The VB CommandButton control supports neither the ForeColor nor the BackColor properties. If you want to create colorful buttons without resorting to 3rd party controls, you can use an OptionButton
The ComboBox control doesn’t expose any property that lets you to control the width of its list area, but this can be easily accomplished by sending it the CB_SETDROPPEDWIDTH message,
Unlike the TextBox control, the ComboBox control doesn’t expose any MaxLength property, so you have no means of limiting the numbers of characters typed by the end user in the
By default, VB’s CheckBox controls automatically toggle their Value property when the user clicks on them. This is usually the desired behavior, but at times you may want to be
The new FlatScrollbar controls expose the ability to selectively disable their arrows. This is useful, for example, when the thumb indicator is at its minimum or maximum: Private Sub FlatScrollBar1_Change()
Most VB controls don’t let you determine whether they should display a scrollbar or not. For example, a VB ListBox control displays a vertical scrollbar only when the number of
Contrary to common belief, Debug.Print statements are not always removed from an executable. This behavior can be demonstrated easily. Open a new project, place a single CommandButton on the default
It’s possible to streamline some calculation procedures in Excel and add calculation capabilities that don’t exist in Word. Unfortunately, most textbooks on VB for Office 97 are focused on nonmathematical
Because server/client round-trips are inherently inefficient, you should try to eliminate the need for excessive round-trips. When you design a class or a user-defined interface, you should never expose three