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December 2, 2002

Get Mouse Position Anywhere, Anytime

Some control events provide the mouse pointer’s current position within the control’s client area; others provide only the screen coordinates of the mouse pointer (the same as returned by Cursor.Position).

Checking (from a VB6 program) whether the .NET Framework is present

‘ Return a Boolean value indicating whether the .NET Framework is installed’ Note: this function require the CheckRegistryKey functionsFunction IsDotNetFrameworkPresent() As Boolean Const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002 IsDotNetFrameworkPresent = CheckRegistryKey(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, _

COM+, ErrObject, and Co.

am sure you have already found out why you should be wary of static, application-global and module-global variables in COM+ components written in VB. As for me, one wonderful day