Hi all, Not a VB6 expert... Trying to come up with a VB6 test app that calls InternetCheckConnection. In my test app, InternetCheckConnection always returns false regardless of the URL I use. I copied and pasted this code from a larger spaghetti-code app, but in the spaghetti-code, InternetCheckConnection seems to work fine, returns t...
I have searched for a list of VB6 files that are redistributable, but did not find one. Can anyone point me to such a list? I specifically need to verify that tabctl32.ocx is redistributable. Thanks! ...
HEllo, i have a small problem: i have a Crystal 8,5 Report in a VB 6 application. About 2 days ago, all worked like a charm. Since this morning, whenever i press View REport, it shows on screen but the PRINT BUTTON is disabled, meaning has visible=false. I cant see it so i can print the report. I searched the net like a maniac and st...
I need to read data from text files and use the same in my application. Im using VB 6.0. What commands do I use? Some Sample code would be highly appreciated. ...
I'm trying to run a regular expression in VBA code that uses Microsoft VBScript Regular Expressions 5.5 (should be the same as JavaScript regex) regex: ^[0-9A-Z]?[0-9A-Z]{3}[A-Z]?([0-9A-Z]{6})-?([0-9])?$ input: X123A1234567 match: 123456 The six characters I'm interested in give a good match of 123456, ignoring the last (check) digit. ...
I have an ActiveX control (created using C#) that I am adding to a form in Visual FoxPro using late binding. It works without problems when I register the control. I want to use reg free COM and created necessary manifest files. Now it load and displays in an inactive state until I double click or programatically activate it. I don't t...
How do you obtain the DateTime stamp of a textfile using VB 6.0? By DateTime stamp I mean the date & time the textfile was created or modified. Sample code would be appreciated. Thanks. ...
Hey all i am working at my project where it collects information from two database, one is supplied by the program lets name it DB Y and the other supplied by the user lets name it DB X , now i have an query that depends on companies which is on DB x so i want to transfer this table from DB x to DB y at run time and also checks if the...
I have created a module in access 2007 that will update linked tables, but I wanted to run this module from vb6. I have tried this code from Microsoft, but it didnt work. Sub AccessTest1() Dim A As Object Set A = CreateObject("Access.Application") A.Visible = False A.OpenCurrentDatabase (App.Path & "/Data...
I'm learning how to create an VB6 Active X EXE. (I need to add the ability for a number of VB6 apps to "phone home" to a server and I'd like centralize this but don't want to do it with a DLL because I'd like to only need Firewall permission for one program (the "phone home ActiveX EXE). I've found a few tutorials but I'm looking for a...
We've been recording sound for over a decade using what seems like a very clunky method using the Winmm.dll and the MCIsendString. I've read that this doesn't set the recording quality value correctly (not sure if that article was ever true or is still true). I was wondering if there is any better way to record sound, such as using th...
I am in process of converting Visual Basic app into Python Django. Currently, it has barcode functionality to process sales at a store. Can this be achieved with python django. ...
I have a Visual Basic 6 application that I've recently changed to use a couple of C++ DLLs I've written in Visual Studio 2008. The application works fine on my PC, but when we install it on one of our test PCs it tends to crash during shutdown - we see the Win 7 message "Your application has failed" or whatever it is. I know Win 7 store...
Is it possible for vb to extract files from tar(and put them back)? I found this but it says that Dim tar As New ChilkatTar <<<< ChilkatTar does not exist I am trying to edit one xml file(which is not compressed) but if i do that with notepad, the tar becomes corrupt ...
I need to encrypt a number and I and this encrypted value will be given to a customer ask a key so I want to minimize the number of digits and make them all printable. So I'd like the result to be either all number or all Hex characters. The current encryption method I'm using (for non numbers) converts the characters to hex (2 hex d...
I need to resize images and resample them so they don't end up all jagged (I think that's called aliasing). I found some code (sorry, lost the link) that does this in pure VB6 code but it's a bit slow (2-5 seconds) and I'm displaying pictures in real time so I need something faster. I seem to recall seeing some examples of doing this w...
I have a .NET v2.0 Dll that exposes a few classes to COM. The assembly is called BLogic.DLL I'm calling these classes from a legacy visual basic 6.0 application. I can generate and EXE file and if I have Blogic.dll in the same folder as the EXE, the program runs without a hitch. However If I try and launch the same program within the V...
Here's one for a firewall expert: If I have an ActiveX EXE (created in VB6) and use that for several other VB6 apps to access the internet, will I need to only get permission from the Firewall (if it blocks the access) for just the ActiveX EXE, or for each app? ...
I want to know how can we open a file dialog from withing a class module in vb6. I know how to do in forms, but I have to open it from within a class module. ...
Hi guys, I have been programming in vb6 for few time ago and i used open SQL Server connection and command objects to make database traansactions. I have been searching for similar approaches in vb.net too but not finding any starting point. How can we work similarly in vb.net application? ...