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Use Assertions For Detecting Errors

The assert macro can be used to detect errors as soon as they occur. This macro is defined in the include file , and is used that way: assert (expression)

A Smart Way to Determine Whether a Year is a Leap Year

Use the following code: Public Function IsLeapYear(iYearToCheck As Integer) As BooleanIsLeapYear=IsDate(Format( Related Posts Schools across Lancashire hit by ransomwareAI: a double-edged sword in cybersecuritySurvey: Developer Adoption of Windows 10 Climbs

The EBCalendar User Control

This User Control is designed to fit the needs of the coder who needs a date entry field without the overhead of having to ship (and install) the Microsoft Windows

Unload a form with shrinking effect

A simple way to add some pizazz to your forms is by minimizing them and then closing them, instead of making them disapper istantaneously. Just try this code: Private Sub

Get a reference to a form given its name

In some cases you might want to activate a form given its name, but VB doesn’t let you do it directly. However, it is easy to create a function that

Cut, copy, and paste using API functions

Copying and pasting text and images programmatically isn’t difficult at all, using the methods of the Clipboard object. However, implementing a generic Edit menu that copies and pastes the highlighted

The VB2TheMax Team at VBITS Stockholm!

This was my first time in Stockholm, and was literally fascinated by this Northern capital, by its old town, with its narrow streets crowded with people (and tourists) and its

InstallPrinter – Install a new printer on the system

Private Type PRINTER_INFO_2 pServerName As String pPrinterName As String pShareName As String pPortName As String pDriverName As String pComment As String pLocation As String pDevMode As Long pSepFile As String

SetFolderIcon – Associate an icon to a folder

Private Declare Function SetFileAttributes Lib “kernel32” Alias _ “SetFileAttributesA” (ByVal lpFileName As String, ByVal dwFileAttributes As _ Long) As Long’ Associate an icon to a folder, by creating a desktop.ini

SaveRegToFile – Save a registry subkey to a .reg file

Private Const HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT = &H80000000Private Const HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG = &H80000005Private Const HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001Private Const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002Private Const HKEY_USERS = &H80000003’Save the specified registry’s key and (optionally) its subkeys to

Obtain The Date Portion of a SQL Datetime Field

Use this code: CONVERT(datetime, FLOOR(CONVERT(float, ))) Related Posts Should You Put Much Stock in App Reviews?Tip: Enable SQL Server to Run Stored Procedures at StartupOncoNPC: AI Cancer Detector?Musk’s xAI raises

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PostThreadMessage is a Win32 API used to post messages to threads. Usually, the message posted is a standard windows message with the window handle set to NULL.When PostThreadMessage is used

Encapsulate Your Main Body in a Main Subroutine

Global variables can lead to problems that are difficult to debug. It is very easy, for instance, to accidentally access a global variable from a function when you think you

Converting Fixed-Width Text Records to XML

We’re not so far removed from the databases of old. Most databases still have a specified length applied to field entries, although the exact relationship between that length and the

WindowsBuildNumber – Get operating system build number

Private Type OSVERSIONINFO dwOSVersionInfoSize As Long dwMajorVersion As Long dwMinorVersion As Long dwBuildNumber As Long dwPlatformId As Long szCSDVersion As String * 128End TypePrivate Declare Function GetVersionEx Lib “kernel32” Alias

Why You Shouldn

There are fundamental incompatibilities between the ways AWT and Swing draw themselves. Swing classes are pure Java classes that look the same on all operating systems. AWT Java classes are

Debugging the OCX, DLL, or EXE

The same code can be used for debugging either in development or in production environments. To do so include the following subroutine in the module: Private Sub ShowMessage(msg As String)