VB Forum / Win API / September 2006

I'm trying to create a Windows Shortcut file using VB.Net. Does anyone have
code that shows how to create such a file?
THanx in advance.

How do you get a windows title if you only have its Process ID?
Thanks for any info you can provide,
Ed

I am trying to simulate clicking on the "Save" Button that appears on the
"File Download" dialog box. this Dialog contains 4 buttons :
"Open","Save","Cancel","More Info".
When i run my code i failed to click

Does someone know a (preferably simple) way to enumerate ALL serial ports
and get the type (standard, builtin modem, USB, bluetooth,....)?
Thanks for your help!
Boris

Was wondering if anyone has for sale or download the October 2001 MSDN Disk.
Thank You.

If we write any DOC file using MS Word i think we need
ReadFile
CreateFile
WriteFile

I have several forms that were built as common forms to be used throughout a
very large VB 6.0 project.  
They were previously using a Sheridan Splitter control to include the Common
forms in various other forms.

I wrote an app that has to change the master volume level.
Until Windows XP everything works well, but in Vista now every
application has its own volume level and changes only that one when
using the standard API calls in winmm.dll (e.g mixerOpen,

Hello newsgroup,
can anybody please tell me how to draw a line on the desktop that
inverts all underlying pixels?
In VB2005 this is very easy, because "DrawReversibleLine" exists, but I

I use a DTPicker on a database form.
When the user doesn't want to edit a record the DTPicker is disabled.
The problem is then that the forecolor of the DTPicker gets gray
instead of black.

Hello, I have been struggling for days now to write a VB.Net
application which converts BMP Images to AVI. This program works just
fine in VB but will not run in VB.Net. The problem lies with the
conversion of VarPtr() in VB to some other means in VB.Net.

I try to allow the user can only apply the workflow rule in their
bussiness unit. Assume that i have two bussiness unit under root (unitA
and unitB).
    -- First i using the user admin to create the workflow rule#1and

In VB6, I am using the ShellExec API to create an outgoing E-Mail message.  I
am passing in the body of the text with the "vbCrLf" separator in-between
each line of text that I want to show in the E-Mail.  However, when the
Outlook message pops up, the body text has everything ...

Hello to everyone.
I am build a Self-test application using Office Automation. I am currently
facing the following problem:
I want to create a small window that sits on the bottom of the screen,

I use the regop class in a function to determine if an app is installed,
and I use it 3 times in separate functions, calling the functions in the form load event,
because I was getting "Runtime error 91:Object variable or With block variable not set".
errors