VB Forum / COM / January 2004

Hi gurus,
I have an application developed with VB6 SP5. I have been built the
installer with Inno Setup. I've tried to install it in a Windows XP
Profesional with SP1 and get the following error:

We have developed an application in VB6 (say AA.exe). We wish to
schedule the execution of this application (AA.exe) through Windows
Task Scheduler.
Is there a way through which we can add this application (AA.exe) to

I am going to build a VB program that has add-on capability, which allow
users to build their own plug-ins or add-on later on.
Anyone has good idea on it?
that's what in my head at this moment:

I'm trying to use a VB ActiveX DLL as a server in my VC++6.0 SP5 client app.
This server connects to an ADO database and is a 'wrapper' for the
ADODB.Connection events.  I.E., it fires custom events when its internal
Connection member (Private WithEvents) fires an event.

Hello group,
excuse the crosspost, but I don't know where to ask and I'm pulling my hair
out...
Is it possible to implement the IHTMLEditHost interface in VB? If yes, how?

Is there any property (appart from autoredraw's) which with I could avoid
status bar flicking???
I have a form and a status bar bellow where I refresh the status of my
program but it's continously

I would like to shell out to acces and open a particular mdb file when
exiting my vb app. How can I do this. here is what I have so far but to not
avail.
Shell ("C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office XP\Office10\MSACCESS.EXE" &

I have an ActiveX Dll that I have implemented using VB 6.0.
The DLL implements 50 differrnt kind of com objects that have
references to each other.  The problem I have is that when the client
exe finishes execution, it does not termnate because there are DLL

Please guid me how to convert a header(library) file to a library file(lib/tlib) file in VB
Thn
Bala

I need to execute Notepad.exe with the following routine :
Public Const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002
Dim lHandleKey As Long
Dim sResult As String * 256

I'm new to APIs, DLLs, and robust error handling, so please bear with me :)
Does Err.LastDllError return errors for custom DLLs or only for native
Windows API?
I need an error logging architecture for our application which uses many

im wondering how to extract information from a web page "ie ebay" . I
wanting to extract the item number price date description and then have a
window come up that allows me to add some fields. all this to be inserted in
to a data base

 I found the code of "Context Menu shell extension sample", it is very
good!
I want study the code, could anyone please help me? thank you.
when i selected two files, and the popup menu have two items(show two file

How can I get information about e-mail accounts in outlook express ?
I'd like informations about: pop server and username account
ICQ 2003 do it! Somebody knows how can I do it in my
app's?

How can i view an old (VB3) form in a newer version (VB6), if it is possible? IMO there should have been some 'import' option or something, but i was unable to find it...