VB Forum / COM / May 2006

To the best of my knowledge, here's the situation:
I am running an internet web site that runs 2.0 C# ASP.NET Framework as
well as legacy VB, ASP, COM and COM+ code.  The VB code reads a
configuration variable from the registry, then stores it in its own

There seem to be plenty of components and source code around to send e-mail
via SMTP, but nothing comparable to retrieve messages from the server.  Is
there any source code for this - google draws blanks (for me at least).
The application would be to retrieve certain messages and ...

I need some references about the multi-thread implemetation in VB6.
Can anyone help me?
Thank in advance
Crevit

I am developing a VB.NET application that works synchronized with Outlook
Contacts, but at some certain records that I don't know I get an:
"An unhandled exception of type 'System.InvalidCastException' occurred in
..."

Good day all,
I am having a slight problem when it comes to creating a string buffer
in vb6.
I am doing maintenance on some old code and when I edit an existing

I need to write a plain Windows DLL to feed a VB application. How to write
code to report an error which can reflect on VB's Err object? I searched the
Internet and could not locate an answer...

I'm debugging some code that we just migrated from 1.1 to 2.0 net. I'm
running into some .vb code that was working before.
Dim oParamMod As New Reflection.ParameterModifier(2)
oParamMod(0) = True

I got the error when I attemped to register .dll file to server. The error
message is as follows:
Module c:\program files\ test \xtcexport.dll failed to register.
HRESULT-2147024770. Contact your support personal.

I wrote a function to count the instances of a certain string from
within a file (I'm opening the file for reading using the
filesystemobject), but i can't seem to get the count to work correctly.
When I tested at home on some sample text files it worked, but now I'm

I am new to VB and I am wondering if you any suggestions for what I am
trying to do. Basically, I need to create a Windows Application or ActiveX
object, which will look for any removable drives on the computer and in those
drives it will look for which folder has the Info.ini ...

Is there any way to detect whether a member of a collection already exists
before doing an Add or barring that is there any way to keep the Collection
from throwing an exception if a member already exists?
Thanks,

I'm using a Strong Name Key to create our assemblies, this key has the Full
Trust security so we can use those "mini tools" from network drives...
I'm trying to use WMI to get access to data in our SMS Server...
Now, when I tried to create my assembly I got this message...

My name is ina and I am fairly newbie in vb programming. I would like
to do a little application that simplily open excel and another program
by clicking a button. Could someone send me some useful link or
tutorial online.

Does anyone know the issue that VB Collection object has Memory Leak on XP
sp2 and Windows Server 2003 sp1? I heard it's an known issue from Microsoft
and Microsoft is not planning to fix it. Do we know what is the workaround?
Thanks very much!

is there any way to create PDF file using vb.net code with out using 3rd
party tools.
Plz help
Thanks