VB Forum / COM / September 2006

Guys,
        Trying to install an vb6 application which was developed on
windows NT  . Due to some reasons i had to migrate on windows 2003
server.

There appear to be some (undocumented?) side effects when using fixed
length strings in VB6 - in that one can't seem to be able to concatenate
them to other strings for example, the rest of the string is lost.
An example below will hopefully, illustrate the problem further:

I am having problem accessing my vb6 ActiveX.exe from a client host. I read
all the responses in this thread but have not been able to get it working
yet.
I have no problem connecting to the ActiveX from my client app as long as

for some reason this line 'mdbFile.OpenCurrentDatabase(mdbPath)'
fails to work on a 'window service' project
on a simple project (not service) it work's perfectly
does anyone knows why?

Some of the User Defined Types return empty when a call is made to our
Mainframe.  Any ComTI components created on an old 2000 machine and
installed on 2003 servers work fine.  But if we create new duplicate
components with UDTs in them on 2003 servers and attempt to use them then ...

Trying to open my VB dll in OLE Viewer displays the following error,Could not
decompile selected Item,Error loading TypeLibrary/Dll TYPE_E_CANTLOADLIBRARY
($80029c4a).If i OK the Error it takes me to the description of the classes
and the interfaces of the dll.I am able to Open ...

I am working on a C++ library which exposes some functions to VB. The
C++ library uses an ActiveX control to pass data to VB. The data passed
to VB is actually serialized data C structures.
(Part) of the ActiveX interface is declared like this:

i have a problem with visual basic .net
i tried  to capture certain fields of a log on page.
i see that netscape can find or capture that fields one of log in and
the other passwors among others like names surename birthdate and if

I'd like to start with COM development using C++ but I'm totally at a loss about how to go about it.
I've got VS 2005 but how do I create a COM component with it?
I've got Inside COM and ATL internals but they assume a lot of basic knowledge that I don't
have. I do know C++ (from ...

I create an array of checkbox in my program, but I have an erro while unload
an element in run time. the Object I try to unload created at run time!
The error desciption is : unable to unload within this context
if I try to unload the object in his event or in other object event's ...

Hey can someone remind of the website that works with the forums here?  They
have all kinds of info, code samples, etc.  I have been wracking my brain
and I cant remember!!!
Thanks

We tried to use user defined types in events of our OCX.
Using this control in a VB6 project works, but in another environment (i.e.
MsAccess) it didn't. The event doesn't show up in the event list and other
problems occured.

Can I use 'regular expression' to validate some input string, such as email
address in VB 6. We have a VB 6 class library invoked by our web apps.
Thanks!

What is the difference between VB 2005 and VB.NET? When I went to buy the
study material from Keystone Learning site and I happened to see that there
is VB 2005:  Building Windows Applications.
Can anyone explain to me please

How do you grab and save an Image Using ADODB.Stream component ?
Any Idea or a Sample code is sincerely appreciated.
Thanks,
Sunny