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Use the Same Name for Your Error Handlers

Older versions of VB required a unique name for your error-handler labels in order to use On Error GoTo . You had to concatenate the module name and routine name

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Find Your Constant or Enum Values

I use constants for things like control-array index numbers, but it’s a hassle to keep scrolling to the top of the module to remember the constant names. If you name

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Get Your Graphics Here

If you extend a few AWT classes, you will eventually want to add images to enhance their appearance. Icons for buttons and your own logo in the corner of frames

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Create a DHTML Combo Box

In Visual Basic, the standard combo box lets you store an Index to its data. For instance, a user would see in the list an employee name but not an

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DDE and HTML

Question: How can I get data from a Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) server and display it in a Web page? On a Visual Basic form, I can use a text

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Challenge With JavaScript and Frames

Question: I would like to put my entire alternative no frames content in the NOFRAMES element instead of just a link to it. The advantage to this would be a

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Netscape DIV Tags

Question: How do I make the contents of one DIV (divA) equal to the contents of another DIV (divB) in Netscape? I know that in Microsoft Internet Explorer the code