VB Forum / COM / September 2004

I've a question...
I've an EXE ActiveX declared Whit Events.
But I would want to have an array of objects.
In VB I can't use With Events with arrays and if I use a collection I lose the events...

I want to make a collection of Layers. A Layer can be either an ImageLayer
or a FeatureLayer. To make it simple, say I have 2 interfaces:
__interface ILayer
{

Does anyone know where can I get free (and good quality) custom controls ?

I have this DLL that was writen to control a application.
The DLL has methods that then perfome actions on this application.
So i am writing a VB6 application that will run the methods.
One of the metheds is supposed to unload the application and in by doing

VB newbie question here but I'm rebuilding a Vb6 app that includes a number
of ocx's and dll's built using binary compatibility with the last versions
released.  It works ok on the development pc, but when installed on a
different pc and going to one particular form this error ...

Could anybody tell me how COM handles cross references between objects? A
simple piece of VB code below shows that the objects cross referenced are
never released.
The code below will make "a" refer "b" and "b" refer "a". Both objects will

I just wonder if this is possible at all. Let say I have my DLL that
implements several COM interfaces. I would like to be able to get an
instance of those interfaces without usuall COM registration. IN other
words, can I load that DLL and then get my interfaces out of it using some

I have successfully built an ActiveX Exe COM server with Matthew
Curland's ROT classes. I can launch the EXE and have clients connect
to it by using
set obj = <project>.<class>

Hi Team,
I have a client who copies backup image files from one
location to another on a daily basis. The backup program
creates the files in the source folder daily with different

Hi Group!
First Sorry for my english (I´ve a little knowledge of it)
Second, I have this doubt:  Can I use in VB6, my forms created in Access 97
or 2002?

I'm trying to call a VB.NET in VB6.
Since there is no such tinhg as objects in VB6 how do I do the following
code:
Private Sub Command1_Click()

I'm getting infrequent occurences of an odd version of the infamous error
429.
I have a COM object which I wrote in VB6 Pro SP5. This in turn uses a
bought-in third-party COM object to do something. I believe the latter is

Hi,
I have a component (ActiveX dll) with only one class in it. The instancing
property of the class is set as GlobalMultiUse. The project compatibility is
set as Binary Compatible.

I have an EXE application that starts off by displaying an MDIForm1 that has
a menu and a toolbar.  When the user makes a choice from either the menu of
the toolbar, I instantiate the appropriate DLL which in turn creates a form
(call it DLL Data Entry Form).  I am forced to display ...

I recently got XP and a COM/MTS component that has been installed on a
couple of our servers, working flawlessly, has a new problem. When I export
the component now, or just install the previously exported component, for
the application proxy, and I try to create and instance of the ...