VB Forum / COM / December 2008

To address your problems, select the Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 shortcut from the Start menu and right-click on it. Select Pr
operties, and the property sheet for the shortcut will be displayed. Next, click on the Compatibility tab. It is recommended that you make the following ...

Hi Sergey,
Apologies for long absence. I am currently working on an Excel link to TWS to customize a daytrading screen - including simple charting. Excel's charting is not great for stocks, and the best chart is the candle, but I use bar charts - so currently trying out a few ...

I have an app that uses OLEDB to connect to an excel sheet ans reads rows
from a named range.  There was a problem with null values being incorrectly
returned.  I add the connection string parameter "IMEX=1" to my connection
string, now I get the "cannot find installable ISAM".

Since 3 days I'm fighting with a percentage calculation.
I have a combo box that shows values from "10%" - "200%".
The device I'm going to control (an automated machine) accepts values of
let's say Speed Min 35 and Speed Max 249.

I am able to pull out a metafile from a rich text control, create a
HMETAFILEPICT for it, save it to disk, and display it with paint.exe.
I now need to be able to do the reverse - load the file, create a
HMETAFILEPICT from it, and paste it back into the rich text control.

Hello! i need know printer names from mi vb6 app running in terminal server
sessión. Just only printer from pc host, not printers from server.
Somebody may helpme.
Thanks

I have a longstanding problem which I've never bottomed which I'm
revisiting again. The problem is that I have one ocx project
("projectA") which I cannot compile with binary compatibility. As soon
as I build it, copy the ocx for a bc image and then try to either run or

I just want to confirm that public properties and functions in a VB6
standard exe project are not visible to, or callable by an outside program.
I know that a program compiled as a VB6 ActiveX exe can be accessed by
another program in the same manner as an ActiveX dll, but an ...

In VB6 I created a DLL with a form including an OLE object with Microsoft
excel chart.
When I call this DLL in Excel for showing form, OLE object is blank. It has
data, title etc, I can retrieve their values but cannot see them in OLE

In VB6 I created a DLL with a form including an OLE object with Microsoft
excel chart.
When I call this DLL in Excel for showing form, OLE object is blank. It has
data, title etc, I can retrieve their values but cannot see them in OLE

In VB6 I created a DLL with a form including an OLE object with Microsoft
excel chart.
When I call this DLL in Excel for showing form, OLE object is blank. It has
data, title etc, I can retrieve their values but cannot see them in OLE

I have some code in a dll
Public Function TestFunction() As Long
    On Error GoTo Catch
    <snip>

Hi :)
Got this strange problem with MS Internet Transfer Control (SP6)
I have two PCs with different IPs
Trying to access a particular website

I have a *.dll that expose a method that accept an ByRef array of
Vba.Collection. This *.dll is used into an *.exe. When I run in debug
mode with a project that contain both *.dll and *.exe, no issue.
Compiling *.dll no issue.

Can I debug (step into) an ActiveX DLL (in VB6) before creating it into DLL
for testing ?
Thanks in advance