VB Forum / COM / December 2003

I'm creating a MDI app in VB 4.0 which contains quite a few controls in each child window.
Its a technical app with 50 or so input parameters. But opening up 5 child windows causes an out of
memory condition.
What is the best way to handle memory usage. Set the controls up as ...

I am creating an excel through VB and loading data from an array into
the workbook. Everything works fine.
Now, I want:
1)the excel to be of Landscape format.

i have a code with a calculate button.. in short tearms
the code is like...
when the calc is pushed..  label4.text="5*5"
is works, does the math but i need label 4 to display a

Hi, i'm trying to establish a communication between 2 modem. The first one
is an old modem wich top speed is 9600 bauds. The other one is a 56K V.90. I
use VB to establish this communication. When I send the connection request,
I get the "CONNECT" response, but then whenever I try ...

I get the run-time error 462, "remote server machine does
not exist or is unavailable" when I run my program a
second time. I create a Word document, and then open a
database and import the desired data. The first time

I can't not longer add some components to my VB app. It says that I do not
have an appropriate licence. But it was working just fine yesterday. I tried
using vb6cli.exe, but i got the error message "VB 6.0 was not detect on this
system." Any idea of what could fix this problem.

I need the API that add an exe file icon beside the PC clock when it
executed. such as when you execute the MSN Messanger the MSN icon appears
beside the clock.
thank you.

I'm working on an application that sends and receives
data over the serial port using the MSComm control.
How do I empty the buffer of the received data and how do
I set its size?

Hey all I am loading a project that someone else in my company started
developing awhile ago to finish it off (VB6).  I cannot seem to find the
file sscala32.ocx which is needed to load this project.  Does anyone
know where I can download this file or is it possible for someone who

Is there any command to detect two keys pressed at the same time ?????
like "A" and "B"
....

I have a VB5 project that utilizes a ListView control.  Looking at the
control's properties, I see there are a number of icons on the ImageList
tab.  Of coures, the project I have does not include any .ico or .bmp files.
Where are these icons stored within the project?