VB Forum / COM / October 2007

Ok,
I have to allow some of the .Net work to be available in a VB6 application
we use in house.
On my machine it works fine.  

Anyone know of a thread-safe alternative to a Collection or Dictionary that
could be used in VB?
The existing Collection/Dictionary work OK in STA threaded environments,
except that their storage is per thread.

I have an ActiveX EXE (written in VB6) that has worked fine on Windows 2000
and XP.  When invoked, the calling application can call a method that has the
ActiveX EXE display a dialog box.
The problem is that on Vista, the dialog box ALWAYS appears behind the

I'm using vb.net 2005 and I'm trying to send an email, get the
GlobalObjectID, find the sent email by the GlobalObjectID .... but I don't
know how.
I know that the GlobalObjectID is not an exposed property (yet) and I have

Can someone solve the following puzzle for me? I ran across this in one
of my projects and can't believe this is how VB works. Somehow VB thinks
that 8.62 * 100 <> 862. I have a work-around but really would like to
know why this doesn't work.

We have a huge VB6 developed enterprise application. We have 1500+
window clients (no IIS / ASP) and 8 COM+ backend servers running VB6
components. All database access is done from the COM+ servers which
passes disconnected recordsets to the client.

Can I use visual studio analyzer tool to trace com calls within a
single app? This would seem to be much easier than setting breakpoints
in the debugger.

I am trying to call a local web service. I followed the tutorial here
http://www.codeproject.com/soap/ConsumWebServicefromASP.asp
the MSXML method. Here is my rather simple code. But everytime I hit
the Server.CreateObject line, Visual Basic IDE complains about

This is what I am trying to do. I want to retrieve some data from the server,
let user make changes and then post it back.
I successfully retrieved the data, however there is a problem is saving.
Here is the code:

I'd like to know if and how it is possible to
enumerate all the early-binding refernces of
a VB-DLL?
Especially i need to know whether an MS-Outlook

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