VB Forum / General 2 / December 2006

Is there a way to connect to another system service.msc to start and stop
remotely, using visual basic or .net.
Thanks
Pete

Currently I use the MSComm control to read a Symbol (HotShot) scanner
and everything works fine.  The only issue is that MSComm only reads
the scanner 3-4 minutes after scanning.  I figured it's an internal
timer thing and due to the fact that the operator only needed to use

Using Visual Basic 6, when I go to Project->References I get the following
message:
"Error accessing the system registry"
How do I fix this?

I'm loking for an algoritym or a piece of code to do "fussy" logic text
matching.
This is the challange:
I got a database with artist/song info + some other info relating to

What I am trying to do (as per the advice of a previous topic) is to
get a CRC32 checksum of 1800+ songs.  Of the web I found out a way to
get the checksum and it seems to work fine.  My problem is that it
seems to be slow to do this for all the 1800+ files.  For each of the

Hi to all of you,
I'm new to this NG and I am pleased to meet you all! I "lurked" this NG
for a few days, then I decided to write in. So, thank you for the
future cooperations and, more simply, for keeping this NG alive!

I've got a routine that makes various calculations and then needs to display
itself on my chart as a rectangle. However, I don't want the rectangle
hiding what's behind it. So I was wondering how to go about drawing a
transparent rectangle.

I made a VB2005 app which is *supposed* to open the serial port and receive
data from it (the serial port is controlled by a SerialPort control named
com0new). However, it fails with an exception:
"UnauthorizedAccessException

Back in the 70's, I was introduced to FLOWCHARTING when studying Cobol and
Fortran programming.
With all the changes that have occurred over the years with languages like
Basic (Visual Basic), I was wondering if FLOWCHARTING was still the way

I'm an absolute beginner working on a small and simple program, but
it's giving me headaches already. :-( Some people in this group kindly
helped me out before with my first problem (reading data in an array),
so I was hoping I could get some help here again. Right now I'm trying

I have created a user-control that uses a text box and a UpDown
control. The control works correctly, but the updown control on the
user-control only works in the
first instance of the user control, each additional instance has the

From VB program programmatically insert event procedure into Excel
I have a group of Excel worksheets that contain many Visual Basic
event procedures and modules.  I would
like to be able to update the code in these worksheet procedures and

How do I add support to an application for users to inject a DLL, I
know the DLL and path names but I don't know how to inject multiple
DLLs.

Hi,
I want the tray icon popup menu to disappears when ever the user press left or right key off the menu.
Although I'm using the following code:
 Me.PopupMenu mnuPopup1, vbPopupMenuLeftButton Or vbPopupMenuRightButton

OK, I've tried everything I can think of to make this work.  Even some
suggestions from Google searches that specify that to make it work I
have to pass the user type (SHELLEXECUTEINFO) ByVal instead of
ByRef...which of course will not work.