VB Forum / COM / November 2004

Hai,
I know it is possible to access flash file from vb but I want to know
whether it is possible to create flash animations from vb interface. If so
please let  me know the logic of the above.

Can anyone help resolve the cause of the error:
Err 2147221231 Classfactory cannot supply requested class
This error is triggered by one of the following 2 statements when my VB6
program loads Word :

Hi, I need to pass some parameters between two VB6 exe files. Have found
lots how to do this with command$. Like this example
Call Shell("The other app.Exe Parameters", vbNormalFocus)
and I can pickup Parameters via command$ in the receiving app.

Does anyone know what ActiveX control can be used for creating an Outlook
Express window for creating a new e-mail, with the recipient's name filled
in, rather like mailto in the browser.  I looked for a Microsoft Outlook
Express control in the list of components but found nothing ...

my windows 98 crashes so i installed windows xp.
when i installed vb6 on windows xp, i can not add a
data environment. how can i add data environment to my
my project. thanks.

All
I have an issue with a deployment of VB.NET I'd be interested in your
thoughts please.
I have rolled out VB.NET onto a box running W2K Advanced Server in

I've got a VB 6 project where  I am populating a spreadsheet with data from
an ADO recordset and I've got a couple of questions.
First, is anyone aware of a way to populate the spreadsheet quickly?  Right
now, I'm cycling through every record and field of the recordset, reading

I have a DCOM server with local clients only. The Server is configured
to run as 'Server-user'. But now its is running twice. Why ???
Can anybody help me?

I have an Excel Workbook. Its code calls a dll.
If the user does not have the dll installed, he gets a compilation error.
Is there a way to get around this type of error ? If there was, the user
could use the workbook as any standard workbook and the functions powered by

RetCode = GetPrivateProfileString(AppName$, keyName$, "", tmp$, Len(tmp$),
filename$)
filename$ = NAC.CFG
WHERE DO I FIND THIS FILENAME$  I TRIED LOOKING FOR IT FROM THE DIRECTORY

I installed VS .net and now VB 6.0 won't allow me to create exe files.  I
have a project that was created in VB 6.0, last week I make a few
modifications in VB 6.0, now I want to make a new VB 6.0 exe for this project
but VB 6.0 has the Create ProjectName.exe option disabled.

I am a beginner to VB. I am trying to do the following:
I have a picture control with a GIF image in it. I want to be able to
store the coordinates of the pixels where the mousepointer points on the
image when I press a Key on the keyboard.

I have some Word VBA Clients with an ActiveX EXE engine on the client
Side for every client. This ActiveX call a lot of COM in an MTS
server.
In my Enterprise this set of COM Active X realize the Businness logic.

I shell to internet explorer to open a URL.  I use the windowstate parameter
vbMaximizedFocus but the window does not get the focus, I get the organge
flashing icon in the task bar.  Any ideas why the window does not get the
focus?  I am doing  nothing special in the window calling ...

My Workbook is referenced in my VB program as MyWB. I save it with
MyWB.SaveAs FileName:NewName
Now I want to work with NewName. The following does not work :
Set MyWB = Excel.ActiveWorkbook     (for some reason ActiveWorkbook is