topmost window in front of all other
windows (not only in my application).
Also, this form is borderless, and shall not steal focus from other

I thought I would try the following
cDllClass calls fDllForm
fDllForm receives events from cDllClass
fDllForm sends events back to cDllClass

Gents (and ladies if there are any),
First, thank you for all the replies in my last Vista thread.  The
information was valuable and I even learned a few things.  :-)
I have another issue I wanted to get some clarification on, if possible,