VB Forum / COM / January 2005

I have a component that writes a property bag. I have a property bag named
'Usuario' that I write the value passed through parameter. When I try to
read the value I receive this error "Data value named 'Usuario' not found".
This error happens random time, not all the time.

I am trying to convert VB version 3 application source files that are saved
in binary format to Version 5 VB so modify and make corrections in them.  I
don’t have Version 3 anymore and have discovered that it is extremely rare to
locate. Are there ways to import them without ...

I have an ActiveX control with a text box.  I need to be able to set the Text
property from my web page at run-time.  
I have implemented the
Private Sub UserControl_WriteProperties(PropBag As PropertyBag),

Help ! How to programmically disable / enable the serial port in VB
some guys said use WMI but have not any sample code .
Have any sample code ....
Thanks a lot

I want to validate Users in the Windows SAM through
a Visual Basic 6 application.
Here is the requirement:
1. Post a Logon Dialog Box (Username, Password, Domain) in a VB6 Form

Im using a Java-COM bridge to access Word from Java. I have managed to
create a OLEContainer containing a new word-document. My problem now is,
that if I try to open an existing Word document using Documents.open the
new document is opend in a new window and not in the ole ...

I have a vb6 sp5 application that works with multiple (non mdi) windows open
at the same time. If a run time error is generated, the application appears
to be terminated, but in fact it remains loaded in the memory, flagged as
locked up by the task manager. Moreover, the processor ...

If a hyperlink is dragged from a web page in internet explorer into an
editor created using the Rich text box control richtx32.ocx a url results in
the editor.
But when I use the following code in vb6 Object being a picture box it

I am opening Access 2002 from a VB6 applicaton.
My VB code is:
Dim DBName as string
DBName = "C:\AccessDb.mdb"

I want to share my class from my applications. I create ActiveX exe server
and myclass1 in exe server. I have 2 applications and I want to access
activex exe server. Msdn samples are for excel and word applications like
Set oXLS=Getobject(,"excel.application")  or  Set

I want to create a process with activex exe. I can create exe server but it
allways appear in applications list in Windows Task Manager. How can I
create a process only show in processes list in Windows Task Manager and
show systray icon, like a spy (Windows messenger , MSSqlmanager ...

can someone tell me how can I drag items from one listbox to another?
thanks in advance..

I have a strange issue regarding vfpoledb and Microsoft JET Engine OLEDB.  I
posted a couple of questions regarding why I can't use ADO and the ADO Update
command to load more than 30 records into a FoxPro table.  When I changed
from VFPOLEDB to Microsoft JET OLEDB it works.  I ...

How can a COM Object be instantiated outside the addresses space of the
calling process (the VB6 program)? In C it can be done passing the
CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER attribute to the calling of the CoCreateInstance function.
Thank you!

I do have a program with source code that is written in VB6.
The target of this program is to switch relais on a board that is connected
to the serial port of the PC.
Unfortunatelly this program acts only in interactive mode, which means that