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Counting the occurrences of a string can be useful when you
Associate a label that describes what the text box is meant for.For example, a label with the caption ‘Name’ would be a good pair for a text box wherein you
evelopers have been requesting that Microsoft add more threading functionality to VB for some time?it will finally happen with VB.NET. VB6 does have support for building multithreaded EXEs, DLLs, and
QL Server provides many sophisticated functions to calculate dates. But knowing how to use them can often be a challenge. Suppose you want to calculate when a package is due
ecently I encountered a couple of Oracle-tuning projects that required me to evaluate the performance of PL/SQL and SQL code. I had to generate a substantial amount of data from
fficient coding practices are hard to develop and even harder to maintain. Most likely, your coding process suffers from one of two problems: Your code throws an exception or otherwise
onsider the scenario in which you are building a Web application that displays events or appointments for different dates. If you want your users to remember this event within their
ML is becoming increasingly popular in the developer community as a tool for passing, manipulating, storing, and organizing information. If you are one of the many developers planning to use
he XML parser world is a dynamic one. As standards change, the parsers change as well–XML parsers are becoming more sophisticated. For most programming projects, the parser, at minimum, must
Private Declare Function GetSystemMenu Lib “user32” (ByVal hWnd As Long, _ ByVal bRevert As Long) As LongPrivate Declare Function RemoveMenu Lib “user32” (ByVal hMenu As Long, _ ByVal nPosition As
It’s possible to show the list box of a combo box, with focus, using SendKeys “{F4}”. It
Use early binding by declaring variables as the correct object/interface. This will speed up procedure calls. Example: * Create a new Standard EXE Project * Add a list box to
Encapsulating settings and registry calls into property procedures is a good way to ensure valid entries. This method manages errors while including them in IntelliSense. Example: ‘mdlSettings Option Explicit Public
Sending the window message CB_SHOWDROPDOWN to the combo boxl shows the list box of a combo box. Example: * Create a new Standard EXE Project * Add a combo box
n this article, we’re presenting “passthrough,” a powerful technique for e-mail filtering I’ve never seen described by others. I particularly like it because it’s so easy to “retrofit” on existing
ErrReport provides an easy way to add centralized error reporting capabilities to applications written in Visual Basic. ErrReport has the following features: (a) Thorough diagnostic information. In addition to the
‘ convert a VB color code to the ##rrggbb format used in HTML attributesFunction ColorToHTML(ByVal color As Long) As String ‘ HTML color codes are in the format #RRGGBB (red,
‘ Encode an string so that it can be displayed correctly’ inside the browser.” Same effect as the Server.HTMLEncode method in ASPFunction HTMLEncode(ByVal Text As String) As String Dim i
‘ convert a string so that it can be used on a URL path” Same effect as the Server.URLPathEncode method in ASPFunction URLPathEncode(ByVal Text As String) As String Dim i
‘ Create a HTML table from a recordset” set the TableAttribs argument to a suitable value’ (eg “BORDER=1”) to modify the table’s standard layout’ you should omit the NullValues argument
‘ convert a string so that it can be used on a URL query string” Same effect as the Server.URLEncode method in ASPFunction URLEncode(ByVal Text As String) As String Dim
‘ Decode an HTML string to a regular ANSI string” it strips down all special HTML sequences (eg “<“)’ however, it doesn’t strip HTML tagsFunction HTMLDecode(ByVal html As String) As
Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib “user32” Alias “FindWindowA” (ByVal _ lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) As LongPrivate Declare Function SendMessage Lib “user32” Alias “SendMessageA” (ByVal _ hWnd As
Windows only permits 1024 active bitmap/icon handles to be in use at any time. The UniPicture control provides a method to store data for more than 1024 Bitmaps/Icons without depleting
Const DM_BITSPERPEL As Long = &H40000Const DM_PELSWIDTH As Long = &H80000Const DM_PELSHEIGHT As Long = &H100000Const CCDEVICENAME As Long = 32Const CCFORMNAME As Long = 32Private Type DEVMODE dmDeviceName As
Private Declare Function SystemParametersInfo Lib “user32” Alias _ “SystemParametersInfoA” (ByVal uAction As Long, ByVal uParam As Long, _ ByRef lpvParam As Any, ByVal fuWinIni As Long) As LongConst SPI_GETLOWPOWERTIMEOUT =
Private Declare Function SystemParametersInfo Lib “user32” Alias _ “SystemParametersInfoA” (ByVal uAction As Long, ByVal uParam As Long, _ ByRef lpvParam As Any, ByVal fuWinIni As Long) As LongConst SPI_SETLOWPOWERTIMEOUT =
Private Declare Function WNetGetUser Lib “mpr.dll” Alias “WNetGetUserA” (ByVal _ lpszLocalName As String, ByVal lpszUserName As String, _ lpcchBuffer As Long) As Long’ return the current default user name or’
Option ExplicitConst DM_BITSPERPEL As Long = &H40000Const DM_PELSWIDTH As Long = &H80000Const DM_PELSHEIGHT As Long = &H100000Const CDS_FORCE As Long = &H80000000Const CCDEVICENAME As Long = 32Const CCFORMNAME As Long
Private Declare Function NetGetDCName Lib “netapi32.dll” (strServerName As Any, _ strDomainName As Any, pBuffer As Long) As LongPrivate Declare Function NetApiBufferFree Lib “netapi32.dll” (buffer As Any) As _ LongPrivate Declare
