VB Forum / Win API / November 2007

I have a filename with a ? in the middle of the name. I know it's an invalid
name and I want to rename the file, but I can't rename it because it's an
invalid filename (error 123 The filename, directory name, or volume label
syntax is incorrect.). The file itself is valid, I can ...

I have some code which compresses a whole folder structure, and it works OK,
but I have admin privileges.  For someone who doesn't, my code fails --
however they can successfully right-click a folder, choose Properties, and
use the Advanced button to compress its whole structure ...

first I hope this is an okay question for this ng?
Im trying to call an exe using vb6 which I can do already, that part works.  
but when the exe finishes I want to get the return values and use them in the
code to tell the user the action passed/failed or whatever.

I want to convert DB-BLOB-Data the represent the binary data of
a picture file into StdPicture-Objects.
or somehow 'put' it into a picturebox.
I extract the data using GetChunk so I have a Byte-Array

I have an array with (in the order of) a hundred points.
Now, I want to draw a curve passing through all the points.
At present, I just "walk" through the array drawing lines between the
points, but the appearance is not so pleasing to the eye.

I've got a Windows Forms project done in VB that creates graphs based
on data that is given to the program.  I can save those graphs as
bitmaps but now I want to be able to save multiple graphs in one
bitmap.  Is there a way to paste a smaller bitmap into a larger bitmap

Do I have to call DestroyIcon after every ExtractIconEx call when using
it in a loop, or is it OK to just call it after my loop is finished?
' sample #1 - after loop
For i = 0 To List1.ListCount - 1

I'm not sure if I'm in the right place for this question, so I'm going to
ask for your forgiveness in advance.
I'm trying to teach myself Visual Basic 2005 .NET and the best way I have
found is to create a project in Visual Basic 2005 .NET.

I want to know if there is a way to decrypt files that have been given
a encryption in windows, using a winapi in VB.
If you have a file in windows and right click properties you can set
under advanced the protection (encryption). That way only a pc with

Using this Api always returns "error 87 Invalid parameters" ... And i don't
understand. I'm using VB2005EE and i'm very "newbee" :o)
Can anyone help me ? Thanks a lot !
Oliver

I can't get GetForegroundWindow to work from c# on XP, it always
returns null.
On Vista it works just fine! any ideas as to why?

I'm using URLDownloadToFile and it's working fine, but some of the
users don't have IE installed and don't want to install it.
Is there an alternative to URLDownloadToFile that doesn't require MS
Internet Explorer to be installed?

what´s the fastest way to resolve if a client is in domain or workgroup?
Maybe netapi? Registry value?
Thanks

I need to be able to get the cursor position when I click on a drawing in a
picture box in VB6.  I have tried the Get Cursor Position system call, but it
responds only when I click on the form outside the picture box.  There is no
response when I click on the picture box.  Thank ...

I am using GetAsyncKeyState to read keyboard. Shift is easy to detect.
For example, key [1] has three characters:
[1]: "1"
[Shift][1]: "!"