




Append a string to a textbox quickly and without flickering
The usual way to append text to a TextBox or a RichTextBox control is to concatenate the current contents with the new string: Text1.Text = Text1.Text & newString Here is
The usual way to append text to a TextBox or a RichTextBox control is to concatenate the current contents with the new string: Text1.Text = Text1.Text & newString Here is
To programmatically open and close the list portion of a ComboBox control, all you need is sending the CB_SHOWDROPDOWN message to the control. Here is a routine that encapsulate the
You can load several instances of the same form, but VB doesn’t let you determine how many forms of a given class are currently loaded. You can work around this
Not all developers know that Timer controls in compiled VB5 and VB6 applications aren’t stopped by MsgBox statement, so the Timer’s Timer event procedure is regularly executed even when the