If your forms contain Label controls used to display data from a database, set their UseMnemonic property to False. In fact, if you leave this property to its default value
‘ Return True if a file existsFunction FileExists(FileName As String) As Boolean On Error GoTo ErrorHandler ‘ get the attributes and ensure that it isn’t a directory FileExists = (GetAttr(FileName)
It seems that the only way to count the number of 1’s or 0’s in a binary value is creating a loop that iterates on all the 16 or 32
Under some circumstances, an ActiveX DLL can pass private objects to its client application, for example a reference to a control that belongs to a form in the DLL. While
When using the ParamArray keyword within a procedure, always remember that when the procedure is invoked from elsewhere in the program one of the argument might be omitted, and you
Private Declare Function ImageList_ReplaceIcon Lib “COMCTL32” (ByVal hImageList _ As Long, ByVal i As Long, ByVal hIcon As Long) As Long’ Load a set of images from a disk file
When working on an updated version of a COM component, you should always enforce Binary Compatibility in the Component tab of the Project Properties dialog box. When enforcing binary compatibility
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