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EmptyRecycleBin – Delete all files in the Recycle Bin

Private Declare Function SHEmptyRecycleBin Lib “shell32.dll” Alias _ “SHEmptyRecycleBinA” (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal pszRootPath As String, _ ByVal dwFlags As Long) As LongConst SHERB_NOCONFIRMATION = &H1Const SHERB_NOPROGRESSUI = &H2Const

Managing Inactivity Timeouts

ne way to implement an inactivity timeout in an application is to keep track of the last time a MouseEvent or KeyEvent was sent to an application. In a separate

Display Selective Data From a Database

n last month’s 10-Minute Solution, you learned how to display data from a database. This time, you’ll see how to use this technique to pick and choose what to display

Convert a Text File to XML

ere’s an interesting conundrum. You have an application that doesn’t have an object model (or has one that’s so hideously complex that you’d just as soon not pay a programmer

Outlook View Control

he Outlook View control released by Microsoft allows you to display an Outlook folder in your application. The folder displayed in the control is fully functional; you can create, open,

Lazy Versus Eager Instantiation

There are techniques for creation of objects (read allocation of memory)widely known as lazy Instantiation and Eager Instantiation.Lazy instantiation is a memory conservation technique, by which, a programdelays the creation

Get all your Threads and Thread Groups

It might be useful to garner an enumeration of all thread groups and theirthreads in your running application. The following method shows you how todo that: public void printOutThreadGroups(){ //create

MTSTransactionMode in Visual Basic 6.0

Each MTS component can contain one or more classes which, in MTS terms, are referred to as MTS Objects. Visual Basic 6.0 provides a new property called MTSTransactionMode that can

Locate the Temp Folder

In your apps, do the right thing: Use the computer’s Temp folder to hold your temporary files. To find that location, paste this code into the Declarations section of a

Ask the Form Itself Whether it’s Loaded

Occasionally you initialize a form but don’t load it. You might do this to read in initial application Registry values. After that, any references to control properties on the form

Catalog Your Graphics

I needed a printed catalog of GIF images in a directory. So I wrote a routine that creates a new document, and inserts an image for each GIF file in

Perform Faster String Manipulations

Are you dealing with strings you have to parse if you want to drop one special character or change it into another? Keep this trick in mind. Even though this

Make Sure Msgbox is on Top

When you implement the Always on Top feature with VB forms using SetWindowPos and HWND_TOPMOST, message boxes are shown below the topmost form. To overcome this, you can use the

Prompt for Password in a Separate Dialog

Question: I want to display the “Enter Network Password” box when a user accesses my site. I can display an ActiveX control on my HTML page (ObjectID Tag) but it

Strip Leading Zeros in ASP Output

Question: How do I strip off leading zeros from data displayed from an ASP page? Answer: Use the FormatNumber function.If value = “0000046” Then FormatNumber(value,0) will result in 46. FormatNumber(value,2)

Retrieve Table Names From an Access Database

Question: How do I retrieve all the table names from an Access database using ASP? Answer: Make sure you have an ODBC DSN to point to your database. Then use

Access Client’s Windows Date Format

Question: I have a date field on my ASP page. I want to restrict the user for entering only the dates in his Windows 95 machine’s date format. How can

Bypass the ‘RePost’ Message

Question: When I create an ASP page that gets sent to the browser, if users press the refresh button they get a message asking to repost from old data. How

Display a ‘Loading…’ Message in ASP

Question: How can I show a ‘Loading…’ message till my ASP page loads? Answer: Use the following code to create a “pgLoading.asp” page. Pass to it as a parameter the

Display Currency Fields in ASP

Question: I am querying an Oracle field that comes back in the format of 25.5. Because this is a currency field, I’d like to manipulate it so that it shows

Session Abandon Does Not Stop Back Button

Question: I have a session variable that keeps track of a user name and is set through a login page. Every page in the application first checks for the session

Create a Directory From an ASP Page

Question: How do I create a directory in ASP? Answer: Use the ‘CreateFolder’ method of the FileSystemObject object. Set fs = Server.CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”)fs.CreateFolder (“foldername”) Obviously, you need to have proper permissions

Using ASP as Opposed to HTML Files

Question: I have been testing the delivery of ASP pages versus HTML pages and found that there is a considerable difference (ASP = 1 per sec / HTML = 187

Generate Numbers at the Server End

Question: How do I generate numbers at the server end? I have an application in which I am accessing data from an Access database and I want to define each