VB Forum / Win API / February 2005

My company has an application that has worked flawlessly on all machines with
the exclusions of Windows XP SP2.  I have traced it down to the api command
IsDestinationReachable.  If we uninstall the service pack, all is well.  Any
Ideas?

Can anyone tell me how to write a simple web server which implement HTTP 1.1
protocol in VB6.please provide sample code also.
Thanks,
Fahim.

 This code hangs on connect() if connect hangs. how to make this so that if
connect hangs i time out after 10 seconds. perhaps there is someway to do
this with ioctlsocket and select? can anyone show how to do this?
sListerSocks[i].status = 1;

I'm working with ~100 MB files and need the most efficient way to
dynamically allocate memory followed by writing it all out to a file
as fast as possible.
I was thinking about using dynamic arrays, something like:

I want my vbcode to create ,edit and read a registry key
How can i achieve this
Any suggestions example wil be highly welcomed
Abhishek

I need to use a temporary image
before displaying the related ultimate (slightly elaborated)
image on a PictureBox1.
In your opinion, is it faster

I'm wondering if any others have come across the following
issue when making new thread in an ActiveX exe using CreateObject()
It seems that a fresh start of the app I'm coding shows 15 threads in task
manager. The problem is that I'm only making 3 so it should be 4 in total

I'm working on a project utilizing drag and drop form one treeview to
another. There's an easy to use module here:
http://www.mvps.org/emorcillo/en/code/vb6/listviewdragdropimage.shtml that
allows you to show the drag image for the label an icon easily, instead of

In my program, there is a string value which I want to convert to 64-bit
long value.
I found out that I can use the StrToInt64Ex API for this.
The documentation of  StrToInt64Ex, tells me to include Shlwapi.h.

I want to find out if a user account is disabled or not. Currently I
use AD (see code below), but I would prefer an API call, because then I
don't have to reference the ActiveDirectoryDLL every time. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!

I just wrote a function that gets all users of a local machine using
the API's NetUserEnum function. Now, there are some users (e.g.
ACTUSER, ASPNET, SQLDEBUGGER etc.), which I do not want to pass to the
calling routine.

I am using GetAsyncKeyState api to trap the print screen button, then a
common dialog control saves the bitmap into a folder in the following
function;
Public Function SSFileName(DefaultPath As String) As String

I want to use the api call CopyFile (have declared it)
But also want to report the error if there is one
These are the instructions I have found so far!.
"If the function succeeds, the return value is nonzero.

I'm using VB6 Enterprise.
I created a scren-capture tool.
I used GetDesktopWindow,
then GetDC,

this is my first post to any newsgroup
In Win XP in Date/Time there is tab named Internet Time.
in that a check box is provided to synchronize the system time with the
server.