VB Forum / General 2 / December 2003

I developed an Access database using Access97 on windows
2000. I inserted the common dialog control (comdlg32.ocx)
version 6.0. It works on my machine. The moment other
users try to use it on their machine it throws up an error

I haven't really used Visual Basic before, but I'd heard that it's what
you'd use to automate running of older GUI applications by somehow sending
them the right mouse clicks and keyboard entries and checking the response.
Can Visual Basic do this??? And if it can, are there any ...

As the Image control supports transparency in images (such as GIF), can the
transparency be tranfered to another Image control. For example:
I have 2 Image controls: Image1 and Image2. I load a GIF file into Image1
(which has transparency), rotate it 90 degrees using some code ...

I have a large variable array that was started with
dim myArr() as variant
Later in the program I ReDim myArr(50,1000)
Then later in the program I ReDim Preserve myArr(50,2000)

What is wrong with my MSDN help? I use it from VB6. See also, methods,
example etc. links are missing. If there is some link, it doesn't work, just
gives me an error message. I have reinstalled MSDN and VB6 service pack, but
it didn't work.

I would like that the function "command" return long name because i want to
get a file name.
But it returns names as "c:\My~1\file~1.doc" and i can't get the LONG name
Can you help me

'This is the code i have so far:
Private Declare Function RegCloseKey Lib "advapi32.dll" (ByVal hKey As _
Long) As Long
Private Declare Function RegOpenKey Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias _

A co-worker just showed me a 9 page PDF on converting VB code to VB.NET
code.  The PDF went over some of the important differences between VB and
VB.NET.  My first impression is VB.NET is "NOT" a step toward easier GUI
programming (which was the whole reason for VB in the first ...

I have problem to find the Word Handle of Word with Windows XP.
I use this code:
   Dim success%
   Dim wH%

Dear Michael
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you and many, many thanks for what
you've created for me.
Having run this routine this gives me the randomness that I was looking for.

I'm using the Internet Transfer Control to retrieve specific files via
HTTP. I would like to monitor the progress of the transfer for larger
files.
How can I determine the remote file size in advance?

Bonjour,
    Je n'arrive pas à savoir comment lire via vb4 l'adresse d'un favoris
dans le dossier des favoris où Internet Explorer place ses favoris.
Par exemple, comment fait-on pour afficher l'url d'un favoris dans un

I hope I've got the right group here and apologies if I haven't.  I'm a
hobby programmer and have just upgraded to Visual Basic.net and have a
couple of questions if anybody can help.
In VB 6 you could print using a print command that included Print, Line,

Does clicking on the END button (the end execution button in the toolbar of
VB in design mode) cause an event that I can put some important code in?
I've tried the Form_unload and Form_terminate and Form_queryunload but I
can't trap the END.

I had this this problem sometime ago, fixed it, but, honestly, don't
remember how.
I've created a component in VB and registered it in Component Services. It
works for just 5 or 6 calls. After the 7th call this '800a01ad' error starts