have u tried Microsoft's HTML Help Workshop... if not... try it... its really cool stuff... all u need to do is to design cool help in HTML format.... u can use whatever OLE objects u want in the HTML files.. then add use HTML Help Workshop to convert it into a CHM file (compiled HTML File)... u can find the software in [[http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/htmlhelp/html/vsconhh1start.asp](<a href= "New Window")[^]">^] the same is used to develop MSDN Help. if u have already tried it then... go for a flash help system... that would satisfy all ur needs of good design for a help system. all the best.. - thanks and regards, Basavaraj P.Umadi

hi, i have tried it to import it into my application which serves the same purpose as u have told abt ur website... what basically i did was .. first i exported my contacts to a CSV format...(For outlook or for yahoo).. u can view this file in excel or notepad.. this shows a comma seperated structure maintained by the yahoo... read the format and thru asp u can get the contents... i had done it in VB... in ur case there is a problem that u want to access an account thru your webpage.. for that maybe u need to get some special privilages to login thru an application into yahoo/msn and then request for the CSV file.. all the best...

if u have installed flash in your machine u can use the ActiveX control.... i have tried it in VB...:-> just insert that activex control in ur VC formview... all the best.. - thanks and regards, Basavaraj P.Umadi

thanks a lot for the response.... i tried the ARP thing.. BUT..... it sets only the STATIC IP address to my device.. when i ping to that IP it wont respond...:sigh: :confused: plz tell me by anyway i can set the DYNAMIC IP... i have one application which sets DYNAMIC IP.. :-O but i m not able to do the same in my code...:~ - thanks and regards, Basavaraj P.Umadi

hi, i want to set IP address to a device (not a PC) that has a ethernet port. i know the MAC address of the device. Using MAC address i want to set a custom IP address to it. i searched for WIN32APIs, and this forum but did not get a solution... plz help me in this regard...:confused: if any other windows based programming has this feature plz let me know... - thanks, Basavaraj P.Umadi

hi, under the WIN32API we have CreateMutex function... u can use this function to check whether the appilcation is already running.. by its return values u can re-invoke the existing one... Public Declare Function CreateMutex Lib "kernel32" Alias "CreateMutexA" (lpMutexAttributes As SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES, ByVal bInitialOwner As Long, ByVal lpName As String) As Long this is the declaration for that function.(from API text viewer) u can also find help in MSDN abt this. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;258088[^] use this link... heres a vb sample.... Option Explicit Const ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS = 183 Public Declare Function CreateMutex Lib "Coredll" Alias "CreateMutexW" _ (lpMutexAttributes As Long, _ ByVal bInitialOwner As Long, _ ByVal lpName As String) As Long Public Declare Function GetLastError Lib "Coredll" () As Long Private Sub Form_Load() Dim error_code CreateMutex CLng(0), 1, App.Title If GetLastError() = ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS Then MsgBox "Already running", vbOKOnly, App.Title App.End Else 'run the application MsgBox "OK to run" End If End Sub all the best.. - thanks and regards, Basavaraj P.Umadi

hello, i tried to use the ExitWindowsEx() WINAPI in Visual Basic 6, i use Windows XP OS and i want to reboot my pc after some installation (designed in vb). the parameters include 0 for logoff, 1 for shutdown and 2 for reboot..... if i use 0 (logoff) it works fine, but when i use 1 or 2 .... it wont execute... enters into err handler... here is the code... If ExitWindowsEx(2, 0) = 0 Then MsgBox "The system could not REBOOT the machine. !" End If previous to this we need to define the function.. Public Declare Function ExitWindowsEx& Lib "user32" (ByVal uFlags As Long, ByVal dwReserved As Long) plz help me... - thanks, Basavaraj P.Umadi

hi, when u open a VB6 project file (*.vbp) in DotNet IDE, the migration utility for conversion popps up... just follow the instructions..... finally it will generate a list of errors or code which it was unable to convert into VB.NET... for that some perticular help is also provided... by just following those steps u can get ur work done... all the best....:) - thanks and regards, Basavaraj P.Umadi