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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).

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SelectItemFromText – Select the ListControl element with a given text

‘ Select the ListControl element with a given text’ Example: SelectItemFromText(ListBox1, “hello”)Sub SelectItemFromText(ByVal lst As ListControl, ByVal value As String) lst.SelectedIndex = lst.Items.IndexOf(lst.Items.FindByText(value))End Sub Related Posts T-SQL FORCEPLANWhat Is Website

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EvalFileName – Ensure that the basename of a file or directory is valid

‘ EvalFileName ensures that the basename of a file or directory’ conforms to the Microsoft file naming guidelines (see MSDN webpage)’ http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/’ naming_a_file.asp” Return value:’ True = Valid basename’ False

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Using the CreateDirectory API function

The VB’s MkDir function creates a directory in a specified path. If the directory already exists, MkDir raises error 75 (Path/file access error); yet, it raises the same error code

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SelectItemFromValue – Select the ListControl element with a given value

‘ Select the ListControl element with a given value’ Example: SelectItemFromValue(ListBox1, “hellovalue”)Sub SelectItemFromValue(ByVal lst As ListControl, ByVal value As String) lst.SelectedIndex = lst.Items.IndexOf(lst.Items.FindByValue(value))End Sub Related Posts Understanding Memory Availability and

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Build a Lightweight XML DOM Parser with C#

When you don’t need the full capabilities of an XmlDocument object, you can use an XmlTextReader, the SimpleElement class explained by Guang Yang, and a Stack to create the lightweight

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Build Your Own Lightweight XML DOM Parser

Editor’s Note: This tutorial is also available in a version for Java developers. Get the Java version. ML is rapidly gaining popularity with application developers as a data storage and

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SAP iViews: Portal Components in Java

he Enterprise Portal (EP) is SAP’s corporate portal application that runs primarily on its own J2EE-certified Web application server. Java iViews, the portal components (or portlets) in SAP, deliver business

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Writing Data Safely with the CKPTFile Class

sing memory-mapped files can get you tremendous performance gains, but memory-mapped files are very delicate: any change is immediately reflected in the filesystem. This article describes a checkpointing system that

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Mock Pugilists Raise Fists Over Pet Shop

s is often the case in title fights, it didn’t really get interesting until the last round. On an otherwise uninspiring Monday night, in the grand ballroom of a Redwood

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Generate and Modify Images with GDI+

ost Windows applications need to use graphics or images to let users work with the images directly, or to enhance the user experience. Most applications can accomplish this with static

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Automatically Upgrade Your .NET Applications On-the-Fly

ich client, (or in .NET terminology, “Windows Forms”) applications provide a great user experience in terms of functionality, usability, operating system and inter-application integration. Unfortunately, they have also suffered from

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TurboVB Lite

TurboVBLite is the freeware version of TurboVB. It provides eighteen add-ins that make VB development easier and faster. It helps sorting and writing procedures and properties, error handlers, variable declarations,

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List of Most Commonly Used CGI Equivalents of Servlets

AUTH_TYPE request.getAuthType()CONTENT_LENGTH request.getContentLength()CONTENT_TYPE request.getContentType()DOCUMENT_ROOT getServletContext().getRealPath()PATH_INFO request.getPathInfo()PATH_TRANSLATED request.getPathTranslated()QUERY_STRING request.getQueryString()REMOTE_ADDR request.getRemoteAddr()REMOTE_HOST request.getRemoteHost()REMOTE_USER request.getRemoteUser()REQUEST_METHOD request.getMethod()SCRIPT_NAME request.getServletPath()SERVER_NAME request.getServerName()SERVER_PORT request.getServerPort()SERVER_PROTOCOL request.getProtocol()SERVER_SOFTWARE getServletContext().getServerInfo() HTTP_XXX_YYY Variables of the form HTTP_HEADER_NAME can be accessed using the request.getHeader(Header-Name) Example:

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A Quick Way to Convert RecordSet to an HTML Table

Public Function GetHtmlString(rs)Dim StrHtmlDim FldLimiter,RowLimiterFldLimiter=””RowLimiter=””If Not rs.EOF ThenStrHtml=”” ‘Table Tag’Prefix for 1 col valueStrHtml=StrHtml & “”StrHtml=StrHtml & rs.GetString(2,-1,FldLimiter,RowLimiter)’Trim of the Last StrHtml=Left(StrHtml,Len(StrHtml)-Len(“”))’Close TableStrHtml=StrHtml & “”End IfEnd Function Usage: Response.Write(GetHtmlString(rs)) Related

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Determine the Identity Value of Inserted Row(s)

IN tblTicker table we have following fields: [CompanyID] INT IDENTITY (1,1) [TickerSymbol] [char] (10) NULL [ClassOfShare] [char] (10) NULL We inserted some rows and deleted some from table tblTicker.Now At

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Delete the Contents of a List

This technique allows you to delete the contents of a List at the same time you are storing pointers a list. This same approach can be used for maps or