VB Forum / Win API / March 2007

Can I get my external IP address using VB6?  I'm behind a router and all I
seem to be able to retrieve is my LAN address.  I'm after my public IP
address.  I've figured out a way to do it (don't laugh) by having VB send
me an email and then extract my external IP from the headers ...

About a year ago, I had the following dialogue with Mike Sutton. I'm at a
point now where I'd like to explore other options as GDI's polygon API
simply is not fast enough to render some 100,000 to 200,000 2D polygons at a
frame rate that's acceptable.

If this is the wrong group for this discussion, I apologize .  I 've tried to
contact Brad thru the email address given at MVPS.ORG but Brad hasn't
responded so far so I'm posting here in hopes to get relative quick help.
Brad has made an excellent Windows Explorer like VB6 app ...

Am reletively new to VB.NET and was wondering if anyone knows of anywhere
that has free samples/examples of creating trends/graphs using VB.NET 2005?
Apologies if this is the wrong forum...
Thanks,

Hi --
Anyone have any experience with WriteConsoleInput in a console app on Win9x?  I'm
finding that while it seems to be executing flawlessly -- reports correct number of
records written, no error codes -- the results are always clamped to 15 characters.

Dear Sir,
How we can find a computer Network Connection is enable or active in
WindowsXp.
Thanks .

I have to be able to pass an array of strings to a C DLL
from a VB program. I don't need to change the strings.
I'd like to use the simplest mechanism possible, yet
this should work from VB6 and VB.Net. I have to admit I

One of the core functionalities my application will expose is
launching video files and keeping track of "viewing" statistics.  It
needs to be able to:
1. Play/open the user-selected video file with system default player

Dear Sir,
How to Create Shortcut of any program group menu item on desktop using
WinAPI.
Sanjay Shah

Is there some way via the API or otherwise to change the image used by a
CheckBox control? E.g., use an bitmap image like the '[X]' and '[ ]' you
have in some other tools... I would like to have controls that look like
radiobuttons, but allow multiple of them to be selected even ...

Does anyone help me out in capturing contents form a socket ? I have
developed a connectionless chat program using winsock. And I would
like to develop another application, which creates a conversation
history, whenever it receives data from a person. If I create a new

I have studied some mmf examples and only found those kind where a source
copies its data to a special address and a target can read out data from
this special memory address and has to copy it into its local variables for
subsequent processing. Of course, I could live with that, ...

Hello all friends. I am a VB-API beginner. I want to know hoe to find
its constants for a  API Declare. For example：
When we declare a function:
Private Declare Function RegCreateKey Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias

I know that that topic may be old to you but I looked at other topics
related to mine.  However, I didn't find them working for my project
at all because its errors return back to me everytime.
The error I have on that project said:

How can I load some specific fonts, like all Bengali Fonts...
I was able to list Arabic, English, Hebrew, etc fonts but unable to
list Bengali, Hindi Fonts...
Is there any API or other techniques to list those [Bengali, Hindi]