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Delete a User in NT

Question: How do I delete a user in NT with the API’s? Answer: The code below shows how to delete a user (if the server name is blank, it attempts

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Setting the off-line mode

You can programmatically set the Internet Explorer off-line mode with the InternetSetOption API, as this code snippet demonstrates: Const INTERNET_OPTION_CONNECTED_STATE = 50Const INTERNET_STATE_CONNECTED = 1Const INTERNET_STATE_DISCONNECTED = 2Const INTERNET_STATE_DISCONNECTED_BY_USER =

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Check whether the user is working off-line

Internet Explorer offers the possibility to simulate an Internet connection with the off-line mode. If you want to know if off-line mode is on or off you can use InternetQueryOption

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An enhanced VB DatePart function

Here is an enhanced version of VB DatePart function: the first parameter is now an enumerated type, so easier to use. DatePartEx is 4-5 times faster than DatePart and supports

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The CopyProc Add-in

This add-in breaks up the selected VB component’s code and prepares a list of all the procedures(Subroutines, Functions, Property Procedures and the Declaration section). You can select the methods and

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GetNumLockKey – Get the state of the NumLock key

Private Declare Function GetKeyState Lib “user32” (ByVal nVirtKey As Long) As _ Long’ Get the current state of the NumLock keyFunction GetNumLockKey() As Boolean GetNumLockKey = GetKeyState(vbKeyNumlock)End Function Related Posts

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SetScrollLockKey – Set the state of the ScrollLock key

Private Declare Sub keybd_event Lib “user32” (ByVal bVk As Byte, _ ByVal bScan As Byte, ByVal dwFlags As Long, ByVal dwExtraInfo As Long)Private Declare Function GetKeyState Lib “user32” (ByVal nVirtKey

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PressVirtKey – Press and/or release any key

Private Declare Sub keybd_event Lib “user32” (ByVal bVk As Byte, _ ByVal bScan As Byte, ByVal dwFlags As Long, ByVal dwExtraInfo As Long)Private Declare Function GetKeyState Lib “user32” (ByVal nVirtKey

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SetNumLockKey – Set the state of the Num Lock key

Private Declare Sub keybd_event Lib “user32” (ByVal bVk As Byte, _ ByVal bScan As Byte, ByVal dwFlags As Long, ByVal dwExtraInfo As Long)Private Declare Function GetKeyState Lib “user32” (ByVal nVirtKey

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SetCapsLockKey – Set the state of the Caps Lock key

Private Declare Sub keybd_event Lib “user32” (ByVal bVk As Byte, _ ByVal bScan As Byte, ByVal dwFlags As Long, ByVal dwExtraInfo As Long)Private Declare Function GetKeyState Lib “user32” (ByVal nVirtKey

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GetInsertKey – Get the current state of the Insert key

Private Declare Function GetKeyState Lib “user32” (ByVal nVirtKey As Long) As _ Long’ Get the current state of the Insert keyFunction GetInsertKey() As Boolean GetInsertKey = GetKeyState(vbKeyInsert)End Function Related Posts

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GetScrollLockKey – Get the state of the Scroll Lock key

Private Declare Function GetKeyState Lib “user32” (ByVal nVirtKey As Long) As _ Long’ Get the current state of the ScrollLock keyFunction GetScrollLockKey() As Boolean GetScrollLockKey = GetKeyState(vbKeyScrollLock)End Function Related Posts

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GetCapsLockKey – Get the state of the CapsLock key

Private Declare Function GetKeyState Lib “user32” (ByVal nVirtKey As Long) As _ Long’ Get the current state of the CapsLock keyFunction GetCapsLockKey() As Boolean GetCapsLockKey = GetKeyState(vbKeyCapital)End Function Related Posts

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Auto Select Content Component

We almost always need to develop forms in which the contents to the control have to be selected whenever the user tabs to a textbox or a combobox. For this

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Use SourceSafe Shadow File Option

Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS) doesn’t store its data in a format you readily can use, and MSwouldn’t put the “Analyze and Fix” option on your menu if it wasn’t needed.To

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Using Distributed Queries on SQL Server 7.0

SQL Sever 7.0 allows developers to execute commands against OLE DB data sources on different servers. In order to execute commands on remote servers, the SQL Server instance where the

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Assigning Integers to enum Variables

C and C++ differ in their handling of enum types. While C allows you to assign a plain int to an enum variable, C++ doesn’t. Therefore, a C compiler will

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Unbuffered Streams

The standard stream object cerr and its matching wide-character version, wcerr, are unbuffered. This means that they are automatically flushed after each operation; they do not buffer data. This feature

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The pow() Function

The Standard Library provides the pow() functions (declared in ) which takes two arguments of type double, x and y: double powl(double x, double y);pow() returns the value calculated of

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Rules of Thumb for Software Internationalization

Internationalized software must enable easy porting to other locales. A locale defines language and specific cultural conventions. The process of adjusting internationalized software to a particular locale is called localization

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VB and WinSock

Question: Winsock with VB works fine if I specify a port (e.g., 1001). However when I set the Winsock’s port (local and remote) properties to 0 so that they would

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DBACCESS Syntax

Question: When accessing dbaccess through a script (in UNIX), what is the importance of the hyphen after the database name? For example: dbaccess mystores-

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Error in Timed Job

Question: I am getting an error (“Could not do a physical-order read to fetch next row” #244) while executing a job that runs a set of SQL statements every 30

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Win 95/NT Login To Informix

Question: I cannot get 6 of 60 units to log in to an Informix application server. The units are all identical and they can ping the server. I get the

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.PAB’s in Outlook

Question: Can I enable an Outlook profile to access two .PAB’s (the same way it can access two PST’s)? Answer: No, I’m afraid not. However, you could import one of

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Select Statement to Combine Two Tables

Question: How do I use a SQL select statement to combine two tables that are identical in structure but contain different data? Answer: The union statement allows you to combine

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Shared Memory Error

Question: My Informix usually server starts fine, but when I try to add a database chunk with the onspaces command I get an error (“shared memory not initialized”). Any ideas?