VB Forum / COM / May 2005

A newbiew to Asynchronous Serial communications, I have been using
Hyperterminal to connect COM1 directly to a Personal Earth Station,
which acts like a PAD.
Using Hyperterminal, I have been able to connect to the sattelite in a

I have a task.  I was given a WSDL file, and I need to write a VB6-Based
webservice that will expose the correct interface described in the WSDL
File.  Has anyone done anything like this before?  I've done it the other
way before, but never starting with the WSDL.  Are there any ...

I need to diplay an entire Microsoft Word document in a form, and let
the user be able to scroll to its pages.
If the word document is a linked OLE object  I get only a picture of
the first rows and I'm not able to scroll.

I have a class named Val
and a collection named Vals which contains an "Add" procedure
to the collection Vals
When I place a debug.print Vals.Count

I have a VB6 application that has OLE links to several excel spreadsheets.
When I first built the application, several years ago, the links showed the
icon for excel.  I've recently made some mods to the application and the
links no longer show the excel icon, however the links ...

I have an Access database table with OLE object column(Already having
many data). I used AppenChunk method to retrieve the picture. The
problem is that If I add records, then I can retrieve the pictures. But
already stored pictures are not retrieved, giving invalid picture

I have an ActiveX dll which exposes a public class - let's call it MyClass.
Is it permissible to pass back to a client application an object pointer
created with set xxx = new Myclass within the DLL?
For example, can I give MyClass a method like this:

Please,
How can I Open an Acrobat file in VB application.
thank you.

I am migrating some code from VBA to a VB dll.
I have an UpDown control which is not repeating!
In VBA, when the mouse is held down on either the 'Up' or 'Down' button, the
events repeat.

I have written some applications in Vb that work in the following way :
every 30 seconds a timer creates a new ADO connection and a new ADO
Recordset and read from a DB table Mysql if there are certain data to
elaborate. After that both the connection and recordset are closed and ...

I have a database which, among other things, contains several tables that
store information regarding 'real world' objects.
I have a visual basic application, and within that application I have
defined user-defined types that correspond to the aforementioned database

I have a VB app that I am trying to launch by way of scheduled task.  The app
references an ActiveX exe and fails when I try to create an instance of this
object.  I receive Error #70 Permission Denied.  I only receive the error
when I try to launch the app by scheduled task.  

When declaring an array of array, let say:
dim arrTable()() as Variant
I get a message box:" Compile error, expected : end statement"
Thanks in advance for your support.

Hey Folks,
I'm sure that you are all well acquainted with how when one uses a modal
form from within Word VBA or the VB environment, one stays within that
routine until the form is closed and the routine can continue.  The opposite

I'm a C++ and Java programmer who quickly needs to get started with Visual
Basic 6 and VB6 together with COM. I would be grateful for recommendations on
good books, online tutorials, resources etc.