VB Forum / COM / June 2006

I am using a Magtek USB credit card reader and for this i m using ocx
controls to read the credit card details. Now actiually i want to read
zip code from the swiped credit card.
Is it possible or not.

can i get some sample code in vb6.0 to download a file from internet
using ftp

Im trying to use the serial port control in vb.net in order to send and
recieve info from a comm protocol connected to my com1 port with RS232 com.
can someone send me the right code te write and read to the serialport?
I use the writeline command like that:

Hello every one.
I have a question about DLL location.
Actually, I use DLL API which makes VC++ in VB application often,
I always used absolute location about the DLL.

can anyone still access this newsgroup ?
microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb
it disappeard on me yesterday and is not available.
Miro

I have a VB6 ActiveX DLL that is referenced by several VB6 Standard EXEs and
WScript scripts.  I've run into a situation where the DLL needs to identify
which host has called it; basically, one step OUTSIDE the DLL's call stack.
At this time, I cannot change the interface to ...

I am using VB 6 to create an ActiveX control to use in IE.  I was using
MSInet to make http requests, but due to some limitations, I am now trying to
use the IXMLHttpRequest object.  I can successfully make the http requests as
long as the web server does not require ...

Hi  friends,
I have tryed  to create thread in VB6 but with few results
I know that VB6  doesn't support, in native kind, multithreading but I have
read that if I create apposite classes I can have good results

As you know Microsoft released a boatload of critical updates this week.
Well, apparently several of our users applied them on their machines (all
Windows XP Pro machines with SP2).  Now, none of our applications will work
for them!!!  We rely upon COM+ components written in VB6 ...

I have a question about the FileSystemObject ReadAll method.  The
documentation states that it reads the entire contents of a file into a
memory buffer.  Does anyone know how it does this internally?  I ask because
we have put some disk I/O monitoring software on our server and ...

I couldn't find a newsgroup more suitable this one for my question so here
it goes.
I have made a VB dll (activeX) that runs on Windows 2003.
It's been installed many places and works fine however, there is one server

I've developed an FTP client in Visual Basic 6.
With this tool, I can download files from a server to a  client through
FTP.
Everything works just fine, except when I try to download  files that

I call dll's written in VC from VB. I use LoadLibrary and FreeLibrary,
but when I close the VB app, it remains in the windows task manager. It
only does this if I invoke the dll call. If I close the vb app before
calling the dll, the vb app task dissapears from the task manager. How

I am writing a large and complex sub procedure in a form, and when there is
too much code I receive the error 'Common Language Runtime detected an
invalid program  ' when It reaches this function during runitme.

I'm having problems setting up a monstrous COM+ Frankenapp on my local
machine. The application works on the development server when I access
it from outside, but I can't use my local version for debugging. The
application works until I attempt to use a portion that requires some