If you have to reference a control’s property repeatedly, it’s better to assign the property to a temporary variable, then use that variable. This technique is called property caching. For
If you have a 32-bit color value in RGB format, you can extract its Red, Green and Blue components using the following routines: Function GetRed(ByVal lColor As Long) As Long
When ADO encounters an error, the Errors Collectionis filled with certain specific details on the causeof the error. You can check the Errors collection ofthe Connection object whenever you encounter
Are you dealing with strings you have to parse if you want to drop one special character or change it into another? Keep this trick in mind. Even though this
In order to run this tech tip you need following things:(a) VB5 or VB6(b) Reference to Type Lib information object component (TLIBINF32.dll). This function takes in the name of the
I recently needed to create two listboxes, where the items displayed in the second listbox depend upon the item selected in the first listbox. After seeing the amount of code
Many times developers use a form’s default font arrow characters for To and From buttons between listboxes. To give your app a nicer, more solid look, do what Microsoft does-use
Private Declare Sub CopyMemory Lib “kernel32” Alias “RtlMoveMemory” (dest As _ Any, source As Any, ByVal bytes As Long)’ Return the high word of a Long value.Function HiWord(ByVal value As