VB Forum / COM / February 2005

I'm trying to directly reference a specific cell in excel from Vb.net, only
when certain combobox's display the correct things.
The Idea is, if a client wants a product with specifications, the price will
change from the normal, these prices being located in different cells in

I'm using VB6 to print two reports from Access 2000 (running under WinXP Pro).  Unfortunately, when I use CreateObject, multiple MSACCESS.EXE processes are started.  If I kill the processes, the reports print fine.  Can anybody help?
Option Explici
    Dim acApp as Objec
Private ...

I have a customer who is experiencing intermittent errors
that usually occur during slow network periods, such as
the lunch hour and late in the day.  They only have a
half duplex network.

I've got a copy of Visual basic 2005 express, and I am having problems with
automation. sing the
Imports Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel
Command at the top of my code, but still Excel objects aren't being made

I've been trawling through all of the newsgroups and I've found lots of
information on Excel automation. The problem I'm having is with the first
part of the code:
Imports Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel

Does anyone know if there is any way to get the word count for headers,
footers, footnotes, etc. for a Word document?  This is not available in Word
itself, but I thought perhaps it was available in automation.

I am attempting to build integrated help for an application.  I have an old
copy of RoboHelp (9.x) and was looking at the new version X5, but they want
$700 to upgrade.  
Does anyone have suggestions for a good tool to help build the help system,

Hi,
 I am trying to use polish characters in VB strings. I am getting these
characters from excel cells. Even if I set by these strings in VB, same
problem. In excel, Polish characters are there but when it is read by VB,

I'm doing Word Automation via VB6 against a large number of documents.
If a Word Document is severly damaged, it causes Word to hang when it tries
to open it.  Subsequent attempts to open a document give you a message about
how it caused a severe error the last time it was opened ...

I have a form that loops through a recordset, and then sends data to a web
service.  I want to put the ability to break the loop by pressing the Esc
key.   I can't get the form keyPress, or keyDown events to fire when the
form itself doesn't have focus.  What is the preferred ...

I have an ocx that I call from within a webpage . This webpage is loaded
from within a client/server application that is written in Centura .
Whenever I start using the 'strtable.dll' in my ocx , our main program
crashes as soon as it also wants to call the 'strtable.dll' .

I'm using word automation from a VB6 application. Is there any way to
get the word error code when something fails? Something like
application.err ?
Thanks for your help

Say I have a dll ABC.dll, which is not registerable which is developed using
C++.
I want to use this dll on VB code and access a public function MyFunction().
Please advise on this.

Flow:
Main Thread - Creates New thread by passing Method.
Secondary thread Method does the following things:
1. displays modal form.

I´m dealing with the problem that a dcom client program should register
itself on a different pc in the network, on which the dcom server program
runs but cannot change registry values unless the user on the client pc
belongs to the administrator group on the server.