VB Forum / COM / July 2003

Hello. I use an activeX exe and a multiuse class for an IPC purpose (using a
shared pool of Global Vars)
It works well for that purpose, but now i am trying to add event management
The MultiUse Class is istanciated 3 times.

I tried to follow the client/server DCOM tutorial
(Q266717) and it worked fine.
Then, I changed the server applicatrion so it will call
an exe file (that exists on the SERVER drive) by using

How to know if vb form is active.Iam trying send a message when ever the
form is not active.

I have the following code in a Visual Basic 6 standard exe project. On
my computer, the development computer, it works fine.
Dim ObjH as variant
Set objH = CreateObject ("Shell.Application")  

Anyone I am sure can tell me this, in fact I have use a
function to do this, but I cannot for the life of me
remember or find how to see if a directory is valid or
not.  All I want to do is have the user type in the

Is it possible to access remote components from the same
machine using the same methodology as you would use when
connecting from a different machine?  Let me explain
further ....

i have a vb6 program that reads an access database, a word document, 2
text files, writes a new word document, an excel spreadsheet and updates
1 of the text files.  a lot of code so i cant post it here.
it works great from the IDE but when i do a make and then run as an

i need to rip thru a document removing all embedded objects, images,
charts, etc.  any idea how to do this?
thanx for your time, patience and consideration.
Woody

Hi guys, I'm a newbie in VB, and I'm trying to import some data from an
Excel File into a text file. I know this can be done inside Excel, but I
need a completely automated system.
After looking through pages after pages of MS documentation, they all

Hey guys,
I got a question about Excel COM.
I'm using it to import data from Excel, so it requires that I start, in the
background, instances of the application itself.

Can anyone provide any code which does to following:
1. Dials a named Dialup Networking Connection.
2. Then runs an ftp session
3. Then terminates the dialup connection.

   I´m looking for a way to register an ActiveX EXE using api instead of
the command line /REGSERVER, exists a way to do it? Reading the MSDN and SDK
documents it says that using the command line it will internaly calls the
DLLRegisterServer, but, I known that the OLEServers does ...

I have a number of components built as part of client projects, and these
are (getting more and more) dependant on proprietary components that I'm
using to store 'toolkit code' - data access layers, date and string
manipulation fns, etc.

I'm just a beginner in VB6 so if this is a silly question ...:-))
This is the situation:
I have an excel template (test.xls)
I want to use this template for creating a report in VB.

   I have created one stored procedure in SQLServer it has return one value
@entitle
   how can I get that return value in vb?
while I'm trying to use this statement ..