VB Forum / COM / August 2005

OK, so I've seen this asked several times but never answered successfully.
Most say to lookup the ProgID for the CLSID in the registry, and use that in
the CreateObject call, but what do you do when there is no ProgID for the
CLSID? Using the clsid: or new: monikers also fail.

hi everybody I want to know how discard and claim correctly the Memory used
by many controls added dynamic in my form.
for example:
Private Sub CmdAddControls_Click()

Greets,
   I am developing a multii-user application with both a "client" and a
"server" on an arrayed winsock connection.  When the client is opened, a
username is entered into a textbox.  There is no way to know what IPAddress

I know that MS Word provides access to the Task Manager and one can loop
through these tasks and even activate them.
How would one provide the same functionality without using MS Word?
Thanks & Regards,

I am using VB6 and Excel 2002 on XP.
I am using VB6 to call an Excel Macro. The commands are below
Set xl = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
xl.Application.Visible = True

       I would like to change windows system date format. Have anybody can
give me exmple.Thanks a lot.

I am trying to load an image into a picturebox or image control, from a
supplied URL. Is there a way to do this? Or, do I need to code something to
download and save the picture, and then load it like that. If so, any
pointers on THAT one? Hehehehe. Getting a bit frustrated :(

Some time back, I added an Active-X Exe to a project to stop it from hanging
while waiting for a response on an IEEE-488 port.
Now, I am thinking of adding other communication functionality (RS-232,
RS-422, etc.) to the AX.

Jim K
Las Vegas, Nevada

There is a '$'...
Chr$()
What's the $ mean to be included above?

Hi, I am trying to play with the Threading model provided in a DLL project
when opening the properties dialog box.
I can chose between either single-threaded or apartment-threaded but I have
no acces to the radio buttons

I have a VB component that has two class modules, one for reading/displaying
data "read", and one for writing data "write" (transactional), and they are
both in the same DLL. When executing a "write" method, I want to return a
string generated by "read" method. When I tried to call ...

i got a COM add-in and it loads fine in to outlook but if i add the
following line of code so that i can call a function from an outlook form it
doesn't load at all?
application.COMAddIns.Item("DMCRM.Connect").Object = Me

I am very new to programing for USB. I have a USB barcode scanner and I need
to trap the scan before the it hits my textbox. How exactly can I do this? I
am trying to interpret a string of about 440 bytes and there are some
characters in the scan that do not show up as printable ...

I am using the data report and data environment features of Visual Basic 6.
The data environment has a connection to a database. The command takes data
from one of the tables in that database. The problem that I am facing is
that if I display a report and without quiting the ...