January 20, 2000

Question: Would it be practical to use an XML document, or more accurately documents, as a database, and if so, how would you recommend doing this? I would use XML,

The Format Painter button in Microsoft FrontPage 2000 is really handy for copying a style from one area of text and applying it to another. The only problem is that

When using VB to create a new ActiveX control with a Caption or Text property, you can set the corresponding Procedure ID to cause the Property Browser to update the

Some developers suggest putting DoEvents in loops to keep your application responsive. This is never a good idea. If the loop is short, you don

I read a great advanced tip on how to create a GUID in “Generate Unique String IDs” [“101 Tech Tips for VB Developers,” Supplement to VBPJ, August 1999]. However, you

Sometimes you have to move information from a flat file (mainframe or ASCII text file) to a database. Usually, this flat file is a set of records, and the delimiter

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If you do a lot of floating-point division operations in VB, you can optimize these operations by multiplying by the reciprocal value. For example, instead of performing this calculation: X/Y

You might have wished you could right-click on a VB file and open it in Notepad, or copy a snippet of code for another app you