VB Forum / Win API / February 2008

I want to store a date and two integers in the Registry. Where is a safe
place to store these values where the location would be on any computer? I
would also like to encrypt the values; how can I do that? Then, how do I
compare the current date against the encrypted stored date? ...

In my vb.net application I use fortran dll for some calculations and I
was wondering how to stop running dll in the middle of the
calculations by pressing Esc key
Any help is welcome

How to Verify a file on a USB Thumb Drive?
I'd to write some files to a USB thumb drive and verify
that they were written correctly.
Reading the file back is useless, because you get what's in

I have an application developed with Visual Basic 6.0 that use the following
API:
Public Declare Function PAGESETUPDLG Lib "comdlg32.dll" Alias
"PageSetupDlgA" (pPagesetupdlg As PAGESETUPDLG) As Long

I'm using the function InternetOpen, InternetConnect and FtpPutFile to put a
file onto a FTP-Server.
Generally it's working very well, every minute a file ist generated.
But about every 14 days i get the error, when using InternetOpen: 20001, No

Which type of file, OCX or Dll, is more secure in terms of cracking the file
and changing the functions and/or procedures the file contains?
Thanks!

I need BI_RLE4 bit BMP image for testing. How can we create 4 bits
RLE BMP image. Which tool can be used to create 4 bits RLE BMP image.
If you know please tell me or give me reference .
Regards:-

Two questions ............
1.  Can VBA be used to create the procedures in a dll file?
2.  Can anyone give me recommendations for free downlaodable tools for
compiling a dll file?

I'm using the function InternetOpen, InternetConnect and FtpPutFile to put a
file onto a FTP-Server.
Generally it's working very well, every minute a file ist generated.
But about every 14 days i get the error, when using InternetOpen: 20001, No

I am trying to override the default indent behavior for RTB when Ctrl+I is
pressed. I am using the following routine to subclass the RTB. While it works
to override Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, it does not work for Ctrl+I. Any help would be
appreciated.

Is there a way using API that I can increase the height of each item in a
combo drop down. I wish to space out the individual items more than the
default. I've found samples to incread the height of the drop box itself but
not the items. Any ideas?

On another VB website They had a list of Dlls for download. Each Dll had a
description and some instructions on how to use. Reading some of the
descriptions and instructions I noted that some required to be registered on
the Registry and some did not. Can someone explain why some ...

I can get the hwnd for the IE window.  I am assuming that a particular page
is displayed in that IE window and I want to call a javascript routine that
is defined on that page.  How would I do this?
This is not my architecture.