VB Forum / COM / July 2004

I've been use in automation to open MS Word, do some things and exit.
Before I exit I would like the user to be able to do some things.
So I thought I could just check to see if the user closed the document or
exited Word.

I've used the code from this website to persist my VB6 objects as XML
http://www.vb-helper.com/howto_vb6_serialize.html. This code uses The Type
Library Information class TLBINF32.DLL.
Works a treat on my development PC, but when I run it on another PC I get an

I tried this question before but I dont think I was very clear!  Subject
"COM automation with many instances?"
I have many instances of an activex exe server running on one machine.  They
are each doing the same task over a different set of data.  They know which

I need to handle events from ActiveX. If this ActiveX is on form, I just
create Subroutine with the object name, the underscore and the event name,
and all works :
 Private Sub PivotTable1_OnDisconnect()

    I have Visual Studio .net Enterprise version 2003,
as well as MS Office.  Here's what I want to do:
    Read an Excel file into Visual Basic.  Show it or
some fields of it somehow.  Alter what I need to alter,

Just thought I'd post a few links to what I've done to share with others
(not that its anything great, but I think starting a thread like this would
be a good way for others to see what most of us have done- will be
interesting!).  Check them out... Any comments, questions or ...

I have a Java program which needs to interface to a system which only
supports VB. I wanted to write an ActiveX DLL in Visual Basic and have
it called from the Java code. I need to call methods in my java code
from the VB dll. I have a library to transmit a callback function to

I'm migrating an application from Windows 2000 Server to Windows
Server 2003. The application calls Java classes through COM. It used
to work well through msjava.dll in Windows 2000 Server. However, after
migration to Windows Server 2003, it failed because msjava.dll doesn't

I may have asked this before, but since I'm asking again, I must have not
gotten a straight answer.  That or I'm dumb as a rock.
You know how you have a progID like "ADODB.Connection" or
"Outlook.Application", etc.

I am making an App in Visual Basic 6 and I was wondering if there is a way to get it to have an icon in the system tray, from which basic commands would be accessable via a simple pop-up menu.
If there is a downloadable reference/control that could make this easier i would much ...

I currently have a COM server and client that have been developed in
VB which uses RaiseEvent on the exposed objects within the server. I
am currently looking into the possibility of developing a common IDL
for the server interface so that a server can be developed using ATL

how can i do.please help me?
thanks

I have an activeX dll. Lets say its version is 1.0.0.0. Now, in my new
version, I have the same dll but with a new version: 2.0.0.0.
In my application I want now to create an object from version 2 and not from
version 1. Nevertheless, I still want that an old application  that is

I need to find out if a file exists on the remote server. Here is my code:
Dim oFileSystem As FileSystemObject
Set oFileSystem = New FileSystemObject
If oFileSystem.FileExists("\\ServerName\D$\FolderName\file.txt") Then

Can't get the package and deployment wizard to make an installpackage that
works.... it says "invalid line in setupinformation line"
the line who doesn't work seem to be:
File1=@VB6STKIT.DLL,$(WinSysPathSysFile),,,6.1.99 12:00:00