If you are using the new mail program that can be downloaded for free from Microsoft’s Web site, you can run it from within your program. Simply add this command
You can use the Wingdings font to put simple graphics on a standard command button. Put a standard command button on a form, and in the Properties window, change the
“Hide” an MDI child form with a non-sizable border style (0 or 1) using this code in the MDI child’s Form_Load event: form1.Move form1.Left, form1.Top, 0, 0 Use a label
The API functions “_hwrite” and “_hread” can be useful for writing arrays directly to files and, at some later time, reading these files directly into arrays having the same structure.
Columns in a DBGrid control are bound to database fields. However, the index number of a column doesn’t tell you which field it represents. Therefore, referring to DBGrid1.Columns(0).Value is not
The tip “Remember SWAP?” [“101 Hot Tech Tips for VB Developers,” Supplement to the August 1996 issue of VBPJ, page 13] has a common error. This line actually creates three
When using the line-continuation character facility-the combination of a space followed by an underscore (_) used in the development environment to extend a single logical line of code to two
Omitting the counter from a Next statement does not speed up a For loop. Calling a procedure in a BAS module is not slower than calling a procedure contained in
When you’re dynamically adding ColumnHeaders to a ListView control at run time, you may not know how long the text for the header will be, so the user must readjust