VB Forum / COM / February 2006

I have for sale fourteen (14) Visual Basic 6 books.  I'll take $35 for all
books ($2.50 per book).  I'm selling them as a set only.  I am in the
Houston area.  If you are local to me, you are more than welcome to pick
them up.  If you want them shipped to you, I will charge you ...

I've been completely out of programming for about three years now.  I did
start to do some development with eVB back then, but found it had (in my
opinion) some quite severe restrictions for a programmer used to the
functionality of VB6.

I recently converted to VS2005 and I'm using VB.  I had a DLL for COM interop
developed under VS2003 that worked fine.
After I compiled it under VS2005 and installed on my machine, I get the
error "The system cannot find the file specified" when the following runs

I'm trying to raise an event from a form and then capture it in a class
that shows that form.  The class has the following relevant code:
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Private WithEvents MyForm As FrmMain

hello everyone..
I have a problem you have to challenge..
I've developed a USB device on a tiny IC.
I decided winproc function in VB.

I want to set a value ta a REG_BINARY value in the registry but i dont
know how
this is the value i want to set : 50,00,00,f0
This is how i handle strings and so on

Programming with VB, we will name controls such as 'frmMain'.
How to obtain this name in outer program?
 (For example, outer program knows the WND handle of a VB control,
  and it wants to know the name string such as 'frmMain'.)

Is there a relatively easy way to add an Email link to a form in VB6?
Basically, I want the user to be able to click on the link and have their
email program open.  I have seen OCX's that will do this but do I really
need this, surely there must be a function somewhere that will ...

How do I load & play .wav sounds using resource file in VB6
Thanks, Chuck

i seem to have the problem of vb6 being installed by admin (me) in xp but
users cannot add the components..after changing the registry settings to give
full rights to the simple users as posted by microsoft nothing still
happends. howevwe, the post is not "access denied" but  ...

I have a hidden label (set to same color as backcolor) on a form that when
clicked shows a hidden screen for technical support purposes.  Obviously,
even though the label is very small it could be inadvertantly found and
clicked by a casual user.  In order to make it a little ...

Create Field1 text(10) , bit ;
How do i tell the bit section if it is
yes no or on of
TIA

I have a timer which is on a form.  Every half second, the timer fires,
and polls a commercial stock data-feed program to see if data has come
in.  If the data has come in, my code does various things.  This part
works, but now I want my code to raise an event to indicate that the

I'm using events from a OCX component that is connected to the stock
market.
It's quite simple, the OCX component is put in a Form, the
subscription of a instrument is done during form_load and the events

Are there any PLC programmers out there?
I currently use a VB6 to connect to Rockwell ControlLogix PLCs on the
factory floor.  The connection is slow via an ethernet connection.  A file
can have as many as 8000 individual numbers, but most files are much