September 30, 2000

The behavior of the LostFocus event has changed in the transition from VB4 to VB5. Under VB4, if a control on a form has the input focus and the user

Here’s a simple test that you can use to determine whether the application is running on a system equipped with a Pentium CPU affected by the FDIV bug: ‘ return

When dealing with proper names, you may want to capitalize the first letter of each word, e.g. convert “john smith” into “John Smith”. Under VB3 you had to write a

Visual Basic stores UDTs in unpacked format, that is it alignes all UDT elements to the double word (except that Integers and Boolean are aligned to the word, and byte

The TreeView control exposes the AfterLabelEdit event to let the programmer validate the text entered in a Node, but there is no way to trap keys as they are typed

VB official documentation seems to encourage you to use “$-less” string functions, e.g. Left, LTrim or UCase, instead of their time-honored Left$, LTrim$ and UCase$ counterparts. If you do so,

The following is an example to handle errors in VB. It combines “On ErrorGoTo” and “On Error Resume Next” to handle all errors (minor orserious ones), as well as attempting