VB Forum / General / May 2008

Helllo!
Is it possible under Vista that the first MsgBox is not shown for ANY
reason, like UAC or so??
PLEASE ANY THOUGHTS!! No matter what the application does, after the

Had a lot of issues trying to get VB6 (Visual Basic 6) IDE to work smoothly
on Vista with UAC (user account control) turned on. Tried seting properties
on vb6.exe to always run as administrator but that didn't work well. Finally
found a way add "Run As Administrator" on the right ...

I have an application written in VBA (Access) that will be installed
on multiple machines on our network.  All instances connect to a back-
end mdb for sharing data.  This app monitors a mail server and
performs various mail related tasks.

i bought a computer from DELL around 5-6 years ago and i had a 5 year
warranty with it with on site warranty now i contacted them on several
occasions when i was having pc problems and not once did they ever come out
to see me at my home so i basically washed my hands with dell ...

I have created a DLL in VFP9 and I include _ in the beginning of the Method
name such as mydll.._MyMethod()
I get surprised when I try to implement this dll in VB6 SP5 and I notice
that every method begins with _ (underscore) is not (shows/recognized) by

i have two users on my welcome screen, both with admin rights
both users are showing unread mail, but the wrong accounts - i have tried
tweakui  and checked out kb 304148 as suggested in other posts
disabled notifications for the time being - but i would like to resolve this

I have a program in vb6 that connects to a database in SQL. I don't have any
problem with connecting my forms to database, but I have problem when I want
to bring my program to another computer. when I change the computer, even
when I make it exe, I  faced a problem, because the ...

VB6SP6
Can hDC be used to access the properties of an object?
e.g.
Dim pic as PictureBox

I am using VB-6 and I have about 200,000 lines of text which include spaces
and I want suggestions as far as which way is the fastest way starting from
the beginning of the line to grab the left side of the string up to the first
blank space.

Code signing for a project I picked up is no longer working.
The person who wrote the app is using the following w/ signtool.exe:
c:/signtool sign /a C:/pathtoexe etc
The /a argument tells signtool to use the default cert, which appears in the

It seems difficult today getting people to work on VB6. Two people
(including me) have left in a month because they didn't want VB6 and most of
the other developers are threatening to leave if they get it. If anyone is
interested let me know. It's Melbourne Australia. Job comes ...

I'm leaving my job and moving over to a VB.net project so I might be a bit
scarse around here :-) Mike, Karl, Robert and everyone, I enjoyed arguing
with you all these years but it's time to go now :-)

I've developed an MDI Application displaying UserControls in the MDI
Childs. One of my UserControls displays its own Form (displayed as
popup) launched with 'Show vbModeless, Me' (with Me = the UserControl).
This introduces a nasty side effect: When launching another MDI Child,

I just recently wrote a service with a separate tray app to interface to it.
All works fine in XP and Win2k3.  The interface that I used was FindWindow
and SendMessage.   Reading other posts, it appears that this may not be the
preferred method.  Other posts stated Named Pipes or ...

In VBA Editor > Tools > References there's a list of object libraries
you can check-off to use.
I'm wondering if there's a way in VB to programatically check a
library to make a reference, test if it available, enabled, etc...