August 6, 1997

In Windows 95, only the VB windows with the property ShowInTaskbar setto True are minimized if you select Minimize All Windows from the taskbar context menu. This is the way

Don’t set the MousePointer in an OLE DLL unless absolutely necessary. The in-process OLE server can not retrieve the current mouse pointer, so there is no way to set it

When you need to reset your tab indexes quickly (without buying a third party VB extension product), set the tabs in the reverse tab order assigning each tab index to

You have an object variable declared in the Declarations section ofa form. In the Form_Load event, you create an instance of a class and assignit to the variable. However, when

Do you have a module or class of the same name as a system-providedobject? If so, VB will use your object, not its own. In VB3, where youcouldn’t define your

I’ll present this tip the VB3 way and the VB4 way. I beat myself fora couple of hours over this routine to convert a string to Title Case.I used this

The Properties collection of many data access objects is very helpfulwhen debugging. Execute this code from the debug window: For i = 0 to Recordset1.Properties.Count- 1:Debug.Print _ Recordset1.Properties(i).Name &Recordset1.Properties(i):Next

You create a routine that uses the Typename() function to find out thetype of an object, and based on that type, performs certain actions. However,when used in a Form object,

Use object substitution to substitute a simple name with an extendedobject reference. Each “.” in the syntax represents an OLE lookup.Better performance is achieved the fewer times lookups need to