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why does windows installer start up everytime i start up visual basic 6

it starts up windows installer with random applications on my machine . . after i click cancel a few times, it loads vb6 fine. any ideas why this is happening? ...

Having problem dynamically invoking unmanaged VB COM dll from c#?

I have a problem calling unmanaged VB COM dll from c#. This is dynamic invocation using loadLibrary and GetProcAddress. I can successfully loaded the dll using loadLibrary , but the GetProcAddress always return 0. It wasnt log any error msg and nothing. it just returns 0. below the sample code VB COM VERSION 1.0 CLASS BEGIN Multi...

How to feeding Crystal Report 8.5 parameters from VB6.0 Application?

hi How to feeding Crystal Report 8.5 parameters from VB6.0 Application? ...

VB6 and Crystal Reports 7, setting "Record Style" export options programatically

I'm making a change to some legacy software to dump the contents of a CR7 report in the "Record Style" format, which basically dumps each visible data field into a fixed-length text file. This is all well and good, with one exception. All of my numbers are being rounded to the nearest whole number when I need some of the numbers to sho...

How to Use OpenOffice.org Spell Checker in My App (VB6)

It is possible to use Microsoft Word to spell chek an arbitrary document. What I want is to use OpenOffice.org to do the same. Is it possible? How? ...

Using stored procedure in crystal report 8.5?

I have made a new report using Crystal Reports 8.5 (report1) which uses a stored procedure as its data source. The stored procedure has 2 input parameters (@p1 and @p2) and when I enter some test data for @p1 and @p2 within crystal report IDE , every thing is all right. Then, I added the report1 in visual basic 6.0 IDE and added a new fo...

How do I send a struct from C# to VB6, and from VB6 to C#?

I need to send a struct from C# to a VB6 app, modify the data in VB6, and send the result back via windows messaging. How do I do this? I am able to send basic ints back and forth with PostMessage (using DllImport in C# and registering the vb6 app with windows messaging), but need to send more structured data, consisting of strings, in...

How to remove cookie with underscore in name in VB6?

I have VB6 web application and I have to remove cookie. Unfortunately cookie has underscore character in name -- exemplary cookie name looks like that: XXXXXXAAASS_session_key. When I try to remove it by assign empty value to it: Response.cookies.Item("XXXXXXAAASS_session_key") = "" I've got a new cookie with name `XXXXXXAAASS%5Fsess...

open the txt file and read it and save it in database using vb6

Hi, I have a question for you. I have a dne text file.( file will be in the test server) I need to read that file and store it in a database. In this I have to read line if that line starts with “6”. Other wise leave it. For example in that dne file if the line starts with 6 then read that line and if second line starts with 7 then don’...

how to open file in server using vb6

i have file in my testserver. In my code i have to read that txt file which is located in test server. how to create path to that file which is in server using my code in vb6. ...

Getting COM Exception 80040154 on different machine

Hi All, I am getting following problem, can someone help please? I used Tlbimp utility and converted VB6 COM DLL into RCW DLL. From my Visual Studio 2008, I used "Add Reference" and used that DLL in c# class. Everything works fine on my machine. But if someone else use the same project on his/her machine then on that machine they get fo...

how to read txt file.?

I am reading textfile using vb6 code. My requirements are if the line starts with 6 then i need to read that line otherwise i have to leave that line and goto next line. can anyone help me how to do that? if ( start pos == 6) { //do } else { //do noting } i need this help in vb6. Thanks in advance. ...

how do you parse a string in vb6?

Some of us unfortunately are still supporting legacy app like vb6 I have forgotten how to parse a string given a string dim mystring as string ="1234567890" how do you loop in vb6 through each character and so something like for each character in mystring debug.print character next in c# i would do char[] myChars = my...

Code signing didn't complain when I changed an exe file?

I purchased a code signing certificate and all looks well. When tested inside a clean Virtual PC OS I no longer get the "The Publisher could not be verified" message. So just for grins, using a hex editor, I change a few constants in the VB6 exe which I see on a form. And the VB 6 exe still runs wihout any error message. I thought th...

VB6: enabling mousewheel for controls

hi all, can someone tell me if there's an easy way to enable mousewheel for controls (in runtime)? i want to use the wheel for scrolling controls as soon as the mouse is over them. thx ...

what is requery in vb6?

what is requery in vb6? how to use that one? can anyone help ? ...

C# Best approach for a responsive UI during SQL query using COM interop

I am making a C# DLL plugin for a EXE written in VB6. I do not have access to the source of the EXE. The DLL itself works and communicates fine with the EXE. Here is the process for a event: User issues command on EXE which then calls a function in the DLL, passing an object as a parameter DLL processes data which sometimes takes a lo...

"Expected:=" compile error in vb6 while adding recordset to SQL Server 2005 database

Here I created recordset in vb6 and store values in that vb6. i want to write that recordset values to database table. while executing that code i am getting compile error like "Expected:=". please see the code below. Please let me know where I am doing wrong. I am getting error in cmdCommand.Execute() With rcdDNE.Fields .Appen...

assign recordset to sql database using vb6

HI, I have created recordset in vb6 and stored values that i read from txt file. when iam trying to execute the sql query which will insert my recordset data into dataase table . I am getting error like ''' either EOF or BOF is true, or the current recoed has been deleted. requested operation requires current record. """ I am just atta...

the connection cannt be used to perform this operation. It may closed or not valid in this context error in vb6

I am trying to execute the query which stores recordset vales in sql db. when I am trying to execute that i am getting error like the connection cannt be used to perform this operation. It may closed or not valid in this context error in vb6. Please help me to solve this issue. ' Write records to Database frmDNELoad.lblStatus.Ca...