VB Forum / General / March 2007

(fwiw, I've tried to post this three times at it's not yet gone
through...odd)
Seeing there have been a lot of question about applications running on Vista
and not being able to write to anything in the Program Files folder (which

I am trying to make a programme that shuts the system when the
countdown(duration is given by user) finished. Everything is ok,but i
cannot
shut the system. As far as i learn, i need to use api. I used one but

I would like to run my vb5 programme on a network.
I am just wondering whether you be so nice to tell me how to do that?
The programme now run separately on each client. I don't know anything so I
would be grateful if you could tell me what to do, every single step; what o

What are Command Line  commands to build VB6 projects?
I have a complex project and I need to write either a .bat file to build or
use a Make program, either way I can't seem to find this simple piece of info
from all the clutter...

I want the user to be able to see the form and then do some stuff
while he can view the form.
If I put the stuff in form load, he can't see the form until after.
So, what is the first event after the form loads that I can use for

I am writing a polling application for a temperature sensor attached to our
network. I am having trouble translating the documentation into VB6 code. The
manual states:
Send a 60 byte string with the first four bytes set to 0x3f 0xcd 0xdc 0x00,

I cannot just open any EXE files compiled by me in Visual Studio 2005.
When i try to run any EXE (or try to edit the code in VS 2005), my system
simply *RESTARTS!*
No error messages - no warnings!!

I noticed that when I try to get text from one particular window calling
SendMessage(hWnd, WM_GETTEXT...
the application hangs up until I close it using Task Manager.
For all other windows this call works fine.

I am using a com object to maintain session in my website.
I have been using these objects for years. I did not develop the objects.
one of the websites is now being moved to another server.
at a different hosting company.

I have a Microsoft Add-in and I'm trying to call a subroutine in the addin
module from the form...  The sub is marked "public"; How do I do this?
I know is probably a stupid question that I should know....

How can I use a StdFont object when drwing to a device context (no
font property to set).  IOW what I need is a way to select an instance
of an StdFont object into a Device Context so that it become the font
used when the DrawText method is called.

How Do I "UPDATE" a previously created string?
I have a problem where an XML string created in
an event handler fails because the string doesn't "UPDATE"
each time the event hanlder fires, but "APPENDS",

  You know the way pressing the return button inside a textbox in a
Web form causes the page to be refreshed?
  Is there any way this can be disabled?
  Woudl appreciate any guidence on this one.

In VB6,  I'm currently using Print statements to print to the printer
object.  Fine.
Now the customer wants to copy this same printed information to the
clipboard for use elsewhere like Powerpoint.

i've got a high score table saved as a text file which i want to read into a
2-d array so that i can update it with the current players score and i cannot
think how i go about seperating each name and score into their correct array
location i've got it seperated by commas so i ...