VB Forum / General / July 2009

am using a program in VB6, i have done the installation in Vista OS
but i cant register the Vsflex7d.ocx, am getting registration failed.
Can anyone help me on that?

I am exporting data daily from SQL Server into a text file that needs to be
modified by a VB6 program in order to be imported by a proprietary
application.  As a part of the formatting process I am trying to remove
hyphens (-) from part of a text file (these are from facility ...

I am a VB programmer testing out my apps in Windows 7.  I am a XP guy
and have not really used Vista or 7.
I am trying to update a text file actually an INI file.  The program
does not generate any error messages but when I open the INI file it

It looks as suddenly, large numbers (not huge ones!) returned by
function calls in vb6/vba create an overflow msg
For exemple:
Private Sub yyy()

I have had a query from a customer who is at a larger company where the
workers work on client computers, not on a single computer but with a
remote server.
The problem is that my application doesn't want to send keys (my app is

On a remote pc that is...
I have a VB6 data collection app running on a remote PC, and need to
determine if the main form is open when a client app is opened.
Somewhat like this:

Can someone suggest a site, page or article that explains in
understandable language the definition of In-Process, Out-of-Process,
etc?
Even better, to discuss the subject of 'process space', and how this

I have a C++ project, but I don't know much C++. I would like to have
the application in VB6 for better understability and debugging. The
project consists of about 10 .dsw files (C++), and they compile to .lib.
Can anybody please tell me if it's possible to use them in VB6, maybe

I must have accidentally changed a property, somewhere!!
Now I cannot move any of my controls. If I try to move them, they "Snap"
back to their original position.
So, where and what is the property I accidentally changed.

I've been experimenting with Eduardo Morcillo's code to support drag &
drop of messages from Outlook into VB6. The code is available here:
http://www.mvps.org/emorcillo/en/code/vb6/index.shtml
Under "Getting attachments from Outlook messages dropped on a form".

Hi.  I am familiar with VBA and BASIC in general, but I am new to
the VB Express tool and am not familiar with Visual Studio in
general.
I have some VB files (e.g., .frm and .vbp) that are VB files produced

I need to develop a DLL in VB.net 2008, which exports a function.
This function can be called from another C++ DLL or Win32 application
(which is not necessarily developed in VB.net).
I have created a new Class Library project in VB.net, and added

I have searched for this solution on the net, but cannot find any.
Using VB6.
My application reads a date from a text file in the format "dd.mm.yyyy"
If the regional settings is set to for example Polish, Now() will return:

Hi all, I would like your opinion on the folowing issue.
I have an app that basically polls a folder looking for new files which can
be updated at any time.When it finds relevant files, it copies them to
another folder for further processing and then moves them to a back up

I am trying to use the vb.net upgrade wizard in vs5 to upgrade an old
application.
But the IDE shows some errors that I don't now how to fix.
The wizard though an error: