VB Forum / Win API / March 2006

I would like to know if it's possible to copy bytes on more than 1 page
of 4 kb on the host. I have data from an external card, and I want to
copy back to a special place. The question is if it's possible to copy
theses data on more than one page : imagine the "offset" is at the end

Hi how and where can i get the following details
1) what a winapi function returns
2) what a winapi function takes as arguments
3) that the arguments should be passed byref or

I'm using the DrawText API to output text on calendar appointments (much
like the calendar in Outlook, only better ;-). The text to draw is given
from the name and description of the appointment, and the available
rectangle for the appointment depends on date and time displayed.

I have an app that uses and registers a file extension so that I get an icon
for it and when the user double-clicks on a file my app opens up and loads
the file.
I've noticed that on WinXP (maybe even earlier versions, I don't really

Hello, I'm Nicola from Italy, I'm porting an old VB6 application in VB.NET
2005... The problem I have is with the GetVolumeInformation() API to get the
Volume serian Number of an Hard Disk. I found a lot of code on the NET using
this API in VB.NET but noone seems to work ...

The description of the Win32_Find_Data structure documents how to determine
a file's size.
Well, the described method does not work for large files, e.g., for a file
of 25406543872 bytes.

I am writing a program that has to with hiding the desktop icons and
the taskbar but I have a problem along the line.
When the icons are hidden, a blank background will be left, but the
background will respond the double_click event. i.e when u double click

how to get total hard disk size in Visual Basic
as well as RAM
what r other functions in kernel32

Hello at all,
Ive a problem with Windows API. I like to switch the record from
"Microphone" to "StereoMix".
How can i do that? I looked since two weeks, but i dont know, how i must

How can i convert a "Pixel dimension" value to "Document size" value in
centimeters.
(800 x 600 = 11,29 x 8,47 cm)
Is there some formula ?

i wrote a little app to detect if any user is present.
I wakeup my pc with a schedule task from Standby and IsSystemResumeAutomatic
returns True. (ok)
Now the same with wakeup from hibernate ->  IsSystemResumeAutomatic returns

I'm vry new in vb.net idnt have any ida abt which is the relavent
method to connect to database.
I have table 'employee' in my oracle db. server name = 'dbsrv' ,
username='abc' pwd = 'abc',

I use the following function to download files from the net.
Private Declare Function URLDownloadToFile _
                   Lib "urlmon" _
                   Alias "URLDownloadToFileA" ( _

Can anybody tell me how to open and display file using VB 6.0.
Sentiboy.

I now able to send fax using XP through code,
and query the status of outgoing fax jobs.
but i cannot retrive the "extended status" of outgoing fax jobs
as show on the fax console.