VB Forum / General / January 2007

I am on vb6 sp6 and am writing a util to display all users logged into a
server {2k & 2k3}. The code so far is:
strComputer= "TheServerName"
set objWMIService = getobject("winmgmts:" &

Which one will be better:
create an array of BYTES or of  INTEGERS
for the purpose of finding the average value of the array?
There are between 50 000 to 100 000 elements of array and I am looking for

Iam am writing a sub classed control in VB6. The messages that I need to
handle come from a 3rd party DLL. The documentation for the DLL has some C++
examples that state:
IMPORTANT

Hi Friends
At my workplace we are using a custom browser developed in VB6.
Everything works fine, we are able to set it as the default
browser.When we click on any html file it opens in our browser alright.

I am trying to show a VB form from within an ActiveX DLL but it just seems
to hang on me.
I have a menu that uses a dll and I want a form to be displayed from that
dll when I choose the menu item. As I said it just seems to hang on me.

I would like to detect if the Ctrl Key is being held down while using
dragndrop in VB6.
If the user is not holding the Ctrl Key when draggingndropping then a
normal dragndrop occurs, but if they are pressing the Ctrl Key while

There's a function called ReadProcessMemory that'll dump the contents
of some processes memory to a buffer.  Is there a function that I can
use to actually search the process for something specific?
Alternatively, can I use string functions (such as InStr) on the buffer?

I am having trouble getting the GetLastInputInfo API to work in VB.NET 2005.  
When I make the API call the value of dwTime is always returned as 0. I am
expecting the API to return the Tick Count of the last Mouse/KB Movement. I
can get it to work in VB6 but not VB.Net.

I have a farily small (15 forms) Visual Basic 3 project which I need to
upgrade to VB6. However, my VB3 disks seem to be lost, and the files
are saved in binary format, which means they cannot be opened in VB6.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to find a copy of VB3? Or is there

My company's departments take notes during their weekly meeting and one way
or the other the notes wind up stored on a pc in either MS Word format or
wordpad or notepad, etc.
What I am being asked to do is write an app that will accept a

Can anyone out there tell me how an application built using the Service
Framework in .NET can be run as standalone application?
Thanks

Hi everyone!  I am new so I hope I am posting my question in the right
place.  I have created a form in Office 2007 using Visual Basic Editor.
I am trying to make two lines line up regardless of the number of
characters before the fields.  Example:

How can I make an About Dialog for my ActiveX Controls in VB6?
Thanks in advance

How do I tell what a Variant has been initialized as?
Dim vThingy as Variant
vThingy = cdec(0)   ' obviously set to a decimal type.
But some functions return variants but do not specify what type it is.

All,
On a Windows Server 2003 machine joined to a domain, I'm seeing some
inconsistent behavior with Explorer.exe when I log on to the machine.  
Logging on with a domain admin account, explorer.exe appears to just hang