VB Forum / COM / June 2005

I have a multi-threaded ActiveX EXE. One of it's classes uses
CreateObject(ProgID) to get an instance of another class in the same EXE. It
has to use CreateObject because the instance has to be on a thread of its
own -- the 'New' operator would create it on the same thread which is ...

Does anyone know what DLL's I need to load into VB6 to be able to access this
WMI information in windows.   I do not want to use VB Script, please help me.

Sir we have a problem with pound character.
We are using MSXML 8.0.7002.0 (Windows XP) when it loads the xml it throws
error invalid character.
If we have encoding="ISO-8859-1" it works fine.

The dedicated server we host our site on died this weekend. hardware
failures. We got the new machine up fast, our ISP rocks,
Serverarts.com.
Anyway, we got an upgrade to windows server 2003 from 2000 (as it's

We are developing an application in vb. we are able to move,resize some
controls like
checkbox,optionbuttons etc using mouse at runtime. But we are unable to do
it for label. So anyone plz help

I made a VB6 component that it's working great in windows 2000 with classic
ASP, but I'm trying to use the same component on Windows 2003, and it's not
working, I'm getting a message that says ""An exception occurred"
What can I do to fix it?

I created a COM addin in Visual Basic for microsoft word with initial
load behavior as none.
The following was the code that I added to it.
Private Sub AddinInstance_OnConnection(ByVal Application As Object,

When ennumerating the modules for a process, there are reference counts
provided for most, but not all modules.
It seems that those reference counts apply only to teh process, i.e., they
might not appear to include ALL references to the particular DLL.

I am trying to set various column widths in an excel spreadsheet from VB6. My
code is :
oExcelWorkSheet.Cells(iRowCounter, 1).Column.Width = 24
I am getting an error message. Is this the right syntax? If not, what will

Does anyone have some sample code of how to open an excel spreadsheet, edit
some cells and then print, and then close it from vb6?  -32maple

I am pulling a date from a database and it is in the UK format dd/mm/yyyy.
The database reflects this correctly as say 01/04/2001 (Numerically 36617).
When displaying the data as a number it seems to have changed this to a US
format mm/dd/yyyy. The respective number shown is ...

What I want to do is when a node is selected in a treeview, I want textboxes
to display information for the selected record.  How do I do this?  I can't
seem to find anything on this, the closest I find is using datagrids, which
I would like to stay away from.  Any help would be ...

anytime I open Visual basic 6 SP5 i keep getting an "Automation error: error
accessing the OLE registry". I have remove and reinstalled Virtual Studio 6
and still no help.  any suggestions?
Thank you

I got this error when trying to run a program which i think was written in
VB:
Run-Time error '-2147024769 (8007007f)'
Automation error

I have a text file in vb6 in which I am reading data from.  This text
consists of custno and ShipNo.  I need to check the text file and make sure
that there are no duplicate orders.  Sometimes the customer number and shipno
are repeated.  How do keep a count of how many duplicate ...