VB Forum / General / May 2008

I can't believe it!
My WinXP developed VB6 SP6 app seems to work fine in Vista apart from one
small problem.
I didn't want to use a load of API stuff to get the 'hand' cursor when the

Just troubleshooting an outlook client issue.  Everything online says that if
you add an attachment, and it shows up in the body (but you want it on the
'attach' bar) of the email; in order to fix it, go Tools>Options>MailFormat,
and compose message in HTML, or Plain text.

I want the mousepointer to change to an hourglass
while a routine is running after a command button is clicked
and then change back to a pointer when the routine is done.
Which is best way to do this:

I have a VB .Net program that goes to different remote computers (all have XP
Professional) to access files.  It used to be fine, till a few months ago,
when the following error appears quite frequently.
No more connections can be made to this remote computer at this time because

does anybody know what really determines what will be the App.ExeName? I
always hardcoded it, but for 1 project I really need it softcoded, so I
would like to clear this issue up.
Tried to change it in Project->Name but it only works for new projects

Have a VB6 ActiveX dll with a class a normal module and a form.
This ActiveX dll is called from Excel VBA.
Excel needs to pick up events raised by the form sofar no luck with this.
This is what I have:

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?no_d2=1&sid=08/05/05/2335252
What a garbage?

Relative newbie here using VB6 SP5.
Isn't there a faster way than looping through each element of a byte array to
extract a string? I seem to recall seeing a way to do it in one simple function
call but for the life of me I can't find it now. Or am I remembering wrong?

I have a small VB app that's been download around 200,000 times so far with out an issue
Today a user emailed me that it throws run time error 91 on his XP Home machine and then abends.
It was written and compiled on an XP Pro machine. ( 2K pro to begin with )
Compiles with no ...

I have the following scenario:
Group Project XYZ
   > DLL Project C
        > Common Module Foo

I'm trying to use the Shell command to have Adobe Acrobat Reader open
a PDF File.
However, here is the catch:
The file name doesn't have a valid .PDF extension

more boring newb design questions <g>
given the advice per the subject line....
should I have an interface for "every" class i'm using?
ex:

I am moving my development environment to Vista and therefore I have
installed VB6 (Visual Studio 6) on Vista.  I notice the following:
1. My compiled programs (.exe) with sendkeys function ok on Vista (compiled
in the Vista environment).

Just curious whether anyone has played with this IE plug-in.  The VB
tie-in caught my eye, but it's apparently it really just means VB2008 if
I read that correctly.
Like I said; just a curiousity,

I have a pretty big number of workstations running my application. Each
workstation has a mapped drive. Now there is a need to move all the contents
of the mapped drive to another drive. After that I need to remove the old
mapped drive and create a new one with the same letter ...