April 27, 1999

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