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Sometimes you might want an MDI form without any captions or buttons, such as in a game or acting as a background parent object. You can create a captionless MDI
Enumerated constants are great, but they have a quirk that
When you need to determine the last occurrence of a character within a larger string, you typically use a Mid$ or Instr in a loop. VB6
Creating a new project in VB6 (and earlier versions) has always been a pain when you have a large library of modules to add in. You can do it a
Win32 file images can contain a file version resource that stores product and version information about the file. The version num-ber is actually four 16-bit values typically displayed using dot
n the last several years, I have built and expanded my career based on my knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server. I’ve used the product as both a database developer and
ogging in and querying an Oracle database can be a daunting task for anyone used to SQL Server. Instead of the familiar Query Analyzer tool (see Figure 1), which provides
atabase programs, with few exceptions, need to utilize both the computer’s memory and permanent storage space such as the hard drive to operate. The drives provide both long-term storage and
oth Oracle9i and SQL Server 2000 support the use of the database as more than a simple data store for your information. They enable you to use the database to
This add-in adds a tool-window to your VB IDE. Initially, mousecam will be off. Start it with the on/off button. The initial snapshot interval is 100 ms. You can change
‘ Converts a time value to a numeric value in seconds’ Example:’ MsgBox TimeToSeconds(TimeSerial(3, 5, 20)) –> 11120Function TimeToSeconds(ByVal newTime As Date) As Long TimeToSeconds = Hour(newTime) * 3600 +
Enum DateTimeFormat dtGeneralDate dtLongDate dtMediumDate dtShortDate dtLongTime dtMediumTime dtShortTime dtCustomEnd Enum’ Enhanced VB FormatDateTime functionFunction FormatDateTimeEx(newDate, Optional ByVal dtFormat As DateTimeFormat = _ dtGeneralDate, Optional FirstDayOfWeek As VbDayOfWeek = vbSunday,
‘ Converts a numeric value in seconds to a string’ Example:’ MsgBox SecondsToString(3920) –> 1h.5m.20sFunction SecondsToString(ByVal Seconds As Long) As String SecondsToString = (Seconds 3600) & “h.” & ((Seconds 60)
‘ Converts a time value to a numeric value in minutes’ Example:’ MsgBox TimeToMinutes(TimeSerial(3, 5, 0)) –> 185Function TimeToMinutes(ByVal newTime As Date) As Long TimeToMinutes = Hour(newTime) * 60 +
‘ Converts a numeric value in seconds to a time value’ Example:’ MsgBox SecondsToTime(11120) –> 3.5.20 AMFunction SecondsToTime(ByVal Seconds As Long) As Date SecondsToTime = CDate(Seconds / 86400) End Function
Private Declare Function GetSystemPowerStatus Lib “kernel32” _ (lpSystemPowerStatus As SYSTEM_POWER_STATUS) As LongPrivate Type SYSTEM_POWER_STATUS ACLineStatus As Byte BatteryFlag As Byte BatteryLifePercent As Byte Reserved1 As Byte BatteryLifeTime As Long BatteryFullLifeTime
The RegExp object in the Microsoft VBScript Regular Expression type library supports regular expression patterns containing the | (or) operator, which lets you search for multiple substrings at the same
Most of you might have worked withInternet Transfer Control which is very handy control when it comes to InternetProgramming but there is another control which even more robust and helpsprogrammers
‘ Set the IE start page’ Note: requires the SetRegistryValue, CheckRegistryKey and CreateRegistryKey ‘ routines, you can find them in the CodeBank’ Example:’ SetIEStartPage “http://www.vb2themax.com”Public Sub SetIEStartPage(ByVal sPage As String)
‘ Applies URL encoding rules to the specified Text and returns the result’ (similar to Server.URLEncode)Public Function URLEncodeEx(ByVal Text As String) As String Dim abytTokens() As Byte Dim lngTotal As
‘ Decodes URL encoding applied to the specified Text and returns the resultPublic Function URLDecodeEx(ByVal Text As String) As String Dim abytTokens() As Byte Dim lngTotal As Long Dim lngCount
‘ Applies HTML encoding rules to the specified Text and returns the result” Optionally specify if we’re encoding a HREF link and the character’ to use for encoding – the
‘ Get the IE start page’ Note: requires the GetRegistryValue routine, you can find it in the CodeBank’ Example:’ MsgBox GetIEStartPagePublic Function GetIEStartPage() As String Const HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001 GetIEStartPage
‘ Decodes HTML encoding applied to the specified Text and returns the result’ Optionally specify if we encoded a HREF link and the character’ used for encoding – the default
In many cases you may need the canonical (or absolute) name of a file, for example when you need to compare two relative file names (relative to the current directory
ugust 8, 2001?If one envisions Sun Microsystems and Microsoft as, oh, I don’t know, peevish comic book villains, each sticking dogmatically by their own proprietary weaponry in the fight for
Servlets often need to display a lot of HTML. One way to do this is with println() commands and String concatenation. However, String concatenation is an expensive process. It is
There are times when almost every programmer comes up with a class that consists only of public static methods. Usually these are some kind of utility classes, which do not
There is a constructor in the java.io.FileOutputStream class which can be used to append data to an existing file. Usage:public FileOutputStream(String name, boolean append) throwsFileNotFoundExceptionwhere:name – the file nameappend –
To access a file that is kept in the same directory as the servlet, you can do either of the following things:1. Hard-coding the file path: FileReader fr = new











