VB Forum / COM / April 2004

Which files (DLL/OCX) should be updated at current installations? Is there a
list?
Regards,
Rene

welcome to the wonderfull world of vb sp6
I have a CAB file that has worked on about 99% of all machines without
installing vbruntimes because it was based on SP5 runtimes.
Now I have vb6 w/sp6

I have an ActiveX VB6 .exe installed on a Win2K server. As long as I
am logged into the server then the client (running on a different
machine) works fine. However if I log off the server then the client
gets an OLE Automation Error.

Hi!  I need everybody's help.  When I open a vb project with visual basic and try to set a reference to the dll from the project, it appears to show in the project/reference window all of my old dll in there.  I already searched my registry and none of them are in there. I also ...

I have some 1000 of COM DLLs, Now i want to list all the methods, properties,events and imenting interface that an dll can have. I am looking some kind of tool that look inside the dll and give all above info. Hope someone help me on this
Regards
Ratan

I struggling to get my head round layer independence between business and
presentation layers and I'm wondering if someone could give some
advice/tips/pointers.
Suppose I have a tree with  a popup menu facility. Should the menu items

Simple question:
How can I print the text in a multi-line text box?
Help appreciated.
Dave

   Does anyone know if it is possible to perform the feat of a late bound
callback function?
ie)
'I know this is not allowed, but to illustrate my point

I'm learning as I go and have now got my DCOM program working but have
discovered how slow it is. I have a recursive method on the server
that builds an array of objects that I want to return to the client.
After discovering that collections just don't work, I swapped to a

I'm struggling with changing the Icon of my Application at runtime...
What I already found out, is that the WinAPI function 'SendMessage' together
with the message index 'WM_SETICON' (=128) and the switches 'ICON_BIG' (=1)
and 'ICON_SMALL' (=0) should do the thing.

Hi...
I would like to achive the following object model in VB.NET.....not too sure
how to achieve
this but in VB6 I can declare the Project as PublicNotCreatable so as to

I am trying to retrieve a recordset from an activex dll function but I am
having problems. The call from the running vb app calls the dll function
from within a loop so that is why I need to close the recordset at the end
of the function, ready for the next interation. The problem ...

I have experienced a lot of problems trying to have two COM applications
built in VB talk to each other. It seems that even though you maintain the
interface unchanged but only change the implementation it will in some cases
render existing client applications incompatible. (this ...

I'm experimenting using olelib to access structured storage.
I cannot get the the IStream.Read sub to work - it doesn't appear to return
the actual data in the file. I'm not sure what I'm doing incorrectly.
To test the routine, I'm reading a simple Word document that contains only

DocumentComplete doesn't work.
Neither does busy or readystate.
Neither does DocumentComplete pDisp = myIE.Application (although it
comes fairly close)