VB Forum / COM / April 2005

Does anyone know how to create an ActiveX exe which does not show up in the
application tab of the Task Manager (only in the process tab)?

I created a generic connection object called ConnRs.dll. I then created a
package using VB pkg and depl. wizard. Then I ran the package which has the
ConnRs.dll, and other files including the app exe file on the user's PC.
After a succesful install,  the user runs the exe and the ...

I am trying to create a ActiveX EXE that wrap the Winsock API
functions. In my standard EXE, there is a Server socket listening for
client connection. Once there is a connection request, the standard
EXE will create new instances of the ActiveX EXE and use the socket in

I have an application that can instruct a cellular modem to send an SMS text
message.  To be sent in HyperTerminal, CTRL and Z must be held together
before the message can be sent.  How do I output CTRL+Z to the modem
programatically?

I have a borderless form.  However, at run time, there is no reference to it
in the task bar at the bottom of the screen (under Windows XP).  Is it
possible to make it visible in the task bar as for forms with borders?
Dave

In my VB application, I have to create a txt file, write the string into the
file and while saving need to set the Encoding of file to UTF-8. By default
it is ANSI. Is anybody know how to do this in VB?
Thanks & Regards,

I have a vb6 dll, that use in a vb6 application. I need to debug my dll. Is
there a way to do this?.
I open my dll project and place break points, then place break points in
application too. When I run this app, it does not go to the break points in

I've got a standard vb project, which compiles to an exe.
It references a second project, which compiles to a dll.
I can compile them both, and they work fine together.
However, when I open just the main project in Visual Studio, and try to run

Could you please help me for my following problem.
I am developing a COM Object with VB 6.0 to be used for ASP.
It has a PictureBox Control in a Form Object
Picturebox loads picture from the dynamically created file.

I come from a VBA environment where I am used to doing things like
abstracting away UI elements like moving items in a listbox up or down
with items... into some DLL that i make with a ListOrderer class which
you use by passing references to the listbox control and all of the

How can I use automation to open a word document in a word window as a child
window of an MDI form? Thanks in advance.

I have some excel sheets that contains too much data in it. What i need is
to import the relevant data from it and store it into my ms sql database
tables.
If anyone have some idea of how could i recognise the relevant data I need

I'm using a 3rd part component (ocx) in vb6 and I have an example (see
below) in VC++ how to use a callback function.
I need to convert that example in VB6, any help would be appreciate.
Thanks,

Is VB6 compatible with Sql Express?  Without having to use ODBC is
there native support for Sql Express from VB6?  I assume OLEDB is not
compatible; could be wrong, have not tried it.
Thanks.

I am getting a compile time error in VB on this line of code:
MyIF.ACollection.AnItem(13).AProperty = EnumMember
This gives me "Compile error: Expected: list seperator" and
highlights the second parenthese.  Has anyone seen this and have