VB Forum / COM / June 2004

I'm wanting to automate excel in my application. Unfortunately after
clicking project... references... i tried to create a referance to the
Excel 8.0 type library and it wasn't there. Neither was the word type
library. Is there something i haven't installed. I've recently

i'm a student informatics and i'm busy with a music database project.
I've a database with all my songs in and i want to play them with Windows
media player.
So i have a listbox, when i select song they stand in that lisbox and when i

This message is also posted in vb.ole.....
Here's what I'm trying to do.  I have a VB6 program that creates an Excel spreadsheet.  After the spreadsheet is created, I want to open the spreadsheet within my vb program, so that the user can enter data into the cells, and then click ...

I'm using the MSComm function to communicate with a microprocessor.
Everything works fine except for one thing:
at the end of my MSComm_OnComm() sub, I prompt a simple message box, and
after that message box, I want to close the form (which has the MSComm

  I have a large DLL, which is having problem compiling with binary compatibility. The size of DLL is 1.48 MB, and whenever the project is loaded its giving "Error in loading DLL" and when I compile the DLL, still getting the same error. It looks like its the size issue, as I ...

What  kind of type has controls property in VB6
I tried code
dim a as collection
dim b as controls

I am writing a simulation program in VB6 Professional for a museum restoration project. The program involves a great deal of machine interfacing and uses a number of serial ports. I'm using USB to RS232 converters for COM3 to COM8 to obtain the number of ports required
VB/MSComm ...

Does anyone have any coding samples, tutorials and sources for developing a
client program with MS Active Accessibility library 2.0 in Visual Studio
6.0?
It would be greatly appreciated.

I have a  aplication inVB6, XP.
all is good if i login with a Administrator user
But if i login with a normal user, i have a automation error xpto.....
What is the problem....Previleges ?

I am trying to feed a table (open as a recordset) with existing ole objects,
but it doesn't seem to work.
Does anybody have a hint for me? (kind of sample code)
thanks in advance!

can anybody tell me why this VB lines:
dim xlApp As Excel.Application
dim xlWkb As Excel.Workbook
Set xlApp = New Excel.Application

Hi to all,
i'd like know how can i put icons (from a collections of them) in a popup
menù, but not using external ocx, but with pure vb method?
Thanks to all,

I need from an EXE project inicialize a DLL where i have a form that i need to inicializ
several times from diferente places from de EXE
How can i do that

I work in VB6. In project that I do now I need to change the size of form
and all of its controls according to resolution of screen. I get current
resolution and standard and multiply all tops and heights on the same ratio.
All works fine until I do not have tab control on the form. ...

First of all, please excuse me if this is not the right newsgroup to post
this Q. I have tried the AS400 newsgroups without any luck.
My question is:
Is it possible to call a Win32 COM Component or a EXE from an AS400 system