VB Forum / General / April 2008

I thought I had this fixed, but it's happening again, but it seems like only
with avi files.  In VB6 if I play an .avi file in WMP and then delete the
file, it's not removed until the program closes.  To make sure I wasn't
missing something, I wrote a very simple test program.

I've just developed an interesting problem.  I've had this feature in my
software for years.  Yesterday I had two Vista calls where the software
is not exiting and so therefore the update fails when overwriting the
exe.  Any ideas?

My boss decided he's tired of seeing the "Unknown Publisher" dialog, and
wants us to start using code-signing in our applications.  After some
searching, we're not even sure exactly what we're looking for.  There are a
lot of products out there and it's not real clear what they ...

I have a class clsFile.  And I have a let and get
Private mvarsFileLocation As String  'local copy
Public Property Let FileLocation(ByVal vData As String)
    mvarsFileLocation = vData

I'm launching a windows form using VB .NET 2005 and want to pre-
populate some of the user fields from Active Directory, e.g. "display
name".  This works fine when I'm logged in as a local admininstrator,
but not when I'm a lowly domain user.

is it important to get the return value of an API function when I do not
really need it?
For example when I say...
Call FooAPI()

I tried format$(now, "hhh:mm:ss.xxx"), where xxx is pretty much any
letter out there all to no avail.
How to write out current time including milliseconds in the format
specified?

I found out that Help in VB6 does not work
anymore. I get "An unknown error has occurred".
So I Googled for it, but the info on this message
is huge. Nevertheless I found that I had to delete

Is there any way to transform date and time insto a SQL Server Table datetime
format???
I understand the ramifications of the SQL Server datetime column definition.
And I understand that I might have to handle this through SQL Server rather

I have a third party app that decodes a transaction file for me, which I
want to automate. In order to run the executable, I need to know the name of
the file I want to be processed. The filename is made up of a department
number and date. Can someone give me some VB6 code that I ...

I have been using ShellExecute from VB6 for years to launch from a
psuedo menu bar (acutally shapes). This has worked well with .exe .lnk
(shortcuts), folders and files (.doc,.xls). Recently a couple of users
have had the PC lock up when accessing the

I have a VB6 application to print the report and export it into PDF format
by using the crystal report (ver 9) component.  It can run okay on my PC
everytime.  However, it did failed on the middle of the process sometimes
(I'll say 50%~70% failed) when it ran on the production ...

As many here have said, MS cannot be trusted with our development
environments. MS are dishonest and have little regard for the work we've put
in over the years. Therefore we should not use dot net. Yet many here still
recommend using VB6 even for new projects. If MS are so ...

I have a VB6 app running under client server and would like to eliminate the
VB6 user login I created to validate users.  Users have already logged in
through active directory so their login is valid by the time they want to
open my VB6 app.

Im currently having trouble transferring all data from one list in one form
to another form.
Im just really fishing on hwo to do it with my currenct code but here it is
anyway.