VB Forum / General / September 2008

I have MDI form in my VB6 project. Its WindowState is set to 2 - Maximized
and it is not change by code anywhere. MDI form has StatusBar control
alligned to the bottom. Children forms are loaded in maximized state into
MDI. When any child is loaded everything looks fine. But if ...

I want to add a reference to a new object AMO that exists in SQL2005
Analysis. I need to convert old code with DSO object to the new AMO object.
So I tried registering the dll with regsvr32, but I got an error message of
"..dll was loaded, but the DLLRegisterServer entry point was ...

I have a 2D array A(n,n).  At times, I may need to decrease the size of the
array by one, like
Redim B(0 to n-1,0 to n-1)
for i=1 to n

I had posted this message in another newgroup, and it was suggested that I
post it here.  So, sorry about the double posting.
In VB 6.0, I have two variant arrays, that may either contain doubles or
strings, let's say A and B.  Then I want to compare their values.  For

Gents -
Hypothetical:
I am contracted to write a program for a client.  We agreed (in writing)
that the client will retain all source code as they want to do their own

I use a standard menu on a mdi form.
Now, I want to change the background color
of the ribbon bar. It's standard color (on xp)
is vbButtonFace with a white line on the the

Subject pretty much say it all.  I would like to write a small app (in
VB 6) which can interate over a folder structure of flac (Free
Lossless Audio Codec) files reading the tags.  Then based on the value
of specified tags perform some action.

I'm using the commonly available functionality for editing a MSFlexgrid by
putting a textbox overlay on the selected cell of the grid.  All is well with
that.  
I wanted to include the ability to use copy paste commands in this textbox.  

Values are not out of range so why ABS function return error?  Bug?
Dim x As Long
x = &H80000000
Debug.Print Abs(x)

Say:
   Dim a() As Double
   ReDim a(1 To 10000)
   ' do somthing

I want to compress a xml file using any of the compression(ex
gzcompress as in php) methods in vb.
Is there any built in function to do this.PLease let me know.
I am totally lost.

Disclaimer: I am NOT trying to slam VB.NET here. I found this funny because
it hits on the dumbing-down of VB terminology (which has been with us since
1.0!) that I have ranted about many times in the past. Sorry if this has
been posted before.

I have the following code in a class:
Public Static Sub getMessage()
  ...
end Sub

How can i enumerate all network adapters in VB Express 2008?

I've got an application that uses COM automation to read Excel spreadsheets.
It's failing on workstations that are running Office 2007.
Is there a different library or something that I need to link into the EXE
to support automating Excel 2007?  If so what is it and where can I get ...