Register ActiveX & TypeLibs
This post was imported from an old blog archive, and predates the creation of AdamCaudill.com. This is just a simple registry modification, just paste this into Notepad (or any plain text editor), save it as register.reg (or anything else so long as it has the .reg extension) then just double-click and you’re done! REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dll] @="dllfile" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\Shell] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\Shell\Register] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\Shell\Register\Command] @="\"REGSVR32.EXE\" \"%1\"" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\Shell\Unregister] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\Shell\Unregister\Command] @="\"REGSVR32.EXE\" /u \"%1\"" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ocx] @="ocxfile" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ocxfile] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ocxfile\shell] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ocxfile\shell\Register] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ocxfile\shell\Register\Command] @="\"REGSVR32.
Read more…XP-Style Controls In Visual Basic 6
This post was imported from an old blog archive, and predates the creation of AdamCaudill.com. This is a quick and dirty overview of how to get those ever so coveted XP controls in your application. There is a lot of detail I’m leaving out, but you should get the point, if you want more detail a google search or two should give you plenty of info. Let’s get started…. First you need to make a manifest file, this is just a plain text file that tells Windows how to treat you program.
Read more…CloseApp
This post was imported from an old blog archive, and predates the creation of AdamCaudill.com. This is a useful function to close a program based on a windows caption, this should work for any top-level window. Paste all this into a standard module, save it. Then call CloseApp("Notepad") or whatever the name of the window is, it’s nice & simple and should close the program instantly. This requires Windows 2000 plus, for older versions of Windows a different method is required, that isn’t covered here, seeing as Windows 2000 and better require special privileges to forcefully close a program.
Read more…The SWEBS Project & The SWEBS Control Center
This post was imported from an old blog archive, and predates the creation of AdamCaudill.com. I’m currently serving as the project manager & user interface designer for the project, here is the project’s goal & mission statement: “The SWEBS Web Server is designed to be an easy to use web server that offers the functionality of enterprise web servers but with a very easy to use and configure interface. It is created as a learning tool to be used by anyone new to web development.
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