August 7, 2001

DevX

Communicating With XML Files

Start a new VB project. Add a form (or use the default one). Then, add these four buttons on the form: create (cmdCreateFile), read (cmdRead), append (cmdAppend), and delete (cmdDelete).

DevX

Avoid Hungarian Notation in Public Interfaces

Most coding standards recommend the use of Hungarian variable naming, which uses prefixes to indicate the variable’s type. However, these naming conventions usually should not be used in a component’s

DevX

Getting MAPI entryID’s From Outlook Folders

This tip is useful if you do Outlook automation with user created Outlook folders. These folders cannot be accessed by the GetDefaultFolder method usually employed in automation techniques. This snippet