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Programmatically Close The Binder Object

Because of customer complaints and confusion, Microsoft Office applicationswill begin to implement this strategy for programmatically closing Officeapplications. First, hide the object by setting Object.Visible to false.Then let the object

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Error When Setting DBCombo MatchEntry Property

When you try to set the MatchEntry property of a DBCombo control to”1 – Extended Matching”(at run time or design time), VB may reportthat the “Property is read-only.” The problem

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Change Your Editor Font

VB 4.0 lets you pick the font you want for your editor. You can do thesame thing in VB 3.0 as well, but you’re font choices are limited, andit’ll involve

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Compile On Demand

The new version of Visual Basic will compile only those portions ofcode it expects to run. This speeds load time, but the code may not befully checked. To fully compile

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Display The Windows Registered User

The strings related to the registered user of a particular copy of Windowsare stored in a string inside USER.EXE. You can retrieve them with code.In the general declarations section, insert:

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VB3 Keyboard Shorcuts

Take a few moments to memorize these keystroke combinations and you’llfind yourself rocketing through your project! Key combinations separatedby commas mean they’re to be performed sequentially. VB 3.0 Keyboard Shortcuts

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Early Binding With Microsoft Excel

Early binding can be done with Excel 5.0 and 7.0 by taking advantageof two bugs in Excel. The first bug cannot do direct early binding. Thesecond bug is an unexposed

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Printing From The RichText Control

The on-line documentation on using the RichText control to print tellshow it is supposed to work. It does not mention two basic problems. First,the RichText control doesn’t work with the

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Binding With Microsoft Word Type Library

The benefit of early binding is that performance improves and code doesnot need to be localized for each international version of Word. This istrue only for the function that is