VB Forum / Win API / January 2005

I'm a VB novice but I'm using some code that I downloaded that retrieves file
information via API calls. I've had to modify the code quite a bit.
Basically, what I have to do is as follows:
1. Access file/folder and retrieve last access date and size

can anyone tell me if the MS Winsock OCX is installed
as part of a DEfault installation of Win2000
If not,
is the DLL present ?

I'm on my final year at university and have to do a final year project. This
project involves writing a windows based program to interface with my
hardware. Being a trained hardware person I don't have a great understanding
of software so I could do with a bit of help to get the ...

I've an app and an external dll that contain a form.
In the main app I've a form, then when I want to load the external
form, I create a new instance of external dll and with setparent api
I attach into the main app form.

Hi (sorry for my bad english),
I work with VB6.
I've a list of TextBoxes I use like a Menu.
When I go on them with the mouse I would to change the font style and the control style.

Does anyone have a (hopefully API) function for a low-pass spatial
filter? I'm simply trying to eliminate noise from a PictureBox picture
scanned from a blocky monochrome image. Thanks.

I have a program which requires capturing/saving an MDI form as a graphic on
a routine interval. While I have accomplished this task, the problem is the
code I am using (and everything else I've tested) requires that the window
be active in order to capture it. This is a huge ...

Can you help? I'm trying to develop some alerts software. Code runs on the
timer control of a form and checks for new alerts for a user every minute. If
there are new alerts then a message box pops on the screen saying "You have
new alerts. View now? Yes/No". I only want this ...

We're having file synchronization problems in our application. Theoretically
this could happen (I guess) if a workstation got out of sync with the time
on the file server. (We use file modification timestamp to keep track of the
latest file.)

In VB6 I used a picture as a "waterstamp" background for some of my printed
forms but I can not get that to work with .NET.
I used the FontTransparent setting for this but how can I do it in .NET?
Any help is greatly appreciated because this might be a showstopper for my

All,
How can you get a VB6 program to tell weather or not you are running it in
the development environment or not?
Cheers,

I'm trying to determine whether the volume is mute or not.  I've been
using the waveOutGetVolume API to determine volumelevels, but I can't
seem to determine whether volume has been muted.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

Mike:
I don´t know if you remember that a time ago I asked you how to resize the
content of some files (from one in natural size and another one in a reduced
and fixed size). The pictures where signatures. My question is the next: if

I am trying to use this api call to schedule an archiving program I created
in VB. It works fine, but when it starts the program, the logon form pops
up. Is there anyway to  programmatically send the scheduler the username and
password you would like it to run with, instead of ...

Hi! All,
I have a Problem. I hope some of you can help me out.
Using VB 6.0 I am trying  to get the memory information of a System in
network by providing the its network username and password.