Visual Basic

A caveat for the FileSystemObject Delete methods in VB

A function for numbers beginning with 0

A quick VB technique to check for existing items in a list

A tip for filling a ComboBox during an application startup

Add a new item to a form's System menu

Add a new line to existing textbox text

Add and remove images in an imagelist assigned to a toolbar

Add controls to a VB control array at run-time

Add Dithered Backgrounds to your VB Forms

An ActiveX control that restricts a VB form's dimensions

An easy way to remember VB form start-up events

Be sure to Close all Data Objects upon Exit

Case sensitivity in DLL calls

Case-conversion on the fly

Change VB's default OLE request pending message

Clearing all fields and combo boxes on a form

Clearing all text boxes on your form

Code After a Call to Form Unload will Prevent the Form from Closing

Compact long VB filepaths with SHLWAPI library

Confirm Screen Resolution

Create templates from existing forms

Creating a incrementing number box

Creating a new context menu in editable controls

Creating a ScreenSaver

Creating professional documents with code

Creating Short Arrays Using the Variant Data Type

Creating Win32 region windows

Customizing a text box's pop-up menu

Dealing with Null strings in Access database fields

Display animated GIFs in VB

Drag & Drop the real selected VB treeview node

Dragging items from one list to another

Easily generating random numbers

Enabling/disabling all of the controls in a control array

Evaluate string formulas in VB

Finding the CD-ROM drive's letter

Force VB 6.0 to open maximized code windows

Generate accurate ADO RecordCount values in VB

Getting sensible Win32 API call errors

Getting the backslashes right when using App.Path

Globally replace text using just 5 lines of VB code

Hide the mouse cursor in a Visual Basic application

Implementing a "wait" function in VB

Importing Registry settings

Increase Your RAD-ness by creating your own VB5 Templates

Increment and decrement dates with the [+] and [-] keys

Keep your background processes running

Keeping Track of VB Source Code Builds

Labeling your forms

Launch your default web browser from a VB app

Let DateDiff() determine if two dates are in the same month

Let VB determine if the CD ROM drive contains media

Limiting the field length for unbound combo boxes

Maintain a Visual Basic DBGrid's runtime column widths

Manipulate your controls from the keyboard

Measuring a text extent

Opening a browser to your homepage

Prevent drag and drop operations on VB treeview root nodes

Preventing Add-Ins from loading at launch

Preventing multiple instances of VB apps from Inside Visual Basic

Quick Custom Dialogs for DBGrid Cells

Quick Text Select On GotFocus

Quickly switching an object's Enabled property

Read Registry values in VB without API

Referring to a DE Command's recordset in VB 6.0

Replace lengthy path strings with VB object variables

Retrieve a file's short name in VB without API calls

Retrieve subitem values from a VB ListView control

Run a VB application during start-up

Scroll to a VB listview control's selected item

Selecting all text when a TextBox gets focus

Setting the TabIndex property of every control on a form

Showing long ListBox entries as a ToolTip

Simple file checking from anywhere

Simple input validation

Simplying the addition of items to ComboBoxes

Sorting numbered items in a Listbox

Specifying maximum lengths in a ComboBox

Spell check RTF documents in VB

Sure-Fire Way to Allow Users to Cancel Form Unloads

The VB Printer object's paper bin selection protocol

Tip for finding a leap year

Update the VB 6.0 DataGrid control with recordset changes

Use a VB listbox's ItemData property to store ID numbers

Use FileDSNs to ease ODBC Installs

Use FreeFile to Prevent File Open Conflicts

Use ParamArray to Accept an Arbitrary Number of Parameters

Use the DEFAULT and CANCEL Properties of a Command Button

Use the VB6 Split function to count substrings

Use VB's ADOX to determine if internal database objects exist

Use VB's RegExp object to validate email address syntax

Using GetRows to Quickly Save Data Fields to Memory Variables

Using the Alias Option to Prevent API Crashes

Using the Base Address for In-Process Components to speed up the loading phase

Using the Date type with an ADO source

Using the DEFAULT property with multiple-line text boxes

Using the Win32 API to write to the NT EventLog

Using WithEvents to add features to a textbox

Writing to the Windows NT event log