VB Forum / Win API / February 2005

Adding XP Visual Styles to Your Visual Basic
http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/VB/Code/Libraries/XP_Visual_Styles/Using_XP_Vi
sual_Styles_in_VB/article.asp
Any pointers to how this can be applied to forms within an activex dll?
Thanks

how can i change backcolor of a msgbox?
is there any api that can help me ?
thanks

I have a strange case on certain Windows 2003 Server machines, where a call
to CreateCompatibleBitmap will return zero (which I take as a failure
indicator), but when I call GetLastError, the message is "Operation
completed successfully".

In my project I need to change the ScrollBars property of a TextBox between
2 (vertical) and 3 (both), such as the 'Word Wrap' of Notepad. Is it
possible?
I've been trying ShowScrollBar and EnableScrollBar API's but without

Does anyone have a good stable example of using the
UrlHist type library or other method to successfully
delete the IE history from VB???
I have an example using the UrlHist type library but it

I have a file "shortcut to MyFile.exe.lnk" in the startup directory
How to find, via an windows API, the name of the target file ?
(here "MyFile.exe")

This post has to do with this line of VB6 code:
lPID = Shell("c:\OurFolder\OurApp\MySMTPEmailControl.exe", vbHide)
The usual shell question for this newsgroup is how to start an
executable and wait for it to complete -- the answer being

Guys I'm creating a usercontrol which is to act as a control container
exposing a Resize event so that the developers can set their own control
positions as required given the space available.
The trouble is all I have is a window handle so I have to use api to size

how do i find out wich user is logged on to windows?

Hi
How do I get the Domain Name the computer is logged onto.
Many thanks
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I have a USB modem connected to my VB application.
I want to monitor when the modem is turned ON or OFF.
The COM port dissapear when the moden is turned OFF
and re-apear when the modem is turned ON.

I'm using the "SetActiveWindow" API reference in my application (a chat app)
in order for my app to appear in front of other applications even when its
minimized. It works fine in windows 98 but it doesn't work in windows 2000.
I've allready tryed "BringWindowToTop" API reference ...

How can I map and unmap a drive on a computer.
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How can I change attributes for folders in Windows programaticaly?
In command line I can do it with
attrib namefolder +s

Using code by Randy Birch ("Creating a watched folder with
FindChangeNotification") posted a vbnet.mvps.org I am able to monitor a
folder for changes.  What I need to be able to do is monitor a couple of
specific files in a given folder.  Then depending on which file changed as