VB Forum / COM / January 2005

Hello everyone, I have a problem running a software program on one
computer that I can?t figure out. I have run this program on at least
100 other computers with no problem but this one is failing. The line of
code that I think it is failing on is when I am trying to retrieve the

I have a VB6 form with text boxes and command buttons on it.  The focus is
initially on a text box and I would like for the Enter key to cause the
focus to move to the next text box in the tabstop sequence just like the Tab
key does.  Does anyone know how I can do this?

Hello, we have some code that uses TypeLibInfoFromFile(string) to get
information from an ActiveX dll. Recently, one of our developers started
getting an Error 429 ("ActiveX component can't create object"), and I
narrowed it down to the TypeLibInfoFromFile(string) call. No other ...

Hi!,
I have a problem that I am calling Win32 API ExitWindowsEx() for shutting
down windows i am also setting the Application privileges to be able to
shutdown the system.

Hello world of experts,
I know this is no Excel VBA newsgroup, but there is none as far as i know.
I am trying from VB6  to access an Excel object and am filling okay a
spreadsheet. The only thing I cannot do is to left justify all spreadsheet

This is a beginner's question.
My ExcelVBA code calls a VB6 dll.
At present, not knowing otherwise, I debug the dll the following way : I
compile my dll in vb6 (using exit subs

I don't know if this makes much sense.
The problem I'm having is that my vb application opens an excel object
that has a macro.  When the vb application runs this macro (via
objexcel.application.run), the macro runs very slowly (much slower than

Hello All. I just lost two harddrives. While putting everything back
together the only problem I had was reinstalling vb6 professional. Yes
it is a legal copy.I could load it and run it but if I tried to put
(lets say) a listbox on a form it would fault and end vb. I manually

I can open a website with the following script:
<script LANGUAGE="VbScript">
Set IeAppli = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
IeAppli.Visible = True

When compiling my project to an .exe I get the following: "License
information for this component not found. You do not have an apropriat
license to use this functionality in the design environment".  This message
occurs when writing to the exe file.  My question is how to ...

I'm migrating some stuff from MTS to COM+.
In the MTS component we use the SecurityContext.GetOriginalCallerName() to
find out the NT UserID of the client. This doesn't appear to  work in COM+
and we end up with the userid that the component runs under.

Is there a way to use VB and OLE to create an Excel program, and then create
a macro in that Excel program?

I´ve made a dcom client and server application (based on the howto´s from
the ms kb) and that works out fine. But when I distribute the client it only
connects to the server on pc´s that have admininistrative rights in the
domain.

I have a VB app that opens and closes a Word doc. I have the following
declarations:
 Dim wdApp As Word.Application
 Dim docNew As Word.Document

I am attempting to use WriteFile(...) from WIN32API to write the contents of
a byte array to a file (Visual Basic seems not to provide its own
functionality for such file creation).  However, I cannot get WriteFile(...)
to write the contents of a given buffer out properly.  Has ...