VB Forum / COM / December 2003

I am trying to develop an Mp3 player program. I am using Multimedia MCI
control. When I play Mp3 files, MCI's back and step buttons do not work.
I try to do it in the code as follows:
x = Slider1.Value

Is the MSCOMM Control available in Excel Visual Basic?  

I'm writing and ActiveX enabled DLL to act as a front for several other
non-activeX DLL's.  The tool that is the target of all this effort -
"FlashStudio Pro" requires that VersionIndependentProgID be set in the
registry.

How do I show the time and date on a label.

  I am experiencing a strange error. I was working on a project(vb6) and
after i was done I made an exe for the project in the same folder as the
project file.After a couple of days, I am trying to do some changes to the
project.I have done the changes and the project works fine ...

I have problem with special Character.
I would like to type "32% Bonus" using Sendkeys Method, But it send "32
Bonus" , "% is missing.
I know "%" is considered as "ALT" key. Is there any way we can solve this

I tried to pass two dimension array into C DLL, but the initilized data is
misplaced in the array!
Type AUTOCAL_INST_HANDLER
   defaultRM As Long

As Groupwise claims to be MAPI compatible, I want to access Groupwise
data with the same code:
(language is Visual Basic)
-----8<-----------------------------------------------------------------

Does anyone know/heard of a way to programmatically use
the Outlook Advanced Find feature?
According to numerous articles on the net, this is not
possible as there are no direct Outlook API calls to

for redistribution with our software, at a reasonable cost?
I would like to enable e-mailing under Lotus Notes, Exchange and
Novell, however I'm having difficulties finding an approach that is
cheap and easily configurable .....

I am running:
         VB6
         Outlook 98
         Windows NT 4.0/windows 2000/winXP

   How can I configure SMTP (mail settings) while installation?
   I need to do this so that my appilcation can use this settings to send
emails.
Thanks in advance,

Is there any way I can get SID (not machine name) on windows platform. using
VB.. ?
Regards.........

I've been working on creating an installation package for my program
using the packaging and deployment wizard. It usually does the trick,
but its very ugly -- for just about every file it installs, I get the
message

I have developed a program using visual basic that works only if the
user on
the system is an administrator.
I would appreciate some help on how to give the right permissions for