VB Forum / Win API / May 2006

I am looking for API to enable/disable devices such USB ports as well as
query their status
Thank you,
Samuel Shulman

How can VB/api enable/disable LAN and/or Restart windows in System Account?
VB with some API calls to set privileges allows for the rebooting while in a
user or admin account, but doesnt allow for it while in system account.
all help and ideas appreciated

Hi *.*,
the MSDN requires to remove any prop which was set using "SetProp" by use of
"RemoveProp" before the window is closed. But what happens, if we don't do
so? Will this lead to a memory leak or anythig?

I have a [VB6] program that uses GetUserName to, not surprisingly, get
the username under which it is running.
On our Windows 2000 Server, this returns the username in mixed case, as
I would expect.

I am about to create a dll file from a development machine and have it
registered in another that runs IIS.
I need this as the Windows API cannot be called directly from ASP.
Questions: Does os difference matters? My development machine is XP with VB

Hi everybody, how are u? I hope fine...
Anyone knows how I know if my application lost the focus? because I need to
know if the user has alternated/switched my application and if yes I will
close it.

  Here is my problem. I am using a class from vbip.com as a
replacement for the WinSock control. I have 1 computer (Server if you
will) that will contact 800+ computers (clients) and send them some
information to display on a form (like an alert system 1 way

Is there a way to get the treeview control to recognize that a node is
selected when using checkboxes? As of now it will only return a selected
node if the node is actually highlighted.
What I'm trying to do is build a browse for folder control where the

Can anybody tell me  when does form_paint get really triggered, what
I'm understanding is that it happens when for example I minimize the
page or in general the picture need to be redrawn and it would actually
re-do the piece of code that's within it, but that's not really what

Can anyone help me?
I would like to have a form where I can send over the name of a exe-file
that I wan't to play in the form.  It should be possible to set the flash
movie (thats the exe file) to pause and start it again and of course stop it.

I want to buy a book for learning DirectX and advices would be appreciated
since there are so much on the market !
I work on 3D professionnal applications, for advanced simulations in 3D. I
would need chapters on Basics DirectX programming since I am new in DirectX,

Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question - I'm pretty new to
graphics in VB6.
I have an app that's heavily reliant on maps, and currently it uses
LoadPicture, BitBlt, SelectObject and *DC functions - all that stuff -

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I would like to send e-mails from a VB6 project,
that allows me to make a difference for the adressees in the TO, CC and BCC,
and also to add an attachment.
We have an SMTP server.

I wanr to retrieve files from removal ftp server, i use ftpfindnexrt API but
i want to retrieve files from subdirectories.
In final i want to get all files from directories and subdirectories.
thinks for your help.