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The AutoText class module

This class can help in simplifying most of the validation chores in your UI-intensive apps. The class “wraps” around a TextBox control and traps most of its events, to automatically

Security for the global Internet

Introduction In this article I’ll move away from COM security to provide an overview about that vast subject generally referred as “Internet security”. As you will see, providing an effective

TransposeMatrix – Rotate a bi-dimensional array

‘ evaluate the transposed matrix” a transposed matrix is the array you get when’ you “rotate” a bi-dimensional arrayFunction TransposeMatrix(arr() As Double) As Double() Dim startRow As Long, startCol As

Crc16 – Evaluate the 16-bit CRC of an array of bytes

Option Explicit’ Evalutate the 16-bit CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Checksum) of an array of bytes” If you omit the second argument, the entire array is consideredFunction Crc16(cp() As Byte, Optional ByVal

Measuring Small Increments of Time in VB

In Visual Basic, it is not possible to measure time with more precision than one second. This code allows the user to measure time passed in increments less than one

Designing Extended Multi-Select List Boxes

While designing a database in Access 2000 recently, I decided the most intuitive way for my users to be able to look at the data they wanted was to let

OpenWindowsHelp – Bring up the Windows Help system

Private Declare Sub keybd_event Lib “user32” (ByVal bVk As Byte, _ ByVal bScan As Byte, ByVal dwFlags As Long, ByVal dwExtraInfo As Long)Private Const VK_LWIN = &H5BPrivate Const KEYEVENTF_KEYUP =

Creating Constructors

In the coming Visual Studio 7, it is possible to create constructors in VB. One of the great benefits of using constructors is that they make it possible to control

Passing An Object’s Property As a Parameter

When you pass a read-writable property directly as a ByRef parameter to a function or subroutine, the property will not be changed. This is because in VB 6.0 or previous

The ADONowCombo control

The NowCombo control is a multi-columns ComboBox that expands on the DBCombo control. You can use it to select and copy an item from another table in the database. For

Automate MSMQ Object Creation

By taking advantage of the functionality of two Microsoft Message Queuing libraries, you can minimize the time it takes to create MSMQ objects during testing or deployment of your messaging

MakePath – Create a nested directory

‘ create a nested directory” it’s similar to MkDir, but it also creates’ all intermediary sub-directoriesSub MakePath(ByVal path As String) Dim i As Integer, ercode As Long On Error Resume

GetFiles – Returns all the files in a directory

‘ Returns a collection holding all the filenames that’ match a given filespec and search attributes.Function GetFiles(filespec As String, Optional Attributes As VbFileAttribute) _ As Collection Dim filename As String

Taking an Address of a Member Function

The name of an ordinary function is implicitly converted to its memory address. For example: typedef int (*pf) ();int func();pf=func; // OK, ‘func’ is implicitly converted to ‘&func’ However, member

Making System Calls in Stored Procedures

Question: I’m writing a procedure to send an e-mail that will receive two parameters: the e-mail address of the recipient and the subject of the e-mail (e-mail content is not

References

Question: I want to know if the following declaration is possible: int *p;p= new int;int &refval= *p; Answer: It’s valid C++. You’re binding a reference to an l-value of type