VB Forum / General / June 2008

I'm looking for a document that describes the ins and outs of  vb2005
conversion wizard when it converts "activex control applications". I
see that it converts it to a usercontrol.  How is that usable as an
activex control after conversion.. I see it converted application

Dear Gurus,
I have just purchased an new desktop PC, Athalon cpu, WinXP SP3.
I am trying to move my developement system (WinXP) across to the new
PC.

I have posted the below message in several (merit related groups like for
example microsoft.public.windows.file_system) but to no response.
I will try it here:
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Is there a way to pickle an array in VB and then unpickle it in
Python?
Thanks,
Lee G.

I have just run into a problem using resource files that I had not thought
about before. Is it possible to use more than one resource file in a VB6
App? If so how do you extract a file from the right one. LoadResData does
not seem to allow you to specify a resource file name.

I have a 3-tiered web application running on 2003 servers.Front end is
in ASP.  The second tier consists of Visual Basic 6 components (dlls)
running in Transaction Server.  The components send and receive
WebSphere MQ messages, connect to a SQL Server database located on a

[VB6]
I'm looking for suggestions on how to do text-to-speech in the simplest
manner possible without visual effects (i.e. no moving lips, no little
wizard characters, etc.) and using what's most likely already on most

This is a bit long winded.... but still worthy of a review.
I've been performing drag-drop actions to a MSFlexgrid on my app for a while
with perfect success.  All of a sudden, the functionality has stopped working
and it crashes the app and also the IDE when run from that ...

VB6SP6
I know how to open and manupiulate (stamp, resize, convert, flip) and save
in various formats with success.
But, what I do not understand is this.

VB6SP6
I am using the following code to flip the image in a picture box.
But it does not work.
I see the image loaded, it runs through this routine and nothing happens.

can anyone explain to me or send link on how to move folder/files from one
server to another via a script. I was hoping the script would be used once.
Virtualizing a 2003 server and will have to move home folders and users
content in them.

How can I calculate whether a given textstring will fit into a label with a
given width?
I mean I want to know whether a label(autosize=false) with a fixed width
would display all characters of a given string or not.

I have tab control with thre tabs 1, 2, 3; and I have combobox with same
items.
I need when user selects number 2 from the combobox, the tab 2 should be
selected, etc.

Hi all of you,
Primary platform is XP SP2 running VBA 2003 and Exchange 2003
I would need to send lots of emails programatically from a Access database
(2003).

I am developing a web application in Visual Studio 2003, .NET 1.1 to run on
our intranet.  I want to identify users to save them logging in.
The line:
UserName = Environment.UserName