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You can use the Wingdings font to put simple graphics on a standard command button. Put a standard command button on a form, and in the Properties window, change the

“Hide” an MDI child form with a non-sizable border style (0 or 1) using this code in the MDI child’s Form_Load event: form1.Move form1.Left, form1.Top, 0, 0 Use a label

The API functions “_hwrite” and “_hread” can be useful for writing arrays directly to files and, at some later time, reading these files directly into arrays having the same structure.

Columns in a DBGrid control are bound to database fields. However, the index number of a column doesn’t tell you which field it represents. Therefore, referring to DBGrid1.Columns(0).Value is not

The tip “Remember SWAP?” [“101 Hot Tech Tips for VB Developers,” Supplement to the August 1996 issue of VBPJ, page 13] has a common error. This line actually creates three

When using the line-continuation character facility-the combination of a space followed by an underscore (_) used in the development environment to extend a single logical line of code to two

Omitting the counter from a Next statement does not speed up a For loop. Calling a procedure in a BAS module is not slower than calling a procedure contained in

When you’re dynamically adding ColumnHeaders to a ListView control at run time, you may not know how long the text for the header will be, so the user must readjust

In VB5, the event is not called when an instance of your UserControl is copied into the clipboard andpasted again, creating a new one. This affects user controls that depend