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Never, never, never assume that a given API call or control/OCXworks the same under Win95 and Windows NT. For example, the 32-bitfile common dialog handles long file names, right? Well,

With the release of VB4 and the new development environment for32-bit operating systems, I use three versions of Visual Basicin developing VB applications. Some of my clients won’t acceptapps built

There is a list of our new functions in Visual Basic 4.0 for workingwith an application’s Windows registry entries (or .INI file on16-bit Windows platforms): GetSetting(appname, section, key[, default]) GetAllSettings(appname,

The problem? You want to print a single sub but VB always prints allthe subs that are in the current form. You could copy it to the clipboardand print it

LenLongestWord finds the length of the longest word in a stringwhere a word is defined to be bounded by spaces or the ends ofthe string. It also illustrates a case

When you get a cool sample of a VB component and you simply can’t recreate all of its characteristics inyour app, don’t go nuts. Most of the time, you can

Many times when I code similar syntax with slight modifications on each line, I like to make a template of thecore syntax, quickly paste a copy of it however many

Note that in writing in VB3.0, Visual Basic’s AppActivate statementfails to make a 32-bit application the active window under Windows NT.For example: Sub Form_Load () AppActivate “Notepad – (Untitled)”End Sub

After a call to a DLL, the return value often contains a null.One way to eliminate the null is to look for Chr$(0), as in theexample: Dim CheckForNull As IntegerCheckForNull