VB Forum / Win API / June 2005

I've a problem concerning DragDrop in an process created by
CreateProcessAsUser.
Bevor I create this process, i call
LogonUser/LoadUserProfile/CreateEnvironmentBlock and i give access to

Hi! I'm trying to find a simple way to open a DLL, grab a resource from
within it, and save the resource to a separate file. Anyone done that
before? I know I need to loadlibrary, findresource, loadresource,
lockresource, but I'm having trouble with the WriteFile. Any help would ...

Not sure what forum to use!
It is understanding integers are DWORD aligned in a UDT 32 bit
environment.
NOT sure whether a simple INTEGER variable is also DWORD aligned.

Ok, got Randy Birch's version from here:
http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/hooks/fileopensavedlghookadvtext.htm
doing exactly what I want with one exception.
How do I trap / intercept when a user clicks the cancel button so I can exit a routine that called

This makes frmTest as owner of Me, so that Me is always on top of frmTest an
will be closed when frmTest is closed etc. etc.
I try to achieve this behaviour using the window handles and API calls;
tried SetParent(), SetWindowPos() and much more, but without success. Can

Here's my problem...  I have a macine on a workgroup and I want to move
it to a domain.  I set up a function in VB6 to use the NetJoinDomain
API call but it always gives me an error 1326 (ERROR_LOGON_FAILURE).
The problem is that I know the userID and Password work because I can

I'm trying to find a way to load a wave file as a byte array. Currently the
program loads it's wave files from a resource file:
Public Type
   snd1() As Byte

You guys showed me how to write the code below to produce what I think is a
very cool fade in of an entire form. On an XP box now I want to know if
there an equivelent way to fade in just an JPEG image into a Picture Box, or
even better, an Image control which would be placed on ...

How can I remove the closebox button from a window in a multiple document
application ? Do I need the hwnd of the window? How can I have a list of the
windows opened in the specific application ?
Thanks.

I need to get the activedocument window handle for use in a Word VBA module
to call the lockwindowupdate API. How do I get the handle?
Can I then assign a function to a Function key for the users (after I lock
the active window) in case the code stops without unlocking the window ...

I have a little trouble using the GetSaveFileName API function. As you will
see in the excerp below, I have set the flags property of the OpenFilename
structure to
OFN_OVERWRITEPROMPT. However, even when the file preexists, I get no

Hi Gang,
Sorry I know this is mainly a VB6 group, but a lot of you use VB.net as
well.  In my opinion there were a few major problems with VB 2003:
1.  You couldn't modify your code while debugging it

Is there a way to call FtpSetCurrentDirectory so as to navigate to the
parent folder of the current directory, or is there some other function that
achieves this goal?

I cannot find any reference to how I go about renaming a disk file.
I have a note file that is on a path similar to this :
\\servername\sharename\directory\subdirectory\filename.txt
and I want to rename it to

Hi All;
Is there any way to get the motherboard(Mainboard) Serial No?
Regards
Monther