VB Forum / General / January 2008

I have a big problem.
When you have existing customers claiming that your application crashes
randomly or even locks the computer, and you're using lots of
subclassing and custom controls, how would you proceed besides having a

Is there any abbrevation for "= TRUE".
I thought about something like
bMyBool!
... but that is already in use for database fields... :-(

          I am using OSfCreateShellLink() to add my app to Windows Startup
menu for the last 10 years.
Now, I am redoing my software and I would like to get rid of  Vb5stkit.dll.
What can I use instead?

IS there any way to retrieve windows credentials(username and
password) for each user via vb6.0..if so can anybody give me the code
Thanks & Regards
Kalyan

I'm developing using VB6.0, SP6.
I'm trying to incorporate On Error GoTo logic in my programs.  I know i can
trap any error that occurs in a procedure and give message box with a
generic error verbage.

Currently we are decoding and presenting data from an external
hardware in text form, but that is not readable at run time. so, we
have to provide a control that will display the details presented in
text format in a tabular/grid format refreshing it every second as it

I have a collection of event sources (i.e. objects that raise events),
and I need to maintain a collection of them.
Is there a way to rais events from a collection?

VB6SP6
Help says you can only change at design time.
But I seem to remember that there is a way to change it at runtime.
Does anyone know and have a link to a snippet?

Is there a way to force the File Selector dialog top open in Thumbnail mode
(as opposed to "details")
Im calling ShowOpen from VB 6.

per object browser
flexgrid.colwidth is in twips
flexgrid.width does not specify units
I was trying to divide cols equally so they all fit into the grid with no

I'm intercepting keystrokes Asciis to cause a beep. I can beep on ENTER (13)
and spacebar (32) but whatever I try I can't beep on TAB (9).
Any ideas

I'm wondering what is the best way of replacing a set of nodes with an
XmlDocument with another set of nodes? I'm limited to VS2003 for this
unfortunately..
I essentially need to replace a specific range of nodes with another range,

Does any body knows any way to read and seek text files bigger than 2GB.
I've already use SetFilePointer Windows API function but its parameters are
Long, so I can't go far beyon that limit

I want to use a timer in a formless class
and declared a variable in my class like this :
Dim withEvents m_timer As Timer
when I tried to instantiate it like this:

I am trying to send a simple UDT variable, using the SendMessage, and I
need an example to show me how to do it. I have Googled, I have not yet
seen an example that shows how to send a UDT. The bit I am struggling
with is how to copy the data from my variable, to COPYDATASTRUCT ...