VB Forum / General 2 / November 2003

Hoi,
When I generate the files with PDW in an ME envirenment everything works
fine. When I do the same in XP the setup will not work it always give the
error some "files are out of date, update" after the reboot from the

What is the future of Visual Basic? Will Microsoft be giving it any sort of
support in the future? Should I really be migrating to VB .net?
rwc

I really need some help with a Visual Basic problem. I am using Visual
Basic .NET and want find some text with a certain style in an MS
Office document. I have written something like:
Dim oFind As Object

Could anyone tell me the differences of OCX and DLL?
Thanks!

I have a program that I added a Comon Dialog component to, to open a file
window. It works just as it should in XP, but fails in 98 because the .ocx
isn't found. Isn't there something similar in 98, or do I need to copy
over and register the .ocx? Is it even compatible with 98?

I'm using the code below in my project.  When I print all of these fixed
length string variables, one per line, they strings in questions do not
properly pad with 0s.  strQuantity prints as "      4".  Six spaces than the
value of intQuantity.  This is correct.

Does Microsoft have a Bug Reporting form or method, so that the generaly
public can report specific bug?
I seem to have found a problem with the Caption property of Visual Basic
6.0's Labels.

We have an application that is accessed using shared drives, client
executes program from server. We have already coded the program to
create and save the file either locally on the users machine or on the
server. Our problem is that when we execute the bat file from the

I was looking for code to creating an abstract class which can be
implemented by other children classes.
Your help is appreciated. If anybody has any experience in this
matter, please let me know with some example code snippets that you

does anybody know how to make the program as a  single user
installation, meaning that the program only can install on one pc but
can't on others pc??

In a VB program, I'm trying to bring a window, running another program to
the top of the desktop, in maximized form. I'm using api calls, and tried
BringWindoeToTop, which promises to do that, but doesn't. I tried
ShowWindow, which also promises to, but also doesn't.

I'm running VB6 with SP5 on a windows XP machine.  I have never had any
problems until recently.  VB shuts down, pops up a window asking if a report
should be sent.  Error properties states the following:
Faulting application vb6.exe, version 6.0.89.88, faulting module unknown,

Might be dumb to ask but is vb 6 with sp 5 compatable with windows xp ?
Heck with all the wahoo and vb .net Im unsure about compatability. Any help
would be appreciated.

Dear Colleagues,
My task: I read AVI file and get handle to its frames using the Ray
Mercer's outstanding tutorial regarding video in VB. Now, I try to
write text on each such frame and then save them to an AVI file.

I have written a small exe to retrieve the free space available on all
of my servers hard drives and fire email warnings on predefined rules.
This bit works fine, however I am currently planning to install it as
a service and want it to run a procedure every 10 minutes, but the vb