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A code editor comparable to Scintilla and Monaco

After 7 years of hard work, I recently finished my code editor, which offers almost all the features of the Scintilla and Monaco editors, while at the same time, it has higher performance and takes up...

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How do you get the handle of a console?

How do I detect if a program is running with a console? Is there a way to programatically check if a console is already allocated, for example to make sure I don't call AllocConsole unnecessarily? I...

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VB6 to Windows 10 WaveIn

Windows 10 keeps throwing curveballs, can’t seem to get any WaveIn functions to work. Assuming its because Windows Media Center is no longer part of the OS? Here are some of the wave functions...

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[RESOLVED] Why does a laptop not 'Wake up' ?

Hi, We have a cheap little laptop which is only used for simple little games or for surfing the web. A Toshiba Dynabook Satellite Pro. OS: Windows 10. version 10.0.19045.0. x64. The options for the...

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Saving VBForums locally with HTTrack!

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need help with usercontol for Date entry

I am looking to create a user control that will be a text box ( but similar to a maskedit box) I would like to put a date in this box like 23/05/2025 I would like to be able to edit this box as i type,...

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ImpLib SDK - free programming tools for authoring custom import libraries for...

ImpLib SDK combines free programming tools for authoring custom import libraries for Windows DLL (32 and 64-bit). The SDK supports advanced features, like cdecl2stdcall conversion, importing by...

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Extract from PDF using iTextSharp

I am very new to iTextSharp. I am in need to extract all the contents from a PDF from a given region. Here I want to extract Text (with all settings like font, size, etc.), photos, graphics,...

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What can be done in C (not C++) that VB6 can't?

I'm ready to convert several C codebases (e.g. QuickJS) into VB6 code. I wonder what can be done in C (not C++) code that VB6 can't? Thanks!

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Missing: Microsoft Excel 8.0 Object Library

One of references in my old project is missing. I am using now MS Excel 2016 but I cannot find any available references in the Available References list. There are a lot of Microsoft references but...

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InvokeMember("keyup" not working?

I have the code below that I use InvokeMember to have a autosearch combobox list the search items. This is for a company portal so only my code and HTML code for the section available. In the exact...

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Generating all combinations

Hey ya'll, I've been trying to come up with a way that I can generate all possible combinations 3 numbers over the span of a variable length. For example, the numbers are 1, 2, and 3. I want to...

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[RESOLVED] Unable to delete a folder due to read only permissions but can...

I am trying to figure out why I can't delete a folder that has it's read only permissions set to true when either created programmatically, or manually under windows file explorer, but am able to move...

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Converting boolean values to string

I have a VB6 aplication, and there are some pcs where CSTR(True) evaluates to "Verdadero" And in these PCs, the application fails. Knows somebody why? Edit: Cstr(False) evaluates to "False", the...

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VS 2015 Enabling a VS2015 option

I just ‘upgraded’ my system to Visual Studio 2015 (after first uninstalling VS 2012, removing folders, etc). The one thing I cannot figure out is this: With VS 2012, when I would click File->New...

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