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This is the error message that I am receiving when I try to stop my usb camera properly. It worked perfectly for a few months then I got a sony 64mb USB drive (the little keychain type). That worked a couple of times then I started to get the error message saying that It could not stop the usb...

I have a program that collects activity duration data in the form of an activity start date (and time) to it's end date (and time). For example activity A started 09/23/2002 10:48 am and ended 09/23/2002 1:21 pm. I need to be able to construct a sql query that captures the activity durations...

I wrote a program for a friend that goes to music sites and retrieves the top artists for the week (e.g. http://www.muchmusic.com/tv/countdown or http://www.billboard.com/billboard/charts/hot100.jsp). It works fine, but I got to thinking about how to make it more flexible. I have the parse...

I have a program that has to calculate a large number of permutions (12! to be exact) and I would like to be able to display an estimate of long till the program is finished it's calculations (something similar to what IE displays when downloading a file). I was thinking of using the...

I need an app that I am writing to be able to accept command line parameters (which I know how to do). But I also need it to be able to accept them when the app is running without creating a new instance of itself. Basically the app will be shelled to from another program (not a VB or my...

I want to be able to transfer an object from one PC over the network to another PC. I have been reading that object serialization is what I am looking for. Currently I have my own routines within the objects that serializes the data into a specifc string that contains all the information that...

I found some code on PSC that appends a CRC32 checksum to the end of a file. The interesting thing about this program is that it just verifies sections of the executable. Normally the sections that are protected are where the registration routine is located. I converted the code to a class and...

I have a large bitmap (1024x768) and I want to be able to split the bitmap up into smaller bitmaps(or images) for analysis. The idea is to be able to define a size say 100x100 and VB goes through with the 100x100 cookie cutter creating (approximately 70) new files in memory or saved to disc...

Over the weekend I stumbled accross a game website www.pogo.com. It looked interesting (at least to pass an hour or two), particularly a game called popit. I started to think about ways I could generate solutions to the puzzle. I then noticed an advirtisement for a weblink that claimed to have a...

I modified the sub below from source I found on the net to copies files using a buffer and a byte array. It seems to work but the newly copied files have an extra byte and I don't know where it is coming from? Any ideas on how to improve this code would also be appreciated.... Thanks...

I am using an inet control to try and retrieve the logs from my router (dlink di-704). The router can be accessed by a standard web browser. Below is the code that excutes when the form button is clicked in the browser. I can use an Inet1.execute statement, but I don' know how to format the...

I am trying to create a program that downloads webpages from a server on the internet. I can get it to download the webpages with out a problem. But If I download too many webpages in a row, the server sends me a webpage complaining that I have too many connections to it. I don't understand...

I have a database containing about 12000 names and address. What I want to be able to do is display the first 100 records or so and then have the user click on a link to get the next 100 records. Ultimately I would like to be able to setup something that search engines have: pages: 1-10...

I can easily view the logs on the router, I know what the html address of the router is to retrieve the log files. What I need to know is how to log on to the router using a programing language like vb. In other words how do I send the password to the router verifying that I am an adminstrator...

I am having a problem with mdi forms. I have an mdiform with a number of mdiChildren. I can open up a large number of these children and they open according to a cascading pattern, which is fine. When I close all the mdiChildren, and open up a new mdiChild form, it appears in the next cascade. I...

Private Declare Function SHDeleteKey Lib "Shlwapi" Alias "SHDeleteKeyA" ( _ ByVal hKey As Long, ByVal lpSubKey As String) As Long hCurKey = HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE 'this is the hex value: &H80000002 strLastKey ="SOFTWARE\myCompany\MyProgram\MRU\file1" if...

What control (if any?) would provide similar functionality to the windows explorer address bar. Basically I am looking for something that looks fancy and allows the user to pick a directory. I currently have a textbox that is liked to the browse for a folder dialog.... Troy Williams B.Eng...

Below is the code that I am using to collect files from explorer in a multiple drag and drop operation to a text box located on my VB form. It works great, but I can't get the icon (draging icon) to change to a custom (one that I created) icon when it hovers over the textbox. I have tried the...

I am having an odd "problem"?? I have an mdi form which acts as the container to my mdi children. One of the child forms has a menu on it. When that child form is opened, it's menu replaces the containers menu. Now this would be pretty cool if the child's menu was appended to the...

I have windows xp pro, and I was monkeying around with tweak UI to get rid of the bubble tips that pop up. I managed to get rid of them, but I had lost my "connect to" menu entry in the start menu. I found the setting that I had flipped and got the entry back, but know it doesn't...