VB Forum / COM / June 2004

I have created a ActiveX DLL and can pass a variable a variable to it
ok.
But i need to have a return variable upon clicking a command button on
a form on the ActiveX DLL.

I have been using three custom built dll's to maintain sessions and
handle the connection to an SQL db. I have used these dll's for many a
website. I have never had a problem using them. But now I am trying to
setup another site and i continue to get the following error message.

Dear,
       Problems occur when I set com port to 6 and above, using MS. Comm
control.  The input I receive become funny characters.
       But it does not happen when com port is set to 5 and below.

I need a vertical label to display current date & time in my application.
Anybody can give me a pointer to this?
Best Regards,
Kelvin

Hi @ll,
i have to show 200 gauge points in a mschart-control (x-axis = time). Is it
possible to show only every 10th gauge-time so that the user can read the
timevalues under the x-axis ?

I wrote a active-x dll, which provides a class clsSolver. This class
implements an interface provided by another class 'SolverBaseClass'
using the implements statement (For the example below: one of the
implemented class member functions is GetVersion).

I want to store an excel file in a database field. Then I want to read that
field and convert to excel file once again using VB6. How can I do that? Any
idea or can anybody provide me the sample code?
Thanks

I am seeking some winapi or vb way how to get HANDLE from POINTER.
The only way I have found is to use GlobalHandle, but when I try it with vb
pointer, I get only pointer again.
Any ideas?

I'm calling a function of a COM object in my VB app. The problem is that I'm
getting the 'server busy' dialog every time its being called. Is there any
way to set the timeout for this dialog?
Regards,

Within a DLL I am referring COM+  Service Type library and
COMSVCS.DLL but when I am rolling back the transaction by
ObjectContext.SetAbort then that rolling back is not being
performed.

i'm trying to open and handle a Word (XP) application from my aspx page (on
a Win2000 server, lastest SP on both server and office): i can instantiate
it (i've tried with "new" keyword or also the CreateObject method, they both
do work), but when i execute w.Documents.Add it throws ...

Hi, I'm looking for a way to rename a whole directory of files in short
order. The files in the directory have different lengths, however all of
them end with _xxxx the x's represent a randomly generated number from a
program that I saved from. So I need to find a way that I can

I am developing an out-of-process ActiveX server (ActiveX EXE) and have a
standard application that references it.  Both are VB6 projects.
I have specified binary compatibility for the ActiveX server, but needed to
make a change that broke binary compatibility.  I know that this ...

I been awhile from programing for several years and just now getting
back in to writing Visual Basic Programs and having some problem learn
the new version of Visual basic 6.0 so I developen a program with a
small character that moves along a game board the program work fine but

I need to pack the directory to zip or another one file in VB6. How can I
run the WinZip from VB6: API or COM?
TIA
Eli