VB Forum / COM / October 2004

I have some problems with the date formats with VB.NET
Here is my code:
dim dDateF as New DateTime()
dDateF = Today

An in-process dll makes the excel executable swell to about 150 to 200
megs while a certain procedure runs. Afterwards, the executable size
stays very large in task manager. However, if Excel is minimized, the
executable drops all the way back to normal size. No other window

I'm working on an application which will automate some jobs using Indesign,
however when I do a CreateObject I'm only able to get one instance of
Indesign up running.
The load this put on my machine is pretty low, so I'd really like to run

I have an Excel Sheet that gets embedded within an OLE Control on my
VB Form.The Sheet gets displayed perfectly but i am unable to save changes
to the sheet back to the same file.
Here is the piece of code that embeds the excel sheet on the VB Form :

I'm wanting to communicate with outlook via ole to compose a new email.,
simple enough but I also want to intercept when the user clicks on the
send button as I need to save a copy of the email in a directory first,
and then allow it to be sent. This is so from my application I ...

Sorry about the shouting there.  This is somewhere between a comment and a
question, but this issue is causing my brain to short circuit (in addition to
other environmental variables which have the same effect), but any more short
circuiting and I'm going to have to change my ...

I want to use two USB printers in a vb6 aplication. For the first one i'll
use the object printer but the other one is for the tickets. How can print
in this printer from VB?
Thanks

Can any one Just tell me what is Is the difference between Tracing and
Degguging

Hi.  I need to be able to dynamically create an XML document in VB 6.0 that
will include the use of xml names spaces.  Is there a version of MSXML that
has a method to create namespaces in the root element?  Is there a best
practices approach to this sort of problem?  Also what ...

I'm going to write a VB program to download a file (text file) from a
cpu which has an IP address. The problem is this is the first time for
me to do a task like this.
What I need is using a timer for every 30 minutes, the program will

I wrote a program that can use a Serial (RS-232) Barcode Scanner (Com
port, MsComm control) which is very useful to capture OnComm Event!
Now, my problem is new computers do not have Serial Port... Welcome to
USB Barcode Scanner! That kind of scanner is emulate keyboard

out of certain reasons, I have to treat a Shift-F10 command in a textbox.
Because of company standards I cannot change the command to another key. But
pressing F10 (oder Shift-F10) opens the Windows system context menu (copy,
paste, etc. ...).

Can someone tell me how to implement something similar to String.empty ??
Given a class called myValue
Public class myValue
   private id as integer

Is there any way to display a form modal to another form in a different
process?  This article
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcon98/html/vb
conusingsharedcoffeemonitor.asp>
touches on that topic.  I am wondering if there is a workaround, maybe ...

I work on an app that has an activeX server and several clients.  I have a
problem that only occurrs on Windows ME.  It works fine on XP, 2000 and 98.
It occurs on a function call where the client client is sending an array of
user defined types to the server.