I am building a program to run on my PC in the background. I am going to program it in VB 6.0, because that is what I have available. The program will interact with a remote web domain every 5 minutes, download a file, and then transfer the file to my web server. A previously answered question lays out the basic program design. If you are interested, the previous question was:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Programming_Languages/Visual_Basic/Q_22057064.html
I am not sure about some details.
1. Which kind of project in VB should I start? I am referring to this screen shot when asking this:
http://207.234.222.20/pics/VBProjType.JPG
2. How do I make certain I have the latest/correct version of Inet control (Microsoft Internet Transfer Control)? I am running VB 6.0 on XP Pro and IE7, with all critical updates.
Thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide.
In terms of the latest / with updates I take it you are thinking of security flaws - on the basis that shipping out of date dll's etc would be bad. In that respect I would look at doing it the other way round and dont rely on a specific version of the dll, even if you were able to ship the most upto date version, by next month it would be out of date and contains more flaws found since.
I would late bind to an instance of Internet Explorer, and control it through the object model.
i.e.
dim myIE as Object
set myIE = CreateObject("InternetExpl
This places responsbility for patching IE on the user / automatic updates.
hth.