VB Forum / General 2 / July 2004

I have an application that sometimes needs to send an email automatically.
It did this by creating an instance of Outlook, then sending an email
followed by Outlook being closed down. This worked fine with all versions
of Outlook till XP. Now I get a dialog box asking if it is OK to ...

How come there haven't been any messages on this group in the last couple of
days, except for just one or two? What's up with you all? Surely you're not
all celebrating American Independance Day?
Mind you, I can understand independance being a big issue. Tony Blair has

I have a program that uses several dlls.  In one dll, I have a
structure called 'newsessiontype'.  This structure has several
elements, one element is defined as
 "TimeFrameArray() as EnumTimeFrame"

Does anyone have any newsgroups that would be good for someone just starting
out with VB.NET. There seems to be loads of stuff (and tutorials) on the net
for earlier versions but not NET.

Umm I'm trying to create an application (actualy game) that displays
pictures in a window.
Now while there is no problem in displaying pictures with white
backgrounds on a form with white background, displaying pictures with a

I'm writing a program in VB6 where data is entered and a report is to be
printed.  No database or file I/O is used.  Crystal Reports requires a
database to generate a report.  Roboprint will print the form just fine, but
the graphic is only at 72dpi and it looks awful.

Im a newbie to programming and I have encountered a small problem with the
following code sample. (I have stripped it off a lot that I think is not
relevant for solving this problem)
I have written a clumsy little program that searches for certain files in

What is the best location to store initialization files that all users
(user of XP in particular) can access besides the application folder?
I am writing to initialization files into the Windows directory now
but some users on some systems are running into security related

I have tried every combintion I can think of to get a VB5 recordset
SQL query using the LIKE keyword to work recognizing the '*' wildcard
character, but with no success. Why doesn't the LIKE keyword work with
VB5 using ADO or DAO?

How do I find a barcode for enter and field exit. Also home?
John

I have a problem displaying images on a form. The situation is a follows:
There is a folder containing cd-covers. I want to display them on a form.
Each time I open the form the folder must be scanned to check which
cd-labels are present.

Hello. I created a class for showing multi-line tooltips. Up to now,
it works fine. The only thing I can't get to work is the text
formatting - I suppose there is be a way to specify a text with
formatting tags in it...

Can someone please tell me how to get the window dimensions of all open
windows using the Lib "USER32" API

Not sure if this is a VB question, but here goes:
I made an ActiveX control in VB6 to use in a web page, but Internet Explorer
says something about it being unsafe. How do I fix this?
With best regards, Lindsay.  E-mail: lindsay@home.com

Does anyone have a VB6 prewritten bitmap to jpeg converter module that I can
add to my project?  I am not looking for a .dll or .ocx file. I want the
source so that I can keep my project as a single executable file without
having to include separate files to run it.