There are two ways to reference an ActiveX in Visual Basic 6.0. The first is to select “Project–>References” from the VB6 menu. The second way is to select “Project–>Components…” from the VB6 menu. Important: You should do one or the other, but not both. Which do you choose? Use “Project–>References” if you are going to instantiate the ActiveX dynamically. In […]
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If a Chilkat method fails because a file was not found, the LastErrorText will contain information such as this: ChilkatLog: LoadFromFile: DllDate: Sep 1 2009 filename: myCert.cer Failed to open file (2) filename: myCert.cer currentWorkingDirectory: c:\windows\system32\inetsrv osErrorInfo: The system cannot find the file specified. WindowsError: 0x2 Failed. There are two key pieces of information to allow you to know the […]
Question: In your examples online, we have noticed that .Dispose() is never called after using Chilkat classes (we are writing in C#). Is calling .Dispose() recommended? Does your code not need to destroy any native resources or handles that would normally be cleaned up in the Dispose method (the IDisposeable interface) ? Answer: For objects that manage a TCP/IP socket […]
ActiveX components and controls have been around for many years. Unfortunately, when regsvr32 fails to register a DLL, the only information provided is an error code. Usually in the format of a 32-bit hex number, such as 0x80004005 (although not necessarily that particular error code, I simply picked one at random for this blog post). If you search the Internet, […]
Question: I don’t see anything in the documentation or examples to indicate that “su” is supported w/ SSH? Is it possible to login to a user account and then “su” to root? Answer: “su” is a command just like any other Unix/Linux command. It is typed at the command prompt, it does something, and a response is written to standard […]