VB Forum / General / April 2008

Is it possible to find (maybe in Active Directory) the security parameters
for a folder on the network : all AD groups with their rights (read only,
read and write, ...) ?
Thank you.

I have an application which includes one (well several but we will
just discuss one for simplicity) ActiveX dll.  This dll includes a few
user interface forms.
My question is this...what is the correct way to raise errors from the

I need to adjust screen brightness (set to max) on IBM notebooks.
Anyone know how to do this?

While this applies to Vista, it also applies to XP (even though most ignore
it). Like most, my programs use INI and input files, as well as
customer-made and modified data files. I've always placed the INI and main
data files in the Program directory, and the data files (similar to

Is there any way to leave some private notes in that window?
Specially in the Name field.
Because of vbasic limits I am forced to start using the same controls as the
array elements.

I have written a VB6 (SP6) application which allows printing of multiple
copies using COMMONDIALOG1. Under Windows 98, ME, 2000 & XP this works fine.
Under Vista, no matter how many copies of the print are requested, only 1
copy is produced.

Can somebody clear me up what the difference is....
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
and the Autostart folder in the Windows Start menu?
I am totally confused... For example MSN messenger (or ICQ) is not in

Res.All
  Is this scenario possible in VB.
A program created in vb is running in the background. Then at certain time
interval a number is displayed where the cursor is just like barcode

In VB6, is there any better way to handle errors than to have an
error handler in each method?
    Most of the time, I just need a general error handler that will
print a bit of context and exit the program.

what i need is to call a form2 from a form1, and i need to close the form1
before the form2 is open, right now i'm doing this:
me.close()
dim objForm2 as new frmForm2

Is it necessary to install the VS Studio 6 MSDN library when installing VB 6
Enterprise?
Can I install the Oct 2001 MSDN library instead?
Or, do I need both?

Why is my app hanging when it's closed with this code?
In frm_Chart
Sub Calculate()
Dim k As Single

There appears to be a bug in the VB Screen Object which causes it to return
an incorrect value for its Width property if the user switches the screen
pixel size while your VB program is running. In many cases this is not too
serious but it is something you should be aware of if ...

I've been googling for about an hour, but can't find some working
code. I've checked zip32.dll, zlib.dll, and lz32.dll, but it still
doesn't work
Ideally, I'm looking for an open-source non-OCX DLL that can zip files

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than 100,000 signatures and thousands of comments, mostly from die-hard
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