VB Forum / Win API / December 2005

I use the WinAPI-Method StartService() to Start a Service.
This is from the MSDN:
BOOL StartService(
 SC_HANDLE hService,

I am starting on a project that requires a 3rd party DLL to interface with
functions to interface some equipment.  They gave me a sample VB6 app showing
the Declares, etc.
I HAVE SAVED THE xxxx.dll IN THE C:\Windows\System32 folder.

I doubt if there is anything that can be done about this:
I have a form with a listview, the listview has the LVS_INFOTIPS flag set to
show tooltips for any entries that are wider than the column. I also have
the form set to stay on top (SetWindowPos).

during my past years with VB, I occasionally stumbled across the "out of
memory" error. I couldn't help but notice that it's rarely the virtual
memory that has run out (which I would have guessed from the name of the
error message alone), but often some other system resource that's ...

I've got a text box on my form. When the form loads, the value of the text
box is set to '*.*'. I've just changed the text to 'Scrape!". When I spy
this text box, Spy++ reports a Caption of '*.*' which is the same value that
I get when using GetDlgItemText. But this doesn't ...

We use the netapi32.dll to retrieve machine names and users on our
network.
The problem is we have NT4 and W2K machines. When I run our code from
my NT4 machine

Given the hWnd of an application Window and the control ID of a control
within that window, how can I find the control's direct parent?
You might be tempted to say 'dude - you've already got the hWnd - use it!'
but this doesn't always work. I've got a Form which has a group box on ...

My able great minds,
I am writing a project on securing a personal system using XP as a case
study. The program is all about hiding your taskbar and your desktop
icons; but the problem i have now is that, I dont know how to code in

Hi, Im trying to read a single byte from the memory of another process in
VB.net.
This is to create a stand-alone module/wrapper for inclusion in other
programs.

I have a picture box, and the data is not loaded by
picture1.picture=loadpicture("picture.jpg")
I use the mehtod to load byte array to picturebox directly:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.vb.general ...

Wich APIs I should use to read pixel values (colors) inside the bitmap
object?
I'm using vb.net and it's GDI+ interface, but I would like to have something
faster for that

I need to use a 3rd party DLL from VB6.
Normally this is no problem for simple function calls by just
declaring the function calls in the DLL. But this one I have not done
before and googling does not help me either, so I am asking here.

   I would like to know what API that I able to call the popup Voice tab
inside the Sound and Audio Devices. My Application would like to do Test
hardware function for the user using my program without manually go for that
tabs.

I have extracted the Image File Type using GdipGetImageRawFormat and
PicWidth using GdipGetImageWidth and PicHeight using GdipGetImageHeight
My question : Is there a GDI+ function that will yield the Color Depth
stored in

hi all.  i'm hoping i'm in the right place.
i've written (in VB6) a windows shell replacement that converts a
standard windows machine into a 'thin client terminal' (ie it replaces
explorer.exe and the rest of the desktop with a form that has choice of