VB Forum / COM / February 2005

Hi all!  I have an old executable file in my computer and how can I
update/replce/overwrite it with the new exe file located in the server
I'm connecting to.  It's like I want it to get the new exe file and
replace it before executing the application.  The same concept with

Im trying to set the Persistable Property to 1 so i can use the
WriteProperty and ReadProperties! What do i have to do?? I cant see
any Persistable Property in the property window in my class module!
Please help! its driving me mad, sounds so easy but i cant find it!!

My VB.NET program displays a system tray icon. It works fine and when I
start app it appears and when shutdown app it disappears.
However, when my app crashes the icon stays and only it gets removed
when I point my mouse on it.

Hi Guys, I need to use winscard.dll and hence am declaring the functions that
i need. However, i got stuck in trying to find suitable VB Data types for
LPByte and LPCByte used in SCardTransmit. Any help rendered very much
appreciated.

Can anyone tell me where in the Registry I might find the locations for:
Internet Explorer
Windows Explorer
Outlook Express or other standard e-mail client

I have a form (MyForm) with an array of usercontrols (MyControl)
I'm implementing a secondary interface (IForm) on the form and wanting to
expose information regarding the usercontrols via that secondary interface
e.g. I've a property Get Count

Assuming
   Dim Browser As SHDocVw.InternetExplorer
and that the Browser is created, initialized and a page is loaded
   Browser.Document.Links.Length

we are running a com dll created with vb6 together with a iis 5 and ASP on a
win2k server. This system is productive and works fine at the moment. But
now we want to migrate the intranet server to a win2003 server with iis 6.
After installing my dll and the PDFlib dll (referenced ...

what is the function that calculate the number of days in a given month ?
10x

I am trying to call functions in a DLL that is supplied by a hardware
manufacturer. In a C++ program everything works just fine. In VB however
there is a problem - the program cannot find the entry point in the DLL. I
declare the function as usual:

[My Problem]
I get this unknown error (HRESULT 0x800A1066) when opening a Word file
using MS Word 2003 Automation. I searched the MSDN website and no
results were found. I also searched Google Groups much to no avail. I

I have a C++ COM dll that is used in C++ as well as VB. one of the function
in this dll returns soft error i.e. S_FALSE, In C++ i can check the return
value whereas in VB only errors i.e. E_FAIL,E_NOINTERFACE etc can be caught
as error and S_FALSE cannot be caught. Is there any way ...

I downloaded some code that enables me to capture and print the active form
and added it to my VB6 application.  Strange thing is it works fine on my
development workstation, but I'm not sure how it's working because it
depends on a whole slew of API Declares that refer to GDI.dll, ...

We are running into an interesting problem in an Entierprise application.
Architecturally, we are using a lot of interfaces in VB, and the Main
Application is an MDI Form. With some functionality, a Dll is loaded that
spawns a modal window that is not a child of the MDI.

Hi!,
I want to detect USB from my VB6 Application that has it's own user in
windows 2000 (Professional). This user can only run that application and can
not access explorer and start menu.