I have a long running process in VB6 that I want to finish before executing the next line of code. How can I do that? Built-in function? Can I control how long to wait? Trivial example: Call ExternalLongRunningProcess Call DoOtherStuff How do I delay 'DoOtherStuff'? ...
After installing VS2005 VB6 lost F1 function to MSDN Oct/2001 lib. Suggetions to re-install MSDN did not work. The only thing F1 works on now are ADO statements in VB6. Example ado1.recordset.recordcount If I highlight recordcount and press F1 I do get the ADO help information. If I highlight "recordset", I get "Help not found" dialog. ...
I'm trying to create the IDL for the IConverterSession interface and I'm confused by the definition of the MIMETOMAPI method. It specifies the LPMESSAGE pmsg parameter as [out] yet the comments state its the pointer to the MAPI message to be loaded. Its unclear to me whether the functions allocates the MAPI message object and sets the p...
I recently inherited an old visual basic 6/ crystal reports project which connects to a sql server database. The error message I get (Error# -2147191803 A String is required here) when I attempt to run the project seems to be narrowed down to the .Printout command in the following code: 'Login to database Set Tables ...
In visual basic 6, when I attempt to access Project > References, it throws an error "Error accessing system registry" I'm logged in as the local computer administrator running windows XP professional and I can execute regedt32.exe and access all the registry keys just fine. VB6 was installed as the local administrator. any ideas w...
I'd like to be able to hook into a 3rd party application to see what SQL Statements are being executed. Specifically, it is a VB6 application running on SQL Server 2005. For example, when the application fills out a grid, I'd like to be able to see exactly what query produced that data. ...
I am currently using an MSAccess mdb file for a redistributable app. A while ago I found out about SQLite, as an alternative to my solution, but the binaries they provide do not offer the possiblilty of using them as an object in VB6. (Or at least I couldn't figure it out how). Does anyone has a link, or could write a little about con...
Hello all, I’ve got a problem with Visual Basic (6) in combination with LDAP. When I try to connect to an LDAP store, I always get errors like ‘Bad Pathname’ or ‘Table does not exist’ (depending on what the code looks like). This is the part of the code I wrote to connect: path = "LDAP://xx.xxx.xxx.xxx:xxx/" Logging.WriteToLogFile "Te...
I have VB6 application , I want to put some good error handling finction in it which can tell me what was the error and exact place when it happened , can anyone suggest the good way to do this ...
I have a legacy VB6 executable that runs on Vista. This executable shells out another legacy MFC C++ executable. In our early Vista testing, this call would display the typical UAC message to get the user's permission before running the second executable. This wasn't perfect, but acceptable. However, it now looks like this call is bei...
I need to consume an external web service from my VB6 program. I want to be able to deploy my program without the SOAP toolkit, if possible, but that's not a requirement. I do not have the web service source and I didn't create it. It is a vendor-provided service. So outside of the SOAP toolkit, what is the best way to consume a web ser...
A VB6 application is using the Interop Forms Toolkit to work with forms written in .NET. The documentation for the toolkit advises calling a method on the toolkit to advise the toolkit when the VB6 application is shutting down. The VB6 application uses a Sub Main procedure that loads a splash screen, then displays several modeless forms...
Hi all, the company I work for want to use a "hosted payment form" to charge our customers. A question came up on how we can populate the "payment form" automatically with information from one of our other system. We have no control over the hosed payment form, and we have to use IE. Is this possible at all? And if so, how can this be d...
I'm working on a VB6 application and I would like to send a Type as a reference and store it in another form. Is this possible? Sending it is no problem, I just use the ByRef keyword: public Sub SetStopToEdit(ByRef currentStop As StopType) But when I try to use Set to store currentStop in the recieving module I get the "Object requir...
Is anyone aware of a reasonably well documented example of simulated annealing in Visual Basic that I can examine and adapt? ...
When an error occurs in a function, I'd like to know the sequence of events that lead up to it, especially when that function is called from a dozen different places. Is there any way to retrieve the call stack in VB6, or do I have to do it the hard way (e.g., log entries in every function and error handler, etc.)? ...
I have to continue to support VB6 applications. I've got both VB6 (Visual Studio 6) installed and Visual Studio 2008 as well. Can I read and write to VB6 projects while in Visual Studio 2008? Will it damage or destroy my VB6 application? It would be very cool if I could free up a lot of space and get rid of Visual Studio 6. ...
This I think is related to my use of the nlog C++ API (and my question on the nlog forum is here); the purpose of my asking this question here is to get a wider audience to my problem and perhaps to also get some more general ideas behind the VB6 IDE's failure to build in my particular scenario. Briefly, the problem that I am having is ...
Below is a rather simple function which counts how many files are on a machine. Called on "C:\", it takes about 5 seconds to run. Unless I haven't run it in a while or first run a ram-clearing program, in which case it takes 60 seconds or more. I wouldn't have thought it could be caching since I'm doing a new scan each time (i.e. star...
Platform: Windows XP Development Platform: VB6 When trying to set an application title via the Project Properties dialog on the Make tab, it seems to silently cut off the title at a set number of characters. Also tried this via the App.Title property and it seems to suffer from the same problem. I wouldn't care about this but the QA D...