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I've faced a strange problem these days. I'm just on the way to finish a VideoGrabber class library in the NET 2013. This library is basically using a wrapper library for DirectShow...

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I'm on the crossroad in choosing the technologies for the development of one new project.
I have to use one 3D body model made by 3D Studio Max (3ds file format). It has to be...

Some dlls are from 3rd party developer and all my components are written for x86. Is there any workaround? Is this ctl3d32.dll really so important or can I bypass somehow?

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I just experienced some strange problem. Some normal custom controls distributed with my application don't work in Windows 7, however in Windows XP they are fine. I found out that...

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Seems to be I solved the problem. I would like to share my experience.
Here it is what I did to using "regasm.exe" register a COM interop dll written in VB.NET 2010:

1) First of all,...

There is only one user: Developer (without any password) and he is the system administrator.

UAC was initially enabled but I turned off. I getting the same message from regasm in command prompt window. When I run command prompt as administrator then works! But how to execute regasm as...

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I just developed one COM interop component in VB.NET 2010. Everything is fine, on my development machine everything works properly.
I would like to distribute this dll with all...

All systems are with WinXP. I'm using timers in the project (downloaded from www.vbaccelerator.com/home/VB/Code/Libraries/Subclassing/SSubTimer/article.asp). Actually, this application is written for...

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I experienced a strange problem in the last couple of days. Software written in VB6 (using GDI+) is running slower on some machines which has much better hardware than my developer...

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Is there any possibility to display a JPEG image from the memory? The JPEG image is stored into Byte array. JPEG is in the same form in the memory as in JPEG files (do not mix with DIB...

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Is anybody using "JpegLib.lib" JPEG library from the Independent JPEG Group?
I need some informations. Is this library exist as dll too? I want to use some exported jpeg functions...

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Does anybody know how VB store the strings internaly in memory? Basicaly, I want to copy the string from the memory into byte array using CopyMemory API, but I can retrieve on this way...

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The following code creates a 1:n relation with referential integrity with the ADOX:

With objKey
.Name = "users/patients"
.Type = adKeyForeign
...

Thanks for the links! I will try now this tools and I hope that I can make some optimization on my code :)
Thank you again.

Bela

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Is there any tool for debugging and profiling the VB source code? Something like MZTools' option "Review Source Code" (addin for VB, www.mztools.com), but with feature to check API...

Here it is. I simplified a little, but the essential parts are there.

Bela

Hello jeroen79,

This button is nothin special. It has behaviour as the normal command button, but it uses GDI+ to draw edges, caption and the gradient background. And can simulate hover effect...

Hello RobDog888,

I have VB6 and I'm using GDI APIs. Is there any difference in performances between GDI APIs and GDI+ classes?

Bela

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I have just developed one button ocx in VB6 using GDI+ library. The button is rendered completely using GDI+ calls. All GDI+ functions are translated and present as API functions in...

Thank you Fishy. No problem with ADO libraries and dependencies. I can install everything, but some providers have missed. In case of WinXP I couldn't install MS JET provider (from earlier MDAC),...

I have converted database to Access 97 format because of some compatibility reasons (and JET 4.0 OLE DB to 3.51).

I'm not using ODBC. I don't know way, but the MS JET OLE DB provider is not installed on new XP installations. It comes with MS Access. Of course, I can not expect from customers to has MS Access...

Hello Randem,

Basicaly, I have no language specified in connection string. The funniest thing is that this application was worked few weeks ago on my test machine, but now doesn't want to work (as...

Hello Fishy,

How should I do this check? Anyway, what is a relation between ODBC and OLEDB? These things should be independent from each other, or?

Bela

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I have searched the list for this topic, but I didn't find solution for my problem.
I have VB6 application which uses "Microsoft.jet.oledb.db.4.0" in the connection string to connect...

Thank you for the tips. I will leave the camera and the software to work over night. Sometimes is very hard to work with APIs (mybe the exception is if you have started as C/C++ programmer and not as...

Thank you Merri for the reply. The problem is solved. Deletion of g_BackSurface.hBmp was the problem. After commenting out this line, everything is near perfect. :)
Basically I spend almost 2 weeks...

Not in the "same time", but it is called much more frequently than my code can process the DIB, or the memory is locked (this is what I don't know).

This function is called from one external dll...

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I have a not so simple problem. I have a callback function what has to
process some memory tasks. But before the code can be finished, this
function is called again (I don't know...

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I'm using the latest Digital Camera SDK from the Canon (ver. 7.3). Canon doesn't support VB6 development anymore.
But I have translated all included .h files to proper VB6 declarations.
...