VB Forum / Win API / October 2006

I noticed some weird behavior when calling the SetTimer API from VB6
and I was hoping someone could shed some light on this.
SetTimer runs a callback function after N seconds elapsed. According to
MSDN, the signature for this callback function is

can u please give me a working example in C# or VB.NET on how to enumerate through all threads of a running application (given by Exe Name or PID out of taskmanager) and then delete all its attached threads.
The function in Kernel32.dll i found out is
Declare Function ...

I am looking for an API which will let me read the CURRENT setting of
measurement units (Control Panel, Regional settings, regional options,
customize, numbers, measurement units.
Any ideas?

In my current project I have a class that uses the registry API to handle
settings for the program.  It was working fine as long as all the values were
dwords, but then I added a couple of reg_sz values.  Now when I read the
settings back into the program, RegEnumValue will ...

Is there an API to retrieve the status of a mirroring array?
Regards,
Gianluca

Hi all.  IsNetDrive works great for showing if a mapped network drive letter
is "connected" or not and is instant.  According to Microsoft, this function
may not be available in future versions of Windows.  They recommend using
GetDriveType or WNetGetConnection, but those don't show ...

I am trying to find a font that I can scale in both Height and Width. I need
to use this font in a VB6.0 controls(primarily a Label control) Is anyone
aware of an API function that will allow me to adjust both the Height and
Width of a given font? are there existing fonts with ...

Using ShellExecute to play a .wmv file loads the Windows Media Player but
does not play the file.
Does anyone have code to make a success of this operation on any
machine?????

I want to send text to some windows - for example, the `dos box` you
get when you type run cmd.exe - but it just changes the title bar text.
I can do it in Wordpad.  I've poked around with Spy+ but can't find
anything.  Am I asking the impossible? There must be some way of

I'm looking for a way - any way - to turn off power to a USB port on my
machine with a device attached.  Does anyone know what API I should be
looking into to make this happen?
Specifically, I'm trying to send a reboot command to an attached device and

I have code (two versions, written in both VB6 and also Visual Studio 2005)
that calls the EnumerateNtmsObject API.
It works fine under 32 bit machines, and I correctly enumerate Ntms GUIDs.
However under 64 bit machines, the same code will incorrectly enumerate Ntms

I'm wondering how to declare functions in the libmcrypt.dll in vb to
use the rijndael encryption.
The dll can be found in http://ftp.emini.dk/pub/php/win32/mcrypt/
There is also a c .header file in the url above, but I don't know which

How can I play 1 wav-file over 2 soundcards but they have to start at a
different time.
mvg,
Bart

This is functioning:
Const SW_MINIMIZE As Long = 6
ShowWindowAsync TaskHwnd, SW_MINIMIZE
but this not:

We use SHFileOperation to copy a file from C:\Windows\Temp to a network
location. On most computers this works perfectly well; however, on
several computers running Win2k the copy operation succeeds and the
function returns 0, but err.LastDllError returns 6 - "the handle is