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If you are developing a game in VB or an application that plays sounds, you probably want to check that a sound card actually exists. There is an API function
If you are developing a game in VB or an application that plays sounds, you probably want to check that a sound card actually exists. There is an API function
You can use the ShellExecute API function to programmatically open a window of Explorer and display the contents of the Recycle Bin. This is the function’s declare: Private Declare Function
Option ExplicitPrivate Type SHQUERYRBINFO cbSize As Long ‘ bytes in this structure i64Size As Currency ‘ 64-bit integer with size of items in the Recycle ‘ Bin i64NumItems As Currency
Private Declare Function SHEmptyRecycleBin Lib “shell32.dll” Alias _ “SHEmptyRecycleBinA” (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal pszRootPath As String, _ ByVal dwFlags As Long) As LongConst SHERB_NOCONFIRMATION = &H1Const SHERB_NOPROGRESSUI = &H2Const
ne way to implement an inactivity timeout in an application is to keep track of the last time a MouseEvent or KeyEvent was sent to an application. In a separate
n last month’s 10-Minute Solution, you learned how to display data from a database. This time, you’ll see how to use this technique to pick and choose what to display
ere’s an interesting conundrum. You have an application that doesn’t have an object model (or has one that’s so hideously complex that you’d just as soon not pay a programmer
he experience of answering e-mail to the SQL Server Pro on DevX has made me appreciate the limits of my knowledge and experience. Some questions are funny because they are
he Outlook View control released by Microsoft allows you to display an Outlook folder in your application. The folder displayed in the control is fully functional; you can create, open,