VB Forum / Win API / June 2004

Sorry for the crosspost, I first posted this in the wrong group.
I'm building an app that uses a secondary monitor (Dual Display etcetera).
Now I want to add an application, PowerPoint, running the slideshow on the
second screen.

How to run an EXE from inside another EXE ?
I have developed a program we can call it "Big.exe" (100 Kb).
While "Big.exe" is running, "Big.exe" should be able
to launch a second program called "Little.exe" (56 Kb).

I need to find a way to read mfg. HD serial number for a copy protection
system (not the volume # but the actula HD #)
I have a piece of VB code that seems to work well on 2k/XP but is not too
reliable on 9x.

I'd like to manually move the taskbar
after having changed the screen resolution
(because the taskbar doesn't move accordingly).
I'm using the Changescreenresolution API

probably this is a newbie question - forgive me in advance.
I am looking at Ray Mercer's fabulous code to create an AVI file from a
sequence of bitmaps. My only concern is that actually I don't want to prompt
the user with the AVISaveOptions dialog. I rather need to set standard

How to create custom pen (with symbol and mask) ?
Symbol - character to draw ("a" for example)
Mask - sequence/pattern, how to draw line with symbol (for example
symbol/symbol/space)

Is there any way through API to set property multi line on TextBox?
something like scrollbars ShowScrollBar ...

Ok, I've been banging my head against the wall on this one for the
better part of a day, now and am hoping someone can point me in the
right direction.
I have an ActiveX DLL that converts data structures stored in a

For some reason this is not copying to the clipboard, can someone tell
be why?
Private Sub MenuItem2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles MenuItem2.Click

I have been using some windows sockets functions in a program I am working on and noticed a few problems when I try to implement error handling.  I'm using the "gethostbyaddr" API call in my program and to test it I try and get the host name of a valid IP address that is not ...

BACKGROUND:
I think I'm fighting a losing battle here, but I'm having a problem that
seems to be specific to Win2K and XP servers and I'm not sure if this a
programmatic issue or an administrative one.

Where could I find tha control characters that we input in text files so
that we can change the use of a dot matrix printer

The instruction at "0xHHHHHHHH" referenced memory at "0xHHHHHHHH". The memory could not be "read".
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I receive this message when I close VB with UserControls Project, or when I use same compiled UserControls Project in other VB

Can anyone point me at a newsgroup for vb.net please?

can anyone assist on how to call GetNamedSecurityInfo and
SetNamedSecurityInfo in VB.Net 2003?
i can make it work using VB6, but not VB.Net 2003...
any tips would be much appreciated, thanks.