If you haven’t switched to DCOM yet, and still use Remote OLE Automation, you must launch the Automation Manager program on the server machine, in order to let the server
‘ The number of 1’s in a binary number” This routine is based on the following property ‘ of binary numbers: n And (n-1) always clears the’ least significant “1”
‘ Binary search in an array of any type’ Returns the index of the matching item, or -1 if the search fails” The arrays *must* be sorted, in ascending or
This is an evergreen, but it’s still popular. It is very easy to create a window that always stays on top of the others, thanks to the SetWindowPos API function.
Don’t fill your code with unnecessary DoEvents statements, especially within time-critical loops. If you can’t avoid that, at least you can reduce the overhead by invoking DoEvents only every N
Every now and then someone asks me “How can I modify the default description that is associated to an add-in I have written and that appears in the Add-In Manager?
Use “” instead of “/” when performing divisions between Integers. The “/” operator returns a Single value, therefore the seemingly efficient line C% = A% / B% actually requires three
VB stores symbolic and literal constants internally using the simplest data type possible; this means that most common numeric constants-such as zero or one-are stored as Integers. If you use
Private Declare Function GetShortPathName Lib “kernel32” Alias _ “GetShortPathNameA” (ByVal lpszLongPath As String, _ ByVal lpszShortPath As String, ByVal cchBuffer As Long) As Long’ Convert a long filename into the