If your program uses the WebBrowser control or any Microsoft Internet Control, you must ensure (and clearly specify in your app’s documentation) that the program can only work on systems
Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib “user32” Alias “SendMessageA” (ByVal _ hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, _ lParam As Any) As LongPrivate Const WM_USER As
If a form contains a RichTextBox control and other controls that are capable to receive the input focus, when the focus is on the RichTextBox and the user presses the
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
‘ Open a single pane Explorer window’ sRoot is the root folder to open’ bUpwardAllowed specifies whether the user will be allowed to navigate ‘ upward the root” Example:’ OpenSinglePaneExplorer
Private Declare Function RegOpenKeyEx Lib “advapi32.dll” Alias “RegOpenKeyExA” _ (ByVal hKey As Long, ByVal lpSubKey As String, ByVal ulOptions As Long, _ ByVal samDesired As Long, phkResult As Long) As
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
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
‘ Load the specified REG file in the registryPrivate Sub ApplyRegFile(ByVal sRegFile As String) On Error Resume Next ‘first of all, check if the file exists If Not (GetAttr(sRegFile) And