Sometimes the provided Swing cursor types just don’t meet the needs of your application. In those cases, you may want to consider creating your own, completely customized cursor. To add

Sometimes you want to make sure that you will have only one object of a specific class in your application. There is a simple technique for doing this. This example

Sometimes come across a situation where you need to swap two variables. Below is the code that will let you swap two pointers. Say that p and q point to

We can execute any member function or any other execution before main() function by using: “#pragma startup”.Syntax: #pragma startup [priority]//without semicolon Example: #includeclass CL{public: //A constructor CL(){ cout ” The

The multiplication operation for integer numbers is implemented in the processor as repeated additions. The number of additions can be reduced by considering the representation in base 2 of the

Binding a DataGrid – or any other data-aware control – to a DataSet or a DataTable at runtime isn’t difficult: you just have to assign the DataTable to the DataGrid’s

As you might have noticed, the Add Reference dialog in Visual Studio displays all the assemblies in the GAC, which brings up the following question: is there a way to

It often happens that you need to swap the operands of an assignment. For example, say that you have this set of assignments: p1.FirstName = m_FirstNamep1.LastName = m_LastName and later

Thanks to Visual Studio.NET macros, it is quite simple to automate the task of transforming a Public field into a Property with the same name that accesses a private field

When you’re working with the Visual Studio .NET code editor, typing a Try keyword plus the Enter key automatically creates the End Try statement. The following simple macro does something

Nothing beats ILDASM when it’s time to understand what your VB.NET or C# compiler actually emits. In this case you should prepare a desktop shortcut to ILDASM so that you

Persisting an array of data in a SQL Server DB is usually considered quite difficult. The common solution is to use a master detail table, but this leads to a

‘ Download the HTML source code at the specified URL’ You can optionally specify the username/password credentials,’ in case the page uses Basic Authentication’ Returns a null string if any

The Process class provides all you need to create a command-line utility that lists all the processes running on the system and all the related information. This utility is therefore

The System.Diagnostics.Process class exposes two methods that let you kill a process: CloseMainWindow should be used with processes that have a graphical interface, whereas the Kill method should be used

You can use the VB.NET Shell command (in the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace) to run an external process and wait for its termination, but you can get better control if you work

Enum FormatMemorySizeUnits BestGuess Bytes Kilobytes Megabytes GigabytesEnd Enum’ convert a number of bytes into Kbytes, Megabytes, or GigabytesFunction FormatMemorySize(ByVal value As Long, _ ByVal unit As FormatMemorySizeUnits, Optional ByVal decimalDigits

Enum FormatColumnAlignment Left Center RightEnd Enum’ format a value in a column of given width and with specified alignment’ using the specified pad character Function FormatValue(ByVal value As String, ByVal

SQL Server experts know that the DB engine never accesses directly the data pages on disk; rather it uses a special module called “Cache Manager”. It is possible, by using

ASP.NET doesn’t provide a built-in method for giving a control the input focus when the page loads. In fact, you can assign the TabIndex properties to controls on a page,

‘ A variant of the Split function, that offers the following improvements’ You can pass text qualifier as the third argument and optionally specify’ to treat consecutive occurrences of delimiters

Thanks to COM Interop, you can still use the Microsoft Script Control from VB.NET and any other .NET language. To do so, you must add a reference to the Microsoft

Unlike previous Visual Basic versions, under VB.NET you can’t use the Len function to calculate the length of a Structure or a class. However, it is easy to get this

The System.Collections.Specialized.BitVector32 structure can be used to store up to 32 boolean values, or a set of small integers that can take up to 32 consecutive bits. The BitVector32 is

.NET Boolean values require 4 bytes each, as opposed to the 2 byte taken under previous VB versions. When creating very large Boolean arrays this extra memory impacts negatively on

If you’re using a COM object through COM Interop you should be aware that the object isn’t released as soon as you set it to Nothing, as it happens with

This function computes the number of elements of any one-dimensional array?it sure beats ripping open the SAFEARRAY array descriptor. Use it when you