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October 13, 2001

Determine memory usage

The GlobalMemoryStatus API function returns detailed information about the current load on the physical and virtual memory. You can use the following code to display the current amount of free

Sorting on multiple keys

Frequently you need to sort arrays of records using multiple keys. This may be required since one single key does not uniquely identify a record (e.g. you may need both

Check for a valid URL

Before posting an Internet request you should check that the user has entered a valid Internet address. You can do this with a parsing routine, or use the following routine

Determine whether a control has a scrollbar

There is no built-in VB function that lets you know whether a control – such as a ListBox – is currently displaying a vertical scrollbar. Here’s a pair of functions

Get the exit code of a process

In a few cases, in particular when running MsDos batch files from within a VB application, you may want to determine the ERRORLEVEL set by an external application. You can’t