VB Forum / General / February 2007

VB6 Fails to scale high on DCOM components

Hope I am posting in the right spot, if not yell at me and let me know
where I should post at. I'm developing a multipurpose application and
part of it needs to insert some data into an excel sheet. It runs fine
on my machine which has excel 2003 but when I run it on a computer

Hey everyone
I'm attempting to write a simple 2d game using the windows graphics
API's.  I've done it before using pset(), but it's slow and flickers,
so I want to do it right.

This is collection/class coding question. I have a "orderItems collection"
class  and an "orderItem" class. I have to read from DB and load the all the
order items. I am not quite sure if what I have is done the right way,
although it works the way I expect.

I just got a bug report from a user. The code was like this:
x = string("0", y)
where x is a string and y was meant to be the number of "0"s to put into x.
The parameters are back to front which was my mistake but the compiler

I want to determine the default windows printer in VB 6.  I can loop through
the Printers collection successfully and get the ID number and name of each
printer, but I don't know how to determine which one is the default printer.  
I take any help I can get.  TIA.

I'm working on a little app that uses the file change notify api's to detect
when new files are added to a directory and then reads in the text from each
new file into a textbox. All of the files are comming from a mainframe
through an SNA server and many of them have some goofy ...

I'm not too sure how to phrase this, but I would like to use a variable
whose name is not known in advance...  However, during the execution of the
code, the name of the variable will be determined and stored in a string...
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My company has an application currently built as an Access Data
Project and we're beginning to explore the possibility of migrating
to .Net.  Unfortunately, we don't have any resources familiar with
this process so I was hoping someone could point me in the direction

I want to save, and load an Access File to the CD Drive, I was trying to do
this with FSO and it did not work. from the forum Dave O said try Shell API
and use the code shown below to Copy the File, When i try to call the
Function I get an error :- Argument Not Optional, can ...

I’m doing a shell and wait with vbNormalFocus to a driver installation
utility (not mine).  It displays a message box behind my form.  Since
it’s behind my form it appears to never complete.
If I minimize my form it appears nothing is happening until the message

I am trying to assign the value of an array P_Lline(9) to USA in the
function below, and then in another procedure, i assign the value of
CityA = USA. So when i create a textbox and assign the value of CityA
to the textbox i expect to see the value of P_Lline(9) to be there,

I'm creating my first user control.  I don't like the date time picker with
the dropdown, and created my own code for this (see
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.vb.general ...

I am new to the Visual Basic world. I created a VB code that is used
in Word 2003. My customer has decided to use Word 2000 instead. The
code below will not run with Word 2000. Any suggestions on what I
should change? I have been trying to find others with the same issue,

I'm getting a Compile Error: Type Mismatch when my program starts to
execute.  I have a program that needs to simply read a comma delimited
file into a array and output them into another file.  here is the
first part of code where the error seems to be.  If i comment out the