VB Forum / COM / April 2004

I hope I have the correct newsgroup...this is my first post here.  I have
been using a Shell function to launch a Word document using a hard-coded
executable path, along with a switch argument "/macroname" to launch a macro
that is stored in a users normal.dot file.  The problem is ...

I posted this to the win32.programmer.ole group but they said it is a VB
question. Can anyone here please help.
How can I pass a string back from a (non COM) dll to VB?  I can do this from
a COM dll, no problem, but I haven't found a way to create a new string in

I've the following Problem: Our VB 6.0 - Application uses the OLE
Container Control to use Word in embedded Mode from the Application.
With Word 2002 the Code works fine, but with Word 2003 we don't have
access to the OLE Containers Data to save the last changings of the

Whenever I try to start WORD 2003 from VB6, by whatever method, or get to an already open WORD, I get an error and WORD does not start. EXCEL starts fine. Everything works fine with WORD 2000. I have not tried WORD 2002 as I do not have a readily available copy.

I have several programs where I have used the same resourcefile in for
icons to be used inside of the application. As identifier for these
resources I have used numbers 1-100. To define the icon of the
compiled EXE I have just defined one special icon for each application

I am trying to print a text document through VB6 to a mainframe xreox printer
The printer does not understand Printer.NewPage command from VB
The page changes after printing 63 lines even though I have printer.newpage command in my code.

I need a fast way to get a collection sorted by its items: I've read so much about how the collection are, but nothing as accurate as I need. I'm figuring out that there will be some kind of method I could use to let a C++ procedure swap pointers to sort the collection, but I ...

I know that you can't define events on secondary interfaces (unless you do a
Matt Curland special .... which I can't do  as I'm not technically able!)
but this is what I need to do.
I've a 'parent' usercontrol which is dynamically loading child usercontrols

I have looked at various NG's and websites and haven't been able to
find the COM Object Model for Windows 2000 Task Scheduler.  Is there
a COM model for this?  I have seen examples related to the old Win98/NT
version of the scheduler.  Can you provide me with an example of how to

Does anyone know how to list the references of your project in run time.
Regards
Dylan Franklin

Has anyone had this problem with VB6 under Windows XP ??
A new folder created in Windows Explorer cannot be seen by VB6 when opening
a project.
However, if a folder is created with the icon from within the VB6 open

As far as it is impossible to resolve email to NT account with using CDO
object (without problems with security) i attempted to solve my problem
with using AD, something like this
   Dim strDomName As String

I have a DCOM server application that I have recently recompiled and redistributed (by simply copying the exe over the old one). The new server has 1 new class, but did not break binary compatabiliy. The client applications now get a runtime error 70 when trying to access the new ...

I have written a VB standalone program that requires a user to input a
machine/computer name...then when the user presses OK it go out on the
LAN and gets computer specific information (i.e. hot fixes installed,
service pack info, serial number, and so on).  This is accomplished by ...

I am re-installing VB6 and can anyone help me to register the old dbgrid32
control on my machine ??
I have copied over dbgrid32.ocx and dbgrid32.dep into C:\windows\system32
(a XP machine). I have forgotten the command that comes next !!