February 4, 1999

Question: I’ve written a page that uses expandable outlines using the display property of SPAN objects and it works fine in Internet Explorer 4. However, Netscape does not seem to

Question: I get a string from the Microsoft Index Server like this: “Information uber”. If I try to assign this string to a variable I get a runtime error: “Invalid

The last digit in your credit card number is a check digit derived from the other digits using the Luhn Formula as described in ISO/IEC 7812-1:1993. Its primary purpose is

VB supports conditional compilation, just like Visual C++. However, Visual C++ has a predefined constant named _DEBUG that makes it easy to include code only while debugging, as in this

Visual InterDev 6 colors HTML and script to make it easier to pick out the type of code and syntax errors. However, many programmers put frequently used routines in an

Sometimes, you want to show a form that you don’t want users to be able to cancel by clicking on the X-it might not make sense for your app. The

Use this code to create a class called HiResTimer: ‘The number is codified as HighPart*2^32+LowPartPrivate Type LARGE_INTEGER LowPart As Long HighPart As LongEnd TypePrivate Declare Function QueryPerformanceCounter Lib _ “kernel32”

You’ll often want to display a checkbox-style listbox to show users the values they have selected in an underlying database. However, you don’t want to allow users to change the

Here’s a little routine that provides a quick and dirty way to call up some of the more oddball features of the Windows shell. It works by emulating user keystrokes,