VB Forum / Win API / March 2005

I need to read info from the serial port in a program I am writting in Visual
Basic.  From what I have seen it looks like I have to use the CreateFile
function to open a stream to the serial port.  However I cannot find the
CreateFile function.  I am not sure how to access the ...

Hi Mike,
I saw on a Google groups search where you were explaining to Cobalt
how to save the AVI compression options using Ray Mercer's great AVI
code.

I just got VS.NET and have been trying to add video to one of my programs.  I
added the reference library for Window Media Player, but VB.Net still doesn't
recognize WMEncoder.  Anyone know what the problem is?  Thanks.

I'm developing a program that has to access a memory mapped file that has
been created using API functions in another program that is running as a
service (using XYNTservice tool) under Windows 2000 server. When I try to
access the file it gives an

i write a program which run on the clients side, the program need to change
the clients computer settings. i want to change the user's credentials from
the program so the program can perform the change with administrator
privilege.

I need to get the GUID of the primary display driver, as this will be
different from machine to machine.  
I need to get to the key 0000 in:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\

Is it possible to play a videofile using WinApi?? Can someone give me an
example off this.
thx in advance
Dennis

If in Outlook one or more mail messages are copied to the clipboard, one can
paste them in the Windows Explorer and they are put on disk as .msg files.
How can i do this from a VB6 program?
I can only find Text format data on the clipboard with the sender, subject

sorry for the double post, I posted my question under the general
discussion,but I was not able to get an answer.
I would like to know if there is some kind of API or vb code to see if the
XP/W2003 is currently being set. You may have XP installed, but still using

   I am having problems with the Win.Ini under terminal Server. My problem
is that I have 2 applications: 1 that is VB3(16-bit) and 1 that is VB6. In
order for these apps to communicate settings, I use the Win.ini file... Now
this works fine EXCEPT under terminal server. This is ...

In VB6, I am going to make a toggle button that once it is clicked it
"Sticks" to the "Button down" state, and clicked again resume "Button up".
I use the code in module:
Public Const BM_SETSTATE = &HF3

I need to write a small client/server utility and need to use Winsock, which
I've never done before.
I was wondering if the VB6 Winsock ocx is reliable and stable or I'd be
better off by wrapping the Winsock API's into a class module.

Anyone knows how to read NT Event log from VB6 using ReadEventLog API? I
can't use WMI. Thanks

i have a problem with capturing video from 2 webcams using the
"avicap32.dll" because this dll use a unique temporary file "capture.avi"
that cannot be modified. How can i capture video from 2 webcams at the same
time ?

How can I Retrieve The Information about my disk partition and volume as in
diskpart...
I dont want to change anything, I want to get a list of the disk, the
partition, the volume...