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FormatDateTimeEx – Extended formatting for date and time values

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,

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GetBatteryTime – Get the life time of a notebook’s battery

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

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Search multiple substrings with the RegExp object

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

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Winsock Programming

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

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SetIEStartPage – Change IE start page

‘ 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)

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URLEncodeEx – Apply URL encoding rules

‘ 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

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URLDecodeEx – Decodes an encoded URL

‘ 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

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GetIEStartPage – Read IE start page

‘ 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

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HTMLDecodeEx – Decodes HTML encoded strings

‘ 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

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Get the canonical name of a file

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

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Borland Eyeing the Chasm Between Java and .NET

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

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Use StringBuffer for Speedy Servlet Output

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

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Avoid Instantiability of Utility Classes

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

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Appending Data to an Existing File

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 –

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How to Make a Swing Component Appear and Disappear

Here’s a very short bit of code that will make a StatusBar hide or show, accordingly: public void viewStatusBar() { /* Hide or show the statusbar */ StatusBarPane().setVisible(!(StatusBarPane().isVisible()));} Just have

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Encapsulate Member Objects

Objects frequently contain member objects that need to be exposed.Often, these are not correctly encapsulated, which could lead to problems that are difficult to track down.Consider a Circus object, which

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Communicating With XML Files

Start a new VB project. Add a form (or use the default one). Then, add these four buttons on the form: create (cmdCreateFile), read (cmdRead), append (cmdAppend), and delete (cmdDelete).

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Avoid Hungarian Notation in Public Interfaces

Most coding standards recommend the use of Hungarian variable naming, which uses prefixes to indicate the variable’s type. However, these naming conventions usually should not be used in a component’s

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Getting MAPI entryID’s From Outlook Folders

This tip is useful if you do Outlook automation with user created Outlook folders. These folders cannot be accessed by the GetDefaultFolder method usually employed in automation techniques. This snippet

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HTML Doc Add-in

This handy add-in creates code headers in VB source and HTML documentation for VB projects. When you run HTML Doc the first time, it will create all these headers with

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Create Your Own VB Add-Ins

Why should you createAdd-Ins? We programmers always feel that we are short of several features whileworking with Microsoft tools, it seems that Microsoft hasn’t yet developed thetool we needed. In