VB Forum / General / August 2008

A project I've been working on for years is suddenly giving me error
messages when I try to load it.  Looking in the references dialog box, I see
the following errors:
Missing: Microsoft Data Environment Instance 1.0 (SP4) and Missing:

I am trying to find a way to determine the drive letter of a CD-ROM
drive.  I have the following information attained from wnaspi.dll
1) HostAdpater
2) DeviceID

I posted my Reference and Object list back in June and received some
suggestions which meant that some of them should be removed and to make some
alterations re:- DAO etc. I think I have corrected everything now and this my
current list.

I've got to produce 'dials'. We want to include indicators of percentage
completion on a web page that we generate from VB6 and the boss has decided
it's got to be a series of round dials.
Damn

In my app, I open a Word document.  I have an object set to the Word
application, and an object set to the document.
I would like to be able to close the document without killing the Word
instance also, and detect that the doc has closed and return my VB

Is it possible to obtain a free digital certificate for my software I sell
on the Internet. If not free...how about cheap?
TIA

Dear VB coders,
i am a really basic programmer. I used to use a simple code to put
TEXT from a text file in my computer into an RichTextBox in my vb
tool. here is the code>

My Problem.
I have 2 classes
ClsEnterprise
ClsUser

I wrote a VB6 service with the help of ntsvc awhile ago.  It has been
working perfectly in Win2k3 (and WinXP).  I have a tray app that
communicates with it via FindWindow and SendMessage.  Works great.
I moved the app to Win2k8.  My tray app cannot communicate with my service.

Anyone know the status of the "autoplay" Minesweeper project that was begun a
while ago? Although I didn't (and still don't) have enough programming skills to
contribute to the effort I was intrigued by the idea and it seemed to get off to
a pretty strong start. Is it done, ...

I am using DrawText(W) to draw a draw, and I'm using DT_WORDBREAK, so
that lines are broken.
It seems to me that there is no way to get the results, I mean to know
how the string was broken.

How do you set up an E-mail account in Windows Mail ?  I've got Wndows
Vista, 64 bit.

VB6-SP6 Code:
I have a app that uses a standard VB6 form as a container for dynamically
displayed Active X controls.  (Essentially multiple pages of date and user
adjustable info.)  And I can display multiple copies of the app at one time.

Im trying to create a project in which there is a WinSock and a class.
Im trying to pass the winsock object to a class by this code:
FORM:
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I am using VB6 version 8176 VBA 6.0.8169 Forms3: 102.0.6025.500. I am
running it on Windows XP home SP3 with no apparent problems.
I would like to know how I can find out if SP6 has been installed. If it
has not been insatlled would it be ok to just run SP6 (I have downloaded