VB Forum / Win API / June 2006

The getusername api returns the username not the full username.
Unfortunately you logon with the full user name (you can make these
different by modifying an existing name with control panel, user accounts).
Is there a simple way to obtain the full user name of the logged on user?

Hello Mike,
You once helped me with a code to show icons on a form and connect them
to other icons in a circle with ropes and boxes. I have lost the code
and have only some parts of it recovered.

Based on
 - GetOpenFileName: Customize File Open/Save Common Dialog Controls
     http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/hooks/fileopensavedlghookadvtext.htm
 - GetOpenFileName: Set an Open/Save Dialog's Initial Listview View

An external application is sending a custom message with a structure
containing information in the lParam argument.
While I have subclassed my app to intercept the message successfully. I am
unable to read the structure information. Any suggestions:

I have written a service using VB which performs perfectly.
I need to communicate information back to another application running in the
system tray.
Usually I would use findwindow and sendmessage to commincate strings between

I have tried the CurDir function, but sometimes it returns a directory of
another drive - e.g. if I'm running my application in C:\myapp and I have
another drive P, then the current directory for the P drive is sometimes
returned from CurDir. How can I get the current directory ...

I Have a folder with many File.MDI(imagin).
I need to print all of them, so i think to use this method:
Private Sub cmdPrint_Click()
   Dim MyPath As String

How do I pass a Cstring to a c++ dll from vb6
String >>> Bstr
VB??? >>>> Cstring
Example if available

Hi all, another tricky question...
At our site we have seven Server 2003 boxes, of which two host Active
Directory (the other five are member servers).
Is it possible to, programmatically, list only the DCs by VB? Reason I ask

I try to get informations of a localgroup using the NETAPI32 but it doesn't
work. Is there anybody who knows what is the mistake in my code ?
Or is ther another way to get informations about groups and there members ?
code:

I could not found support for EUC de/encoding (51932 codepage) in
WindowXP Japanese? Does it support for this?
Actually I have tried 20932 instead of 51932, it seems fine but I am
not sure is it correctly?

If I draw a line on a form like this:
obj.Line (A.x, A.y)-(B.x, B.y), vbBlack
What math do I need to determine the center point of that line?
Regards

I have been using the GDI+ wrapper for VB6 quite successfully, but have now
run into a seemingly silly problem. Maybe one of you can help?
I can't get the GetThumbnailImage function to work, I keep getting a "Bad
DLL calling convention" error on the line that says gdADSBBRetThumb ...

I have decided I am missing something basic in subclassing.  I want to
read messages from one application, say Notepad.exe, and react to them
in another application, particularly when the watched window moves.  I
followed this example: http://www.vb-helper.com/howto_subclass.html

I want to create a pure VB app which can dynamicaly load and unload portions
of code as needed.
As far as I know unloading a form will not completely free up memory from
the form's code, so if I would have a lot of forms I would have loaded the