VB Forum / COM / January 2004

my exe application has main module that basically loads up the startup form
for an application.  I want to check if the associated dll file has
successfully connected to the underlying database.  the connection to the
database is made through the object.open (dsn) call inside the ...

I have VB6 (sp3) installed on a W2K system with an IntelliMouse explorer and
I am able to use my mouse wheel to scroll the code in the IDE.
Same setup on an XP Pro system and I cannot use the wheel to scroll the code
in the IDE.

Hi @ll,
how can i convert a hexvalue with decimalplaces to a decimal value? If i use
the hex-function i only get a long value.
Greet. Werner

VB6, sp5.  Customer gets error when my program attempts to display an access
table.  Uses both datacontrol and ado.  MS Packaging and deployment is
including jet 2.x, and jet2.x odbc and MDAC is being installed.  Any ideas?
Thanks.

Folks,
I've been programming in VB6 for a while, but have just come across the
first real reason to attempt any OO in my progs.
My programs use TDBGrid to display popup grids to assist the user select a

 What I want to do is know when a program executes to open another file, or
accesses the registry, or tries to connect to the internet.
 I realize that these may be different things, but with all the trouble in
the world with viruses and trojans I would really like to know.

test

   Here's an interesting question: I have a registry wrapper class that I
have put together from different samples, modifying ti to suit my needs. One
particular function eludes me. I have a enumerate values function that will
enumerate values in a key, heres a snippet:

How canna you no access Visual Basic In Common Scots
Language!!!. I dinna know wit its sayin maste ae the
time. I thinkin ae jumpin aff a brig cos my gaffer says a
need tae write a program or he says ell chuck me oot ae

I have a VB app that uses Excel automation to create a
spreadsheet from the client desktop. I do not want to
install MS Office in the client machine but just the
selected Excel interface files or library that the VB app

Visual Basic is bad. That is all I can say about it. The
more I think about it the less I can sleep at night, the
functions are so limited. Anyway I don't want to brag but
for me visual basic is far too slow.

When I load an OLE file (word.doc embedded) to the OLE
Container control in VB.6, I can use the AppIsRunning to
create and stop the WINWORD.EXE program.  However, when I
use the OLE.Object.SaveAs method, I can no longer stop

I have vb6, and I have an app that i made. I wanted to
know how can I get the app that I made to look like
windows xp when installed on a xp machine, and not look
like it would on windows 2000?

I want to be able to open a document in word from a VB application and
wait for the user to close it once they have finished working on it
before proceeding with the rest of the VB code.
Many Thanks

Hai all,
Can any one please help me on out of this problem.
I want to calculate a cell value using formula in Excel
through VB.