VB Forum / COM / November 2003

I have an activex executable.  (I'll call it "the server")
I try to launch this progam from a Visual C++ client, by
calling CreateDispatch.  (I'm sure I could use VB and call
CreateObject, which is I believe the same thing.)

I have an executable program that loads in VB Active X Dll's and uses
the IDispatch interface to call methods of the DLL. The executable has
exported functions to contol the program, E.g. SetButtonCaption
When the ActiveX is compiled the whole lot runs perfectly. But when

I have several hundred entries in my registry like
HKEY_CASSES_ROOT\AppID\{F4A2ADA3-4EEEC-448E-91D4-
DFE7DCAB0D89} which have two values
AppID  - {F4A2ADA3-4EEEC-448E-91D4-DFE7DCAB0D89}

How can you tell what port to assign inside the VB program
when starting a VB program. I have a program that reads
through a COM PORT but I have to be flexible on what com
port that the SWIPE machine will be hooked to.

I created an activeX DLL project in VB with two functions
whose defitions are as follows::
Public Function Fxn1(strOIDS As String) As String
Public Function Fxn2(strOIDS As String) As String.

I would like to create a .vbs file that I can run from a computer that
will pull up the systemid of that computer, and post it to a url. This
will be part of a program that runs when someone installs a copy of
software I've sold them, and it will retreive a copy of the cd number

I have a function that is getting a file in binary format back from the
server and writes the file to the local C: drive. Instead of writing the
file to the c drive how can i just open the doc?
the doc is in PDF format.

I want to create an activex dll in VB6 with some public classes and general purpose functions which can be called from multiple projects. The functions are grouped in multiple modules and have public scope. But when I compile the dll, the module itself is private and the ...

i have a problem.
i'have an mdichild form with an ole control.
i want to call an excel applcation using the ole control.
the problem is the excel application is embeddded in the mdichild form but the

I have mad my own explorer for Document archiving system.
Now i want to implement shortcut keys for copy, cut and paste
functions in it.
So, the actual problem is that i want to track down the shortcut keys

I have a VB program that reads a PDF417 swipe through a
COM PORT. I read one byte at a time and parses it back
together. It works fine if I slow the process down by
placing "display msgbox" commands before the read and then

This is a very very critical problem for me. I have automated word through
visual basic. My application creates a word document at run-time. I have
Windows XP on the system where I am developing this application. When I run
this applicaiton on Windows XP then the application works ...

How can I link in a Paradox Table to an Access Database at Runtime

I have a VB6 app that I would like the end-user to be
able to customize (minimally) by adding their own
logic to certain functions.
I don't know enough about the OLE/COM topics to know

I have run into a strange occurrence.  Basically I want to open up an
Excel file and do a save as to html (I know office automation on server
is bad).  I wrote a small com application to do this.  Please see the
code below: