Often, to create status-bar help, you place code in the mouse-moveevent procedures of controls to place text describing the controlon the status bar. Every time you update the text property,
If you need to analyze the performance of a Jet 3.0 query by thequery execution plan, you may do so by adding this registry keyand running regedit: \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARE\_ MicrosoftJet3.0EnginesDebug For
In the “Determine the Class of YourObject with the TypeOfStatement” tip, the Desk and House objects have many propertiesin common. Instead of duplicating code by having a separate Printmethod for
vGive your ListView control in report view the sort functionalityof the Win95 Explorer. This code will allow you to sort by anycolumn. If your list is already sorted by the
Be aware that when using the Path property of the Applicationobject (App.Path), if your EXE is run from the root directoryof a drive, App.Path will return the drive letter and
Sometimes it is desirable to prevent a user from moving a form.A little known feature of Windows is that for any form, functionalitythat doesn’t appear in the control menu (ControlBox
Sometimes a runtime error only manifests itself after an EXE ismade and not in debug mode. This can be hard to track down, evenwith message-box statements. Use the code profiler
This code will prevent a beep when you hit [ENTER] or [TAB] ina text box whose maximum character limit has been reached: Sub Form_KeyPress (keyascii As Integer)’Eliminate beep if {ENTER}