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When you load or show a form, errors don

If you use collections in your apps, you

Only in VB6 do the common controls OCX files provide an option to select a full line in a listview. In earlier versions, you can select a ListItem only by

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If you use dates in your program frequently and you want them to be in a particular format, you don

After trapping an error in debug mode with the usual “On Error Goto ErrorHandlingCode”, you might be frustrated that you can

With VB6 came the ability to return arrays from functions. Returning an uninitialized array is a problem because there is no easy way?other than error-trapping?to find whether an array has

A few ActiveX controls, such as the Common Dialog Control, don

If you ever wondered how some DOS applications, such as Norton Utilities, calculate the estimated finishing time for a long process, here