VB Forum / COM / December 2003

I am currently using MDAC 2.6 in VB COM Object for our Web Application.
Now, we are consider to change it to MDAC 2.8, coz Microsoft said that it have
fixed many problem. Now here is the question in my mind:
- Should I install MDAC 2.6 SP2 or MDAC 2.8? What is the difference between ...

I am writing a program that sends a keystroke (F4) to a
surveying laser rangefinder, which then returns a distance
measurement to a specified textbox in the application,
which I then record on an Excel spreadsheet.  Problem is,

After painfull investigation of my colleagues we found out that VB runtime
has a threading bug when loading and unloading DLLs that can cause
deadlocks.
If you have a VB object being created and another being destroyed at the

I have collected a bunch of functions into a dll.
On module level  I have declaration for the dll:
Private WithEvents curInstance As fnDll.
The dll is called in a loop as  follows (simplified)

What happens when a user of my applacation has a PC with a difrent Drive
Letter than "C:\"  ???
Will My applacation not work ???
If so how do I code around this ???

Any expert could tell me what is the change in MDAC 2.8?
Br,
Rayman

I have developed an application (ASP + COM+) which are using ODBC to access the database.
However, someone told me that the performance will become faster if we change to use OLEDB
to access the database. So, I am planning to change the database access component to use
OLEDB, ...

In a vb application i'm using the below function to fetch XML data and
convert it to a recordset
something like this
Set rs=LoadRecordset("http://someurl.com/abc.asp?CaseId=213")

I'm looking for a password generator.
example: I pass as parameter a string and the function return a
password.(string)
can anyone provide me any password generator ????

I remember reading sometime back that micorsoft would not
supporting the vb 6. Is this true? Is it necessary to port
all the vb apps to .NET? Any info would be helpful.
Thanks,

I am working with a control (Catalyst SocketWrench) where the type
library name has changed for different versions, but the CLSID has
remained the same.  This unfortunately means that only one version of
this control can be registed on a machine, and separate applications

I am building a method of an COM object,I want this method can return a
recordset object.
Is this possible?
I am using ASP to call the method.

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 have a problem in VB6.0
problem is
i am using the web browser in visual basic which is
used for my web services so when i type a site name in

    I've spent a couple of hours googling, but can't find a way to
extract the CLSID from an OCX file. I know I can register it and read
this information (and others) from the Registry, but I'd like to get
this information directly from the OCX instead, and display this info