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A Quick Way to Register and Unregister DLLs

It’s really a pain to continually register, unregister, and reregister a DLL (or worse, many DLLs) using REGSVR32. Importing the following into your registry, allows you to set up options

Calling a Servlet From a JSP and Vice-Versa

Servlets and JSPs are the defacto method of server side computing today. Servlets form the logic of the application code and formatting for output is done with the help of

Spell Check VB Code Add-in

This addin is designed to check the spelling of your VB comments and/or double-quoted string literals inside your VB6 IDE using a procedure similar to MS-Word without checking the rest

KeysPressed – Test the status of up to three keys

Private Declare Function GetAsyncKeyState Lib “user32″ (ByVal vKey As Long) As _ Integer’ Return True if all the specified keys are pressed” you can specify individual keys using VB constants,

PerformanceTimer – A class module for high-resolution time measurement

‘——————————————-‘ PerformanceTimer class module’——————————————-‘ Use this class to profile your code and any other operation’ typically with a precision greater than 1 millionth of a second” As soon as you

Another Way of Handling Null Database Fields

A compact way of handling null database fields is as follows: txtText1.text = Format(rs!Field) If rs!Field is null, Format(rs!Field) will resolve to an empty string.Otherwise the value in the recordset

Handling Dialogs With One Line of Code

Handle dialogs with one line of code by encapsulating the show method within the form in a public function. This makes the form/dialog reusable and simpler to implement and update.

View Recordsets in Temporary Grids

An alternate, convenient way to view recordsets in debug mode is to persist a recordset to disk using rs.save MyFileUNC.ADTG in the immediate window. Note that the file must be

A Powerful and Simple Message Box Statement

This tip can be used as a Select Case statement with a MsgBox statement. Because a variable is not used to hold the response, adding one or more handles for

Adding Popup Menus to Custom Controls

Shipping custom controls with their own set of popup menu items make the controls appear appropriately professional. They add ease of use, functionality and value to the control(s). Here’s how

Adding Items in List Boxes as Tooltips

This piece of code lets you display an item in a list box as that list box’s tooltip. Private Sub lstItems_MouseMove(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y

Correct Authentication Flags in ADSI and VB

If you are unsuccessful at attempting to bind to an object residing in a Netscape Directory Server and you are using ADSI in VB or VBscript, you are likely using

Making a Form Scrollable

This is one of the simplest, but most powerful, ways to make a form scrollable. This method automatically disables or enables scrollbars according to the size of the area in

Cut, Copy, Paste, and Undo For Textboxes

Many programmers use Visual Basic’s Clipboard object to perform Cutting, Copying, Pasting and Undoing code. For example, to copy some text from a textbox, programmers sometimes use the following code:

Using a Boolean Expression to Group Records

Sometimes there is a need to group records into two larger categories, regardless of all other groupings. Using the Northwind database for an example, let

CTreeViewEdit – A class for enhanced treeview node editing

‘——————————————————-‘ The CTREEVIEWEDIT Class module” This class lets you use a regular TextBox control to’ edit a treeview node’s label. All you have to do to’ use this class is

Determine Absolute Row Index

Often, properties and methods associated with grid controls don’t provide an absolute (relative to the actual first row and not the first displayed row) row index of current or selected

The #error Preprocessor Directive

During the preprocessing phase, you can report errors by using the #error preprocessor directive. For example, suppose you have a program that uses 64-bit integers. This program has to be

<iostream.h> or <iostream>?

Although the library was deprecated for several years, many C++ users still use it in new code instead of using the newer, standard compliant library. What are the differences between

Generating Random Float Values

To generate random floating numbers, choose a floating point number, divide it by the largest value of int type and multiply the result by the value of a function that