VB Forum / COM / July 2005

I posted this same question months ago but never got a response. Im still in
the dark as to what to do after all this time.
Basically, I have an application which can be run in multiple instance mode,
and I need a way for a client to obtain a particular instance and its COM

i would like to spell check user input before saving.
Any way to use the outlook express spell checker?
thanks
Rafael

I'm new here so please feel free to point me to another group if this is not
the right one.
I'm using the following VB code to conduct a Mail Merge.
The code is running on XP under MSO 03 (Word VBA6)

I have an application in Access which relies heavily on Subforms. I have
downloaded VB 2005 Express with a view to replacing the front end and
keeping the Access database. I have never used VB before. Is there a way to
easily implement subforms?

Ladies / Gentlemen,
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problem, I started simplifying the code ... and finally ...

I have recompiled the all com modules in my software, and I have checked the
IDL file, the header file, the cpp file and the function I want to call is
there. But when trying to call it through VB6 I get "Object doesn't support
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string) deployed in MTS on windows NT . The component is using from asp code
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and added it to list of selected components in Add Reference Dialog

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every class variable I want to expose to Excel VBA projects in COM builds.
Can anyone tell me if that is possible, or refer me to some documents that
will make me understand why this apparent limitation of ...

Apologies for posting this again, not sure which is the right group,
As you may know, an ActiveX DLL can only be unloaded when all references to
public objects it provides are released (whether these are external
references, or within the ActiveX DLL itself). (Or forcefully ...

Does anyone know a way to set the 3rd version number in VB6?  It seems VB6
always uses major.minor.0.revision.  Unfortunatly I need to use the third
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Does anyone know how this can be achieved?

I have set up a mail merge document in MS Word I'll call MyTemplate.doc  I
run  Mail Merge to merge with a text file called MyData.txt.
I'm using VB to generate a new MyData.txt file.  Has anyone ever written
code that will load MyTemplate.doc, instruct MyTemplate to mail merge ...

I am using VB 6.0 to develop a Windows application, I do set
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from the parent widnows, I call "myForm.Show vbModal" to display a
dialog, no new icon shown in task bar, and if user switch to any other

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starting position of Excel sheet by identifying 0xD0 0xCF characters
and extracted the data and serielized as xls file. While trying to open
the in Excel, neither it is opening nor it is throwing error. I could