February 14, 2002

Sometimes you might need to determine the full path name to a Windows executable file associated with a given file extension. The usual recourse is to use the FindExecutable API.

When generating a data report based on an ADO recordset linked to a remote database (such as Oracle or SQL Server), you can end up with a blank report. Try

While designing multilingual applications, I had to make them respond when a user changes the Windows locale setting

The MDI look seems to have gone out of favor recently, judging from the popularity of the Explorer and Outlook styles in modern apps. Maybe that

If you

This easy routine copies the contents of a listview, including column headers, to the clipboard for pasting into Excel or other applications: Public Sub SendToClipboard(ByVal ListViewObj _As MSComctlLib.ListView)Dim ListItemObj As

Have you ever wanted to have a hard copy listing all the VB error messages? Create a new standard EXE VB application and drop this code into the Load event