VB Forum / COM / August 2003

An urgent problem for help!
I have a problem to solve,it has disturbed  me for a long
time.
It requires:

A user of a program I wrote was getting incorrect results from
calculations based on her input in a textbox.  I finally had to sit
down and watch her every move and discovered that when she changes a
value in a text box, she does so by dragging the mouse accross the

I've got an ActiveX EXE which I am engineering as both a standalone
executable (runnable from the windows shell) and a COM server (creatable by
a software client). What is the best way to engineer this so that the
ActiveX EXE has an awareness of whether it is being executed by a ...

       Some queires,
* Whats abstract class & how i can implement in VB 6?
* Whats Interface?
* Difference between this two i.e Abstract & Interface class..

i've made an activex DLL in VB6, and registered it in the
windows com service.
When i call this DLL in an ASP page, with the
createObject method i see this error:

I'm building a vb6 app that reads data from an Access
table into a recordset, then it performs some calculating
with the data and finally the the data is written to an
excel worksheet which is saved tot disk when all is done.

       Some basic queires while coming to the concept of Abstract &
Interface.
* Whats abstract class & how i can implement in VB 6?
* Whats Interface?

VERY NEW AT THIS. WILL MY VISUAL BASIC 6.O WORK WITH
WINDOWS XP?
IF NOT, IS THERE A WAY?

Is is possible to make voice calls down a broadband line?
Jerry

Does anyone know how to add comments to a compiled VB
application? For example if I have enums in a project and
I want to add a comment for each enum and see it inside of
object browser - how would I do this?

I need to know if there is a way to view all the connections that a COM
component currently has open.  I need to see the number of connections and
who is connected to the component.  Any help is appreciated.
John

I am trying to copy an attachment from my inbox to another
folder on our network.  Although it works, it is
truncating the name of the attachment when it is copied if
it is greater than 8 characters. How do I retrieve the

Any pointers on identifying the Error 429 (can't create ActiveX Object) in
my tiny VB app that simply uses a DTS object to remotely upload Access2000
data to a SQLServer2000 database. In house (developement machines) there is
no problem running the utility. When installed on target ...

I know that to execute an exe in vb 6 is by using shell
command. after executing it how can i terminate it? what
is the command?
pls help thanks.

I'm not a VB programmer, and I try to find the equivalent to
"CoCreateInstanceEx" which I use in VC.
I saw that VB's "CreateObject" has only 2 parameters : "Class" and
"ServerName".