VB Forum / Win API / October 2004

I want to develop a small utility to undelete files/ folders from a NTFS
Partition to learn the NTFS basics. Please guide me how i can do it in VB6.
I have developed a small utility to undelete files from a FAT partition. But
Getting problems with the NTFS partioton.

I have a text file generated in previous function and then what to print it
out. However , I don't want to use the Open FileName for Output As #1 .....
As I want to print the text file by just passing the file name, not line by
line.

I'm using DeleteFileA from Kernel32 to delete files from my VB6 app. But
this doesn't conform to the expected Windows functionality of sending the
file to the recycle bin. How can I do this? Is there a single atomic
operation which will both delete and send to the recycle bin at ...

Hi to all,
I'm using VB6 under XP. I need to save some text into an INI file; however
it is UNICODE text. So I'm using the API WritePrivateProfileStringW (and not
WritePrivateProfileStringA which is for ANSI text). The call to this API

Please could you help me here, I am trying to get an external program to
open up in a MDI form along with a few others ( kind of like a program
manager envoriment )
It has a splash/loading screen which does go into the MDI,  but then once

How can I launch an msi setup process from VB6 and wait until it is
complete.  The usual suggestion on how to wait for a setup.exe (launching an
msi installation) is to go to the command line and use start /wait.  However,
"start" is not a recognized command that I can launch.  ...

I'd like to convert a date and/or time to a Win32 filetime in Hex, like the
Windows registry.
Thx,
Robertico

I use a piece of code with Win 98 and it runs fine. Under XP, it fails.
It's about changing a value in the registry.
Using : RegSetValueExLong, it returns 5 on XP (and fails) and 0 on 98 (and
succeed).

I am looking to build a VB app that needs to know about every Windows
machine on the network.  Obviously, if I can access the Netbios Browse
List from VB, that would be perfect.
I know about WNetEnumResource and friends but I am unclear if these

How can I check, with VB 6.0, if a Windows Service is tunnung?
Thaks in advance.
VV

Hi gurus,
I want to create my all drawing function with class in dll from C++.
Is ther any one have any idea for creating graphic api dll from c++ to VB?
Thanks for any help

I have two Apps - the first is OLE-server, the second is a client calling
server to show a dialog form for user to select an item from a treeview. The
dialog is showm as modal. The problem is the dialog sometimes appears hidden
under other apps' windows, etc. Is there a way to make ...

I have spent the last several days trying every imaginable way to write a
DWORD value to a key and nothing seems to work.  I have used just about
every piece of code from this newsgroup as well as code from all over the
internet and no luck...I'm completely baffled at this point.  I ...

I use a piece of code on 98 and XP to write a value for a key in the
registry.
It runs fine on 98, and fails on XP : api error 5.
Any idea ?

Is it possible to create a UserControl using the API?  Here is the problem I
am having:
I wrote a UserControl module that calls RegisterClass, CreateWindow,
ShowWindow.  But the WNDCLASS member lpfnWndProc needs the address of a