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First, don't use TaskManager to look at your memory consumption. You're seeing the memory that your the CLR RESERVES for the entire virtual machine your app is running in, not necessarily used by your application.
Use the Performance Monitor and the .NET counters to see your actual memory consumption. You can also use a memory profiler, like CLRProfiler, to see exactly how your app is allocating memory.
Also, if you do discover that your app isn't releasing memory, make sure you Dispose any graphics objects you're using, specially any and all GDI objects. This also includes images, like Image and Bitmap objects!
RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
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Hi, can anyone give me an idea or concept about send and recieve mail in outlook express using vb6?
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Outlook Express doesn't expose any kind of an object model for you to use. It is, for all intensive purposes, a wrapper for Win32's MAPI interface.
Soooo, Google for vb6 mapi[^] and you'll find what you're looking for.
RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
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Thank you dave, I also look through an article from http://abstractvb.com/code.asp?A=713[^]. But when i do it in vb6, it say that object require. This error because the default name is MAPIMessages1 but in the code is MAPISession1. But when i change the name to MAPIMessage1, there is no Sign on method that I could you in my code. Do you have any solution? An error still keep the same.
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The code is pretty straight forward. So long as you have a reference to the MSMAPI32.OCX, the code will work as documented.
All you did was change the variable name. This doesn't change the control your using, just what you call that instance.
The code works as documented, so about the only thing I can think of is you didn't set a reference to the OCX file.
RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
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How can i create a long string with a hyperlink(different colored text) in the middle of the string and draw it to the form? I am trying to make it so that when I write the string I can set the link with a key word.. eg... String = "This is my string, so <mylink>click here<mylink>".
can anybody help?
Mark Thibodeaux
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Try using a LinkLabel control. You can setup this control to show both normal text and a link. It can even display multiple links within its text. But you can't add the link from the designer. It must be done in code.
myLink.Text = "This is my string, so click here"<br />
Const linkString As String = "here"<br />
myLink.Links.Add(myLink.Text.IndexOf(linkString), linkString.Length)
-- modified at 20:54 Monday 16th January, 2006
Let me rephrase this a little. The text you enter into a LinkLabel in the form designer will become one big link, which is not what you want. If you want to embed a link within normal text, then you must do this via code as shown above.
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Thanks that works. One little question, I have seen a few balloon tooltips that are floating out there, how do they make it where all you have to do is write your string and wrap the word or words that you want to be a link with their tag (similar to html). Just wondering.
Thank you,
Mark
Mark Thibodeaux
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The standard tooltip control can't display links in it.
You may have to use a 3rd party control or make your own.
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I am responsible for a c++ dll that can be invoked by visual basic. Here is an example c++ prototype for one of the functions:
int __stdcall GetClock(
int device_type,
int address,
char **return_str,
int *return_str_len);
The basic premise here is that the DLL manages a buffer to which it writes text information (like the clock value). When the function is complete, the DLL will have assigned return_str to point to this internal buffer and will also have written the length of the text in the return_str_len parameter.
I am puzzled as to how to do this in visual basic 6. Other people that have been using this DLL have declared the parameter as byref string. The disturbing thing about this is that it appears to work. Any guidance would be appreciated.
Regards,
Jon Trauntvein
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Strings are passed to DLLs a little differently than the other data types in VB6.
Passing a string ByVal (by value) really just passes a pointer to that string. This is how you would normally pass a string in C too, because passing an entire array of characters would be inefficient.
Now, since passing a string ByVal passes a pointer, then logically passing a String ByRef would pass it as a double pointer. So, there you go.
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I still see a problem here. My understanding is that VB uses the BSTR type internally. This type is unicode rather than single byte and, as I understand it, this type also expects the length of the string to precede the pointer. I further believe that VB assumes responsibility for releasing the storage (given that it would be the same as a in/out parameter in COM). None of these semantic rules apply in the case of this DLL and I am obligated to keep the function calls as they are currently defined.
My solution is to change the VB prototypes so that the pointer is passed as a byref long and I have added a new function that VB applications can call that will return the results of the last call as a BSTR object.
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Yes, a VB string is a BSTR. It keeps a count of chars instead of forcing you to NULL terminate your strings. But doing a "ByVal myString" only sends the pointer to the character buffer and not the BSTR itself. Otherwise you would have a difficult time making calls to the Win32 libraries from VB6, which is a common thing. Just do a search on "VB6 API" and you'll see what I'm talking about. Now, the string that actually gets sent to your DLL will be NULL terminated. Turns out the BSTR does NULL terminate its string buffer internally (at least that's what it looks like).
Take a look at the StrPtr() function. It helps you send a VB6 string pointer to a win32 functions if you want to do this manually. You can use VarPtr() to get a pointer to a variable, such as the BSTR itself.
You might also want to take a look at StrConv() which you'll need to convert your string to/from ASCII, unicode, and MBCS (Multi-byte character system; this one is nasty).
Here's some helpful link. I just learned a couple new things myself here.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;199824[^]
http://vb.mvps.org/tips/varptr.asp[^]
http://www.romanpress.com/Articles/Strings_R/Strings.htm[^]
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Hello,
I'm fairly new to scripting in VB and especially using the WMI classes. One of the things I would like to do is get the Hard drive Serial Number. I am trying to use the Win32_PhysicalMedia but in vain. This is my code:
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject( _
"winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery( _
"Select * from Win32_PhysicalMedia")
If Err.Number = 0 Then
For Each objItem in colItems
Wscript.Echo "Serial: " & objItem.SerialNumber
Next
Else
MsgBox "The serial number could not be returned."
Err.Clear
End If
I know I'm missing something. Can someone please help me with this? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!
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What happens? Do you get an error message?
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Please keep in mind that not every manufacturer chooses to implement a WMI provider for every piece of hardware. This information may simply not be provided to WMI by the devices drivers.
RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
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Thank you for your comments. I tried the same code on another machine, and it works on giving me the serial number. I tried to change it so I can also get Model info, however that didnt work. But I found out that by using the win32_DiskDrive, I am able to get the Model info., which works. So its strange that I cannot use the Win32_PhysicalMedia.Model, when the Win32_PhysicalMedia.SerialNumber works fine. Also does it matter if its a SATA drive etc? Thank you once again!!
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There's nothing weird about it. The manufacturers are under no obligation to fill in ANY of this information. So it's not surprising that you don't see it all, let alone any of it.
RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
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Hello,
I need help with this. Everytime I run my code I get this error message "An unhandled exception of type 'System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException' occurred in system.data.dll" at ExecuteNonQuery.
If someone is an SQL and VB.Net guru any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
cmd.Parameters.Add(param22)<br />
<br />
cmd.CommandText = "EXECUTE AddtnlComments"<br />
con.Open()<br />
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()<br />
con.Close()
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Show more of the error message. The part you have shown is only telling that an error occured during a database call.
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In my code below,
When I go to a new line, it will not let me put the ( ) at the end of Dim ds As New DataSet
I can enter the parenthesis () but it removes them when I go to a new line
Also the dataAdapter.Fill(ds, "progs")
gives me the error
"Declaration expected"
Here is mycode so far:
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Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
#Region " Web Form Designer Generated Code "
'This call is required by the Web Form Designer.
<system.diagnostics.debuggerstepthrough()> Private Sub InitializeComponent()
End Sub
'NOTE: The following placeholder declaration is required by the Web Form Designer.
'Do not delete or move it.
Private designerPlaceholderDeclaration As System.Object
Private Sub Page_Init(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Init
'CODEGEN: This method call is required by the Web Form Designer
'Do not modify it using the code editor.
InitializeComponent()
End Sub
#End Region
Dim connectionString As String = "workstation id=Dude;packet size=4096;integrated security=SSPI;data source=Dozer;" & _
"persist security info=False;initial catalog=programmersheaven"
Dim conn As New SqlConnection(connectionString)
Dim commandString As String = "SELECT " + _
"artId, title, topic, " + _
"article.authorId as authorId, " + _
"name, lines, dateOfPublishing " + _
"FROM " + _
"article, author " + _
"WHERE " + _
"author.authorId = article.authorId"
Dim dataAdapter As New SqlDataAdapter(commandString, conn)
Dim ds As New DataSet
dataAdapter.Fill(ds, "progs")
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You don't need the paranthesis when there is no parameters, oddly enough.
You can't put code outside a method, only declarations.
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I moved my code under sub page_load but it still need not work?
Sorry, I am so very new at this
Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
'Put user code to initialize the page here
Dim connectionString As String = "workstation id=DOZER;packet size=4096;integrated security=SSPI;data source=Dozer;" & _
"persist security info=False;initial catalog=programmersheaven"
Dim conn As New SqlConnection(connectionString)
Dim commandString As String = "SELECT " + _
"artId, title, topic, " + _
"article.authorId as authorId, " + _
"name, lines, dateOfPublishing " + _
"FROM " + _
"article, author " + _
"WHERE " + _
"author.authorId = article.authorId"
Dim dataAdapter As New SqlDataAdapter(commandString, conn)
Dim ds As New DataSet
dataAdapter.Fill(ds, "prog")
Dim dataTable As DataTable = ds.Tables("prog")
End Sub
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Standard question #1:
What do you mean by "not working"?
Standard question #2:
What error message do you get?
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