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    Control Printer Advanced Settings

    Hey ruskie, No, I never did find a way to do that. I followed some leads on other forums but came up empty. I didn't have a lot of time to spare, so I ended up just writing some opaque text to the drawing in the upper regions, away from the dimensions (hopefully). It's not pretty, but...
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    Control Printer Advanced Settings

    I need to be able to change the advanced settings of a printer by means of VB6 code with no user intervention. I want to activate the Watermark function in the printer settings, before printing out a machine drawing so that when it prints it will show "Confidential" across it. Then, after the...
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    Email with visual Basic

    I have had my share of problems with the MAPI component in VB6 and searched for and found a very nice alternative at freevbcode.com. Check out vbSendMail.dll at this link: http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.Asp?ID=109 It may work for you.
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    Package & Deployment: Include folders

    It seems that setting up Dependencies only allows files and not folders. Maybe a script is the answer --- the question is how would I incorporate a script and what would it look like to add a folder to the setup? I'll post this question at the MS site that you suggested, but any ideas would be...
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    Package & Deployment: Include folders

    Cadcamguy, Thanks for the suggestion(s), hadn't thought of that! I will give it a try tomorrow and reply back.
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    Package & Deployment: Include folders

    Is it possible to include a Folder in the setup package created by the VB6 Package and Deployment Wizard? It allows you to include files but I can't find a way to include some support folders that my program needs. Thanks.

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