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Make One Form Parent of Another

Prior to VB5, when you wanted to make a form appear on top of another form, you either made it modal or used an MDIForm with children. If you wanted

Avoid Binary Compatibility Problems

To prevent losing the ability to maintain binary compatibility with compiled object code, take the first compiled build and move it into a separate directory, then tell VB to maintain

Tell Me It’s True

The typical method of validating multiple expressions is to string together a series of If statements separated with an equal number of And statements. Shorten that process by passing one

Namespace Members Have Static Storage

Variables and objects defined within a namespace have static storage type. As such, namespace members are by default initialized to binary zeros before program’s outset. Likewise, namespace members are destroyed

Displaying User Confirmation Dialogs

In JavaScript, it is easy to ask the user to confirm an action by using JavaScript Confirm () function. Say you have a function NavigateToWebAddress() (which needs confirmation from the