VB Forum / General / September 2008

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Good day
I have an application which is ideally client server based.
My target audience is price point sensitive which prohibits Windows Server
software and associated hardware/support.

With VB6 Enterprise, it was not hard to set up a multi-tier scenerio.  But
with VB.NET, if you want to create a DLL to be located on a server and for
various clients to be able to use that DLL, do you have to set that server
up as a web server?  It doesn't let me create a new simple ...

Using vb6 sp2.
What to use to handle program being used on different size monitors with
different resolutions.
Thanks

If a [poorly written] program does its own polling loop, and reads bytes
quickly enough from .Input, could [some of] the OnComm events be suppressed?
    Bob
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I've noticed that starting up a new cmd.exe prompt no longer displays the current
environmental variables. Where does cmd.exe get it's ev's from? Is there an API
to call in order to force a Windows cmd.exe prompt to read System EVs from the
registry?

I would like to shell to another program from my VB6 app, notepad for
example, and then know if the user minimizes that window or restores it
from the task bar.
Can someone point me in the right direction?

Good day
I would like to give my users the ability to check for an upgrade to my app
and download it if required.
I use currently use DeleteUrlCacheEntry and URLDownloadToFile to download a

Is it possible to programmaticaly create the mouse click on the window not
belonging to my app but knowing the window's title?
It must be done in 2 steps:
1. positioning mouse over the required window's area

I have a VB6 application that I am supporting that has references to MS Word
& MS Excel.  Recently, users are complaining that each time they try to run
the application, a dialogue appears attempting to to install MS Office.  This
fails as they users do not have necessary ...

I'm attempting to declare and capture the FormClosing() event on a
form called Form1. My declaration of the subroutine is as follows:
Private Sub Form1_FormClosing(sender as Object, e as
FormClosingEventArgs)   Handles Form1.FormClosing

I'm in need of a quick solution to a problem that's been solved many
times before -- just not by me. (-:
I've written an MCI-based media player that uses a VB picture box as a
parent for the MCI window. It works great when driven by an external

If I burn my Inno Setup.exe to a CD can the OP
run it from the CD to install the program?

I constantly struggle with n-tier development concepts.I understand about
presentation layer, business rules layer and data layers (and any other
layers I care to define). What I struggle with is the practical step of
plugging these together.

Good day group...
Can someone throw some light on this problem please:
I have a form which contains a form level array, declared in the
Declarations section as