VB Forum / COM / October 2004

           Could anybody please point towards an article that explain how
to write a DCOM component in visual basic?  If I build a dll on a local
machine how would I configure it to run on a different machine?  I'll be
using Windows XP on both machines.  I've turned on DCOM in ...

I am using MSComm control in my VB DLL I have to invoke the dll method form my main program which will send some commands through MSComm control and wait till receive error or success code.
My problem is how I can do this thing asynchronously that is control should return from dll ...

I was trying to develop a Terminal Client with my own touch but..
When I'm trying to add the Control to vs.net2003 then I get an error like
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Compiler errors occured when generating a Windows Forms wrapper for ActiveX

I have written an ActiveX OCX in VB6. It's a wrapper for functionality in a
.NET dll a contractor & I wrote together. It works great on the development
computers.  An MSI install package developed by Wise for Windows Installer
successfully deployed it to a couple of client computers ...

I am the admin of this network. I want to be able to kick off scripts on
remote computers AND have the script access resources on the network. Kicking
off the script on the remote computer has worked without a hitch as long as I
do not access any resources on the network. If I ...

How can I programmatically print a TREE structure or the normal windows
directory structure using VB DataReport?

Is there a way to read pdf files and display them on the screen with VB?
When yes, how can I do that. I've searched the net, but can't find what I
need. I've seen a module somewhere a while ago, but I can't remember where.
So, folks, if there is any one who can help me out, I ...

I was trying to develop a Terminal Client with my own touch but..
When I'm trying to add the Control to vs.net2003 then I get an error like
**
Compiler errors occured when generating a Windows Forms wrapper for ActiveX

I have developed a VB COM application that essentially obtains data from a
reporting tool and then adds it to an Excel book.
The VB app runs under a local administrator. It runs the reports for more
than 2500 users and creates an indetical number of Excel books.

I have i problem I need help with.
I have a sheet in Excel named "Sheet1". In this sheet I have three items.
Cell B1 = Item1
Cell B2 = Item2

If you have to blindly access an object member using CallByName ( -- I have
good reason, but this margin is too small to explain why -- ) then how can
you tell whether it's a property or a method?
For instance, given an object reference, and a term to be applied such as

I'm using the following VB code:
Private Sub Form_Load()
On Error GoTo ErrForm_Load
   Dim sURL As String

How do i do a PING to a specific IP address via VB6 code?

SCardTransmit returns error code 22. could anyone help me.
Thank u in advance

I need to make asynchronous calls to a class I developed because this
class in turns communicates asynchronously with an external system.
To do that, I know I can use a timer and set it to, say, 0.5 seconds (is
there a minimum limit? is it really 1 milisecond?). The event handler