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KillProcess – Terminate any application

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ShutDownWindows – Shut down and reboot the operating system

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Make a phone call using TAPI

If TAPI libraries are installed on your machine, you can easily dial a number from a VB application using a single API call. Here’s a function that encapsulates the call

Print3D – Display text with 3D effect

‘ Display a text with 3D effect” OBJ can be a form or a PictureBox’ TEXT is the text to be displayed’ X, Y are the coordinate (in twips or

Avoiding Crashes Due to Multiple Deletes

Many times, a program crashes due to multiple deletes on the same pointer. In some cases, this is due to a programming error that can be removed. There are situations,

Using Memset On Class Objects

It’s common practice in C, to do a memset on structures, in order to initialize all member variables to some default value, usually NULL. Similarly, you can use memset to

Structs and Unions

It is common knowledge that the only difference between a struct and a union in C is that all elements of a union share the same memory location but the

Creating an MSACCESS Database through VB

I have frequently seen bulletin board requests on how to create MSACCESS databases with VB. To do this, add a reference to the Microsoft DAO _._ Object Library (I am

ComboBox Autofill

ComboBox controls, out of the box, don’t help complete phrases as they are typed in. The sample code below accomplishes that task. cmb is the name of the ComboBox to

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