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Xanty10-Feb-03 4:40

10-Feb-03 4:40

Hi!

I've a .exe program writen in ANSI C that returns the real hard drive serial member.

From VB i'm calling it doing like:

MyApp = Shell("Diskid32.exe", 0), but Shell function returns a Variant (Double) representing the program's task ID if successful, otherwise it returns zero, but not the programs output!

Can anyone help me with this?

Thank you for your time

Re: Catching return value form .exe

Ray Cassick10-Feb-03 6:59

Ray Cassick

10-Feb-03 6:59

Why not just go here:

http://www.mvps.org/vbnet/index.html?code/disk/volumelabel.htm[^]

Paul Watson wrote:
"At the end of the day it is what you produce that counts, not how many doctorates you have on the wall."

George Carlin wrote:
"Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."

Re: Catching return value form .exe

Xanty10-Feb-03 7:15

Xanty

10-Feb-03 7:15

Thank you for answering but what i need is the manufacturer serial number not the volume's!

If i know a way of doing it with VB please tell me!

Re: Catching return value form .exe

Andy H11-Feb-03 2:41

Andy H

11-Feb-03 2:41

Take a look at this URL for your solution: http://www.blackbeltvb.com/index.htm?free.htm

Re: Catching return value form .exe

Anonymous11-Feb-03 9:11

Anonymous

11-Feb-03 9:11

Well, I found the source for the utility your using. It's at http://www.codeguru.com/system/DiskId32.shtml. The only problem is, your going to have to recode it to be directly usable in VB, possibly as a DLL.

The easier way to do it is to pipe the output from the program to a text file with something like: MyApp = Shell("Diskid32.exe > log.txt", 0) You might have to use another method to get this to launch properly. But, in any case, what your going to have to do is open the log.txt file and parse it up to pull the information out of it.

It's better than writing a custom DLL to do the job...

Re: Catching return value form .exe

Xanty11-Feb-03 23:24

Xanty

11-Feb-03 23:24

Thank you all!

What i did was: I edited the c++ code to write the hard drive serial number to a file, that is imediatilly read and erased from the vb code, its not the best solution but i guess it shall work...

Thank you once more

ListView control with multi-line ColHeading

Andy H9-Feb-03 10:40

Andy H

9-Feb-03 10:40

Does anyone have or know where I can get hold of a ListView control which can be used in VB6 with the capability of multi-line ColHeading's?

If not I will see about creating my own, in C++ for use in VB6.

MaskEdBox

mcm8-Feb-03 3:20

mcm

8-Feb-03 3:20

previously, when generating reports, I entered a range of dates by means 2 textboxes. However, for the purposes of validation, i found this an inadequate way (eg it allows entry of days > 31 etc). instead i have started to use an MaskEdBox, i have set the DataFormat to Date, how do i set the format to ##/##/####? does it have similiar properties to that of the textbox? (ie MaskEdBox.Text etc)any help would be greatly appreciated, i am a newbie to this control!Thank you!

Re: MaskEdBox

Nick Parker11-Feb-03 18:26

Nick Parker

11-Feb-03 18:26

mcm wrote:
how do i set the format to ##/##/####?

MaskEdBox1.Mask = "##/##/####"

You will need to check the values to make sure that the user entered the correct values, I would suggest you write a function:

Private Sub MaskEdBox1_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)
'Do your stuff here...
End Sub

Nick Parker

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. - Theodore Roosevelt

Re: MaskEdBox

RichardGrimmer12-Feb-03 5:51

RichardGrimmer

12-Feb-03 5:51

Why dont' you try a DTPicker control - resembles a Combo, but when you hit the drop-down, it shows a Month in a calendar control. Still possible to directly enter a date, but won't let you enter an invalid one.

To use, right click your toolbox and select components. Scroll down the resulting list, and select "Microsoft Windows Common Controls 2 6.0 SP4", or browse to MSCOMCTL2.ocx. This will add the control to your toolbox, and can be used in the normal way. Help for the control is in MSDN under VBReference->Controls Reference->ActiveX COntrols

(Apologies if the preceeding is teaching my granny to suck eggs!)

syntax error in update statement

mcm7-Feb-03 23:47

mcm

7-Feb-03 23:47

Dim updateSQL As String
updateSQL = "Update Product Set " & _
" Description = '" & txtDesc.text & "', " & _
Confused | :confused:

" Where Code = '" & txtCode.Text & "'"
Set RS = Conn.Execute(updateSQL)

This statement executes fine when i test it in access but here, it returns the above error. I have checked that all the fields are the same as that in the database and the textboxes match aswell. Neither txtcode or txtDesc are bound to any component. What could the problem be? if you need any more information, please let me know, any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Re: syntax error in update statement

Andy H8-Feb-03 1:46

Andy H

8-Feb-03 1:46

You don't need the comma after the txtDesc.text. So the correct SQL command should work with:

updateSQL = "UPDATE Product SET Description = '" & txtDesc.text & "'" & _<br />
            "WHERE Code = '" & txtCode.text & "'"<br />
<br />
Set RS = Conn.Execute(updateSQL)

HTH

Messenger service status (ASP)

-- NA --7-Feb-03 23:19

-- NA --

7-Feb-03 23:19

Hi - i have a website in ASP, and was wondering if it's possible to have a status display of my login status for MSN messenger? (u know like the Yahoo! logged in/not logged in script)

Thanks

Paul W

Only the good die young,
all the evil seem to live for ever.
- Iron Maiden, Only the Good Die Young

modified 18-Jul-18 11:59am.

Row headings in MSHFlexGrid (VB6)

Andy H7-Feb-03 12:10

Andy H

7-Feb-03 12:10

I have an app written in VB6 which uses the MSHFlexGrid. I would like to add heading to the columns which have two lines. Is it possible to use a CR in the heading text or am I forced to use two rows?

If as I suspect I have to use two rows, how do I hide the row lines in the heading rows?

ADO or RDO

Tarun Dutt Mathur6-Feb-03 23:27

Tarun Dutt Mathur

6-Feb-03 23:27

Hi, I want to make such a software in which i want to connect my SQL database situated on a remote server to the software residing in my PC. So is there any other apporoach other then creating the DSN and using it with ADO?

Please tell me to be a professional software developer should i develope command over VB of VC++

Regards

Re: ADO or RDO

RichardGrimmer25-Feb-03 5:32

RichardGrimmer

25-Feb-03 5:32

Think that you may be misunderstanding things here a little. If you specify a DSN in an ADO conneciton string, the conneciton will actually go through the ODBC driver / layer. However, if you specify a connection string of the format:

strConnString = "Provider = SQLOLEDB;Database=<DBNAME>;<br />
Datasource=<SERVERNAME>"

Then the OLEDB provider for SQLServer will be used to connect to the machine specified by <servername> and the database specified by <dbname>. You'll also have ot provide a UID and PWD though.

Printing

Rage6-Feb-03 23:11

Rage

6-Feb-03 23:11

Hi all,

Friend asked me the following question, and since I do not know VB at all, i'll try it here.
So, in a Excel macro, he wants to set the active printer as "\\NTS198\\PFK" which is our color printer. But the port used to install the printer differs from user to user, that is, name of the printer in Excel is sometimes "\\NTS198\\PFK auf Ne02" or "\\NTS198\\PFK auf Ne01". and using Application.ActivePrinter() will throw an error if the name of the printer is not correct. So my question is, how do I find the port on which the "\\NTS198\\PFK" printer is on, so that i can use Application.ActivePrinter() without error ?

~RaGE();

Printing from Spreadsheet

nm_maheswaran6-Feb-03 22:33

nm_maheswaran

6-Feb-03 22:33

Hello,
I am developing an application in which i use the OfficeXp component to display the values from the database.
Now i face a problem in making Print Preview and Printing the SpreadSheet using Visual basic.

Thanks, Smile | :)

Regards,
maheswaran

Rose | [Rose]

Foreign Key Constraint Message

Mike Murphy6-Feb-03 10:58

Mike Murphy

6-Feb-03 10:58

Hi...Sorry to be a pest. Perhaps related to my earlier post, but I'm getting the following message when I preview the dataset in the IDE: ForeignKeyConstraint 'EmployeeComments' requires the child key values (115) to exist in the parent table.

This doesn't make sense. The relationship seems easy enough. The primary key and foreign keys are the same as far as Interger (8), nulls not allowed. Any ideas.

Thanks in advance,

Mike

Re: Foreign Key Constraint Message

Anonymous11-Feb-03 8:58

Anonymous

11-Feb-03 8:58

Simple. You have two tables (Table1 and Table2). Table2 has records that relate to records in Table1. The only thing holding the relationship is the fact that the two tables share a common field:

Table1: Table2:
recID ID# of record recID ID# of record in table 1
Name Some name Info1 Some information related to table1
Address Some address Info2 Some information related to table1

Both tables share a recID field. But, Table2 can have multiple records with the the same recID from Table1, this is a 1-to-many relationship. One record in Table1 is related to Many records in Table2.

The problem your running into is there is a recID in Table2 that doesn't exist in Table1. It's a record that doesn't have a relationship to any record in Table1.

You can probably code a SELECT statement to find the 'orphaned' records in Table2 for you, but I don't know exactly how to do it.

Please HELP - WindowForm Problem

Mike Murphy6-Feb-03 9:51

Mike Murphy

6-Feb-03 9:51

Hi...I've designed a form (winform) using VB.net standard. I used the data form wizard to construct it. It has a parent table record and 2 child table datagrids connected via oledb. I'll get into the construction when all of a sudden I get this message "DataBinding could not find a row in the list that is suitable for all bindings." What the hell is this? I can't find it anywhere in the knowledgebase or newsgroups. It is driving me crazy. The form code (.vb) is still there but the form (designer) is all screwed up. This has happended several times. Am I the only one who has experienced this. Microsoft....are you there? Mad | :mad:

Thanks in advance,

Mike

VB.Net Tutorials (Real Ones)

xBlitzerx6-Feb-03 5:11

xBlitzerx

6-Feb-03 5:11

hey, i'll post this again, it got deleted last time..

All i wanna know is where I can find some GOOD tutorials for VB.Net
I've read my textbook several times...

Possibly a tutorial for graphics (games)

Thanks

______________________________________________
"I'm not me when I dream...anymore." -TRUSTcompany

Re: VB.Net Tutorials (Real Ones)

xBlitzerx7-Feb-03 5:59

xBlitzerx

7-Feb-03 5:59

Please someone one respond!!!

______________________________________________
"I'm not me when I dream...anymore." -TRUSTcompany

Re: VB.Net Tutorials (Real Ones)

xBlitzerx7-Feb-03 5:59

xBlitzerx

7-Feb-03 5:59

Please someone respond!!!

______________________________________________
"I'm not me when I dream...anymore." -TRUSTcompany

Re: VB.Net Tutorials (Real Ones)

Ray Cassick7-Feb-03 7:13

Ray Cassick

7-Feb-03 7:13

Ok, here you go…

http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/[^]

http://www.vb-helper.com/tutorial.htm[^]

http://www.vbwm.com/resources/default.asp?page=TutorialsVBNET[^]

http://www.troobloo.com/tech/vbdotnet.shtml[^]

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