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Display Popup Windows

Here is a simple way to provide popup window functionality in your Webpages. The idea is to display a popup window if the user moves the mouseover certain text areas

Avoid Excessive use of Fully Qualified Names

To some extent, the use of fully qualified names is the recommended way of referring to namespace members because it uniquely identifies and yet it avoids name conflicts. For example:

Translate Color Values Faster

This tip is an update to “Translate Color Values”. That method converted numbers to strings, then performed string manipulation to get individual RGB values. This solution uses a concept near

ADO Data Control

Question: I hope that you might be able to help me with the problem I am experiencing. I am developing an application in VB6 using ADO Data Control. I need

Arctan Function Problems

Question: I have to use the arctan function but there are onlyarcsin and arccos in VB. And arctan is not equal toarcsin/arccos. I have lost almost all of my trigonometry

Loading Dynamic Forms

Question: I have a menu system that loads the name of a form into the appropriate menu item. How would you load the form from that item, considering that when

Adding a New Label at Run Time

Question: I have been unable to add a new label onto my form at run time because the ‘new’ command doesn’t seem to work for a label. What’s the best

Difference Between Subs and Functions

Question: As new to Visual Basic, I am having trouble understanding the difference between Sub a Procedure and a Function Procedure. And I would also like to know where and