July 30, 1997

When working with multiple projects, it’s easy to get confused by the many windows active on the screen atthe same time. However, you can temporarily hide all the windows related

Here are a few simple ways you can customize your VB5 IDE: Add tabs to the custom control toolbox by right-clicking on the General button and selecting the Add Tab

Unlike templates in other Office 97 products, Word 97 templates provide a business-application engine thatremains separate from the documents that use that engine. Template-based Excel workbooks andPowerPoint presentations include a

A popular code snippet lets you center any form on the screen, regardless of the current screen resolution. You now can reach the same result by simply assigning the value

Never pass a global variable as an argument to a procedure that also accesses the variable directly. If you’re 100 percent sure you adhered to this rule within your application,

If you ever programmed under VB4, you probably took advantage of the powerful Optional parameters. VB5 enhanced them in several ways: they can be of any type now (not only

If you take a look at VB’s native code optimization options for the first time, you might be tempted to click on “Optimize for Fast Code” right away. Strange as

Visual Basic 5.0 lets you comment a block of code in a snap and uncomment it later. This feature is useful in the debug phase, when you don’t want to