VB Forum / General / May 2008

Being a hobbyist and writing mostly stand alone utilities for myself and
friends I have always "rolled my own" database structures (using various
methods including fixed size records and / or various linking arrangements
for variable sized records) and they have always previously ...

How complicated is it to create a vbs to do the following.
1.) Check directory on a network share (open share, no user/pass
needed)
2.) get the latest file in the latest folder and email it to mailbox.

I have a Windows Forms app that uses separate instances of the WebBrowser
control to host Word documents.  Assume I have 2 open.  The last one opened
becomes the _application.ActiveDocument.  This does not change even when I
bring the other document to the foreground.  I can edit ...

Security Newbie:
I am logged into my PC as local Administrator whether I use my PC locally or
in the office.
The PC is configured to connect to the domain when being in the office.

I have sent a friend a exe file I want him to test for me, and he is saying
that he gets an error Missing File :- MSCOMCTL.OCX. I sthis missing from his
machine or an error in my program?
I have this file on my PC and it is ver 6.1.97.86 do I need to upgrade?

From a previous post I am wanting to set up Inno, from the link below I have
followed the instructions but getting the following report, can you help
please.
http://www.xtremevbtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22267

I've been using a tlb created from idl and want to add some stuff to it.
Original help obtained here from Ralph, etal .... thanks again.
here's the first few lines
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In our (VB5) apps, I need to check if the user has logged on with an
account that has admin rights, so that I can install an OCX if it's
missing, and connect out to the Net to call a remote PHP script.
Is there a reliable way to check for this?

Being a lurker here, I usually only get involved when I need help with
something.
I've probably read at least 30 or 40 of each of your posts, and I just
want to congradulate you both.

We are testing a 3rd party application that have never encountered
this issue before now. It's actually that in our automated script we
execute script to open and close the 3rd party application a few
times, which isnt unreasonable and shouldnt cause a crash.

We are working on a VB6 application that can be configured to start
automatically each time Windows (Vista in this example) starts.
Our application is being blocked by Vista, and showing up in the
'Blocked programs list'.

I have a list box. When the user selects an item from that list, I would like
the index to appear on a text box.
In my mainframe, I've got both the List1 & Test1 setup.
Here's the code I'm using :

I'm seeing some strange behaviour in a VB6 COM addin that is being used from
Excel.  A call to Application.Workbooks.Open() is failing silently.  The
function where the call occurs has an error handler setup, and it is never
invoked.  The call to Open just returns Nothing (which ...

This is what happens when trying to prototype without knowing what
language or where its going to land...
Tried this in C#... oh no...
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Hello, trying to tap into the TAPI 2.x api (tapi32.dll) , but without
success.
The function I need is documented here (
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa917543.aspx ), but I can't