VB Forum / Win API / August 2005

I need to know how to set an image on a button (via the Picture property)
and have the button assume the shape of the image. The image is quite
simple; not as complicated as an irregular shape like a map or something
(but if the solution covers this too that will be nice). For ...

I have coded an Open Dialog box using windows API instead og the Common
Dialog control.  I have to code all the file associations so that when a user
selects a file and hits the Open button, the correct application will be used
to view the file.  Is there a way to reuse the code ...

The scenario is this...
I have a vb form with a rich text box and a picture box. I am using
sendmessage to copy the picture as a bitmap from the picture box to the
rich text box.  The rich text box eventually ends up with several

I wish to wrap system image list and as result to get ImageList Control with filled images from system image list!?
[SolarAngel]

The scenario is this...
I have a vb form with a rich text box and a picture box. I am using
sendmessage to copy the picture as a bitmap from the picture box to the
rich text box.  The rich text box eventually ends up with several

Hi, how to make a window snap to the desktops border?
and also shrink the desktops workarea after snapping the window?
I mean like ICQ, or Miranda-IM does
//Siegfried

Does anyone out there have some sample code for doing this?  I've Googled
for hours over this one.
I'd even take C++ (shhh!) code that I can convert.
Thank you!

I would like to find all the shortcuts of an exe because I need to
delete them from my delphi application. How can I found them?
Does anybody can help me?
Thank you

Q1:
I have something like this in C
<...>  (const GUID guid, <...>
is this same in VB as (I would love that it is, but I afraid that it isn't):

Dopes anyone have code for returning the MAC address of any given IP
address. I have already tried Randy's
http://vbnet.mvps.org/index.html?code/network/macaddressremote.htm but it
crashes on certain machines (mainly XPSP2 and Server 2003SP2). I have code

I have declared following API
Public Declare Function mciSendString Lib "winmm.dll" Alias "mciSendStringA"
(ByVal lpstrCommand As String, ByVal lpstrReturnString As String, ByVal
uReturnLength As Long, ByVal hwndCallback As Long) As Long

Hi, how to get proces filename if i have only handle ?
I tried to use GetWindowModuleFileName but it gives me usualy empty
information.
For example i have a handle 25444 and i want to get something like that:

I've posted yesterday for with the topic "How to delete a write-protected
file". I get some answers and they were good.
But I wan't use the Setattr-Function from VB. Is there a API-Function which
can do the same?

Lo
First i would like appologize for my bad english.
I use to work with gdi and vb6 but I need new fonctionnalities that I can
find in gdi+. But I dunno gdi+.

I am trying for some weeks now to write this code but find any help on
the web.
I want to send any file to the printer.
how to send a word document (c:\test.doc) , jpeg any known file type to