You should always modify a vertical scrollbar’s width and a horizontal scrollbar’s height to conform to the display resolution. You can learn the suggested size (in pixels) using the GetSystemMetrics
Const LF_FACESIZE = 32Private Type LOGFONT lfHeight As Long lfWidth As Long lfEscapement As Long lfOrientation As Long lfWeight As Long lfItalic As Byte lfUnderline As Byte lfStrikeOut As Byte
When testing a component in the IDE, always perform a full compilation. This ensures that VB checks the syntax of all the code in the component, which in turn guarantees
‘ Save all the images in an ImageList control to a disk file’ Images can be later loaded in the same ImageList control using the’ LoadImageList routine” Note 1: if
There are a lot of risks involved in using End in VB programs: your databases might not be correctly closed, your objects are not correctly terminated, etc. You should always
‘ returns the last occurrence of a substring’ The syntax is similar to InStrFunction InstrLast(ByVal Start As Long, Source As String, search As String, _ Optional CompareMethod As VbCompareMethod =
‘ Return True if a directory exists’ (the directory name can also include a trailing backslash)Function DirExists(DirName As String) As Boolean On Error GoTo ErrorHandler ‘ test the directory attribute
The call ‘select * from ‘ becomes costly when tables have a lot of fields. Because every data field would be required to be sent across the network (or processed)
Several developers have complained that in order to use Visual Studio 6.0’s online help, they must keep the MSDN Library CD in their CD-ROM drive, or copy all 680 MB