Tips Topics: 170
App.Path - correct flaw
Bits in a byte - setting and clearing
Calculating Pi
Card32.dll - how to work
CD-ROM - find drive letter
Changing the default saving location of VB
Collection - Implementing a Queue
Collection Classes ... Object Power
COM class - list the properties
Command Button - change forecolor
Command Button - fake a click.
Command Button - use checkbox to fake forecolor
Common dialog - get directory only
Common dialog - MultiSelect
Controls - create With Events
Controls - dynamic create with MouseOver
Controls - Multi-Dim
Copy HTML from one browser to another!
Create an instance of IE
Create desktop shortcuts
Creating Hyperlinks On A Form
Ctrl+Alt+Del - disable on NT O/S
Dates - Adding Time
Dates - Converting from English format
Delay a Process...
Desktop shortcut - how to change property
Detect mouse clicks outside of VB application?
Determining listbox item from mouseover
Dial Up Connections with VB
DirListBox - single-click ability
Disabling/hiding the Close ("X") button
DoEvents - Optimised
DOS commands from C:\ Prompt in Windows.
DOS window to Textbox
Download File from Internet
Draw gradient from one color to another
Drive properties
E-Mail from VB
Elaborate Message Boxes
Email - Some topics about emailing from within VB
Emulating INP / OUT in VB
Encryption
End
Enter an invisible password
Evaluate "1+2+3" to 6
Extend a TextBox character limit with API
Fast code
Files - check if drive exists
Files - checking if exists
Files - create associations w/ icons
Files - date and time information
Files - get one character at a time
Files - read the line of your choice
Files - recursive sub-dir search
Folder Picker, better than the CommonDialog
Fonts - view yours
Forms - Always On Top
Forms - lock window size (API)
Forms - Unload all forms
FSO - return all folders and subfolders
GIF - animate in VB Code
GIF - animation with timer
GIF - use Webbrowser to display
Help - make your own
Hex - convert to decimal
HEX - RGB type stuff
Hex numbers - proper usage
HiResolution timer in “winmm.dll”
How to increment a counter with a VScrollbar properly
HOW TO: Use Public Types as params in Class modules
Icons - Creating
IDE - crashing & losing code
IDE - Improvements
Image Control - proportion to fit inside Form
INI - delete section in ini file
INI - Saving variables between sessions
INI - use API's or Registry
InputBox - Password Char
Keyboard & mouse: block input temporarily
Knowing where the Windows folder is
Launch Anything...
Line numbering
Listbox - move Items up and down
Listview - sort numeric columns
Load VB6 Code in VB5
Locating My Document path
Log application errors!
Make VB wait for a DOS app to finish
MDI - scroll corrections
Menu - outside of Form
Microsoft DLL Help Database
Midi Files - playing sound
Moving pieces in board games, like Monopoly
MSFlexGrid - entering/editing text
Multiple If's to a Select - Clean code
Never use OLB files (MS Office) in setup
OCX - mark "Safe for Scripting"
OLE Drag 'N Drop
Option Buttons
Option Explicit
Passwords - XP Style
Pause a program
Pause a program
Picturebox - in Picturebox scrolling
PictureBox - load picture into
Picturebox - save as .jpg
Picturebox - ultimate scrolling
Printer - Dot Matrix (bypass spooler)
Printer - sending control codes
Put an icon in a formless compiled exe
RaiseEvent in many objects
Randomize - avoiding duplicates
Randomizing the contents of a ListBox
Reducing a fraction
Reg - UnReg ActiveX from right click menu
Registry - editing
RGB - convert from Long
Richtextbox - change text color on keypress
Risk Board Game I
Risk Board Game II
Rotate a Line control degree by degree
Run App as Service in Win2k
Run program in background
Running code from IDE or executable?
Screen - change resolution
Screen - detect system font size
Screen - get current resolution
Screen - hide desktop icons, wallpaper, etc
Scrolling Credits
Select Case - Nifty Trick
Sending GroupWise Message with VB
Sending text to another program
Showing a preview of your ScreenSaver
Sick of Loops?...Query A Collection (psuedo matrix)FAST
Simulate 'PrintScreen' keypress in VB
Spell Checker
Split() or selfmade loop ?
Start Menu - disable with keybd hook
Systray - VB Program
Take the Ding out of the Enter Key
Taskbar Size
Textbox - accept only numbers I
Textbox - accept only numbers II
Textbox - access in another program
Textbox - Clean a lot quickly !
Textbox - force format (UCase LCase Numeric)
Textbox - limit input in several
Textbox - SelText is faster than vbCrLf
Textbox - UCase as typed
Textbox - use Label to fake locked
Timer - Beginner's Countdown
Timer - flash text
Tired of VB DLLs and "broken compatibility"?
Toggle a Form's Titlebar During Run-Time
UDT - pass to a Class with Friend Keyword
Use copymemory API to get RGB color
Use resouce file to save pictures to a folder.
Using AutoCAD DWG, DFX, DWF
VB.NET Using Microsoft Agent
VBScript - keyword summary
View HTML Page as a Graphic
Visual Studio® Installer 1.1 Replace PDW
Wait for another app to finish
Wav files - quick way to play
Web - Get HTML/Body Text
WebBrowser - get HTML source
WebBrowser - get web page text (no tags)
WebBrowser - print HTML
WebBrowser - print preview and print content
Winsock - list directory files
Source Code Topics: 45
API Bitmap Class
Array functions (9)
ASCII reference program
Audio volume control (download)
Chat - for two on LAN
Chat - peer to peer (download)
Check drive space and file copy.. using FileSystemObject
Check writing - numbers to words
Color Chart Organizer (HTML named colors)
Color Gradient
Compare 2 Dirs, & if file isnt present copy to 2nd Dir
Convert VB code to HTML
Creating a C++ DLL for use with VB6
Creating a Window via API
Custom ScrollBar - you make your own
Data Control - simple project
Email - with second profile
Encryption + 64 bit
Encryption - simple project
FileView Utility (Menu Control Demo)
Game - Paper Rock Scissors
Game - tetris
Get a Label's Caption from a pointer...
Get Logged On User
INI files - made easy
Key logger
KeyState without API
Keystroke Text Case Change
Menu's - enhanced
Mouse class
Radians and Degrees
Rapid KeyPad Adder
Registry Access
RichTextBox HTML Viewer (unjumbles and colors tags)
Saving all textboxes to one file (no api)
Site Checker program (download)
String functions - useful
Strings - Pad, Wrap, Count, etc.
System Tray Icon class
Text Search Popup
VB6 Functions for VB5
View formatted Vb code
Watermark picturefile
Windows Idle Time
Windows Shell/Processes
Database Reference Topics: 46
ADO Provider Properties and Settings
DAO Error List
DataGrid - populate using code
DB Access password protected db's
DB Auto-increment key field
DB Connect to Access 2000 with Data Control
DB Connect to MySQL
DB Connect to REMOTE DB
DB Connect to SQL
DB Connecting to mySQL
DB Copy a table to another db
DB Create & delete a TABLE in ADO
DB Create an Access db
DB CSV (comma separated variable text files)
DB Data Control & Access 2000
DB Filtering
DB Find field max length
DB Getting Started with ADO
DB INNER JOIN Query
DB Listing Tables
DB Login tutorial ADO & Access 2000
DB Password protection
DB Password w/ ADODB Jet4
DB Passwords: Create/Change/Open
DB Pictures in a db
DB Searching
DB Selecting datagrid record
DB Tables: Add/Delete/Rename/ Insert
DB Web db info (links)
Downloads for updating Data Access
Error code list - ADO
Error: "..cannot perform this action.." - solved
Error: Workgroup information file is missing? - solved
Flexgrids - using with Data
ISGData Control for ADO
MS Access: How to get Field Description?
Quote chars in SQL queries
Report Crystal (beginner tutorial)
Report Crystal (beginner)
Report Labels and text
Report Print Access report
Report Totals
SQL Database - Temp Tables
VisData (Visual Data Manager)
VBA Reference Topics: 11
Access - Iterate thru table by column
Excel - check cell text colour
Excel - it writes code for you!
Excel - managing VBA project
Excel - Time Calculations
Excel - Zero2NullString
Excel97 - Excel2002 differences
Listbox - Adding Items
No AddressOf function - workaround
VBA - What can it do?
VBA Where do I start?
Game Reference Topics: 8
Alphablend using w98 api!
Bresenham by Brian Duckworth
CreateCompatibleDC failure
DirectDraw - function to return color
Fix for PlaySound and Win2k Bug
Graphic file formats
PictureBox - resize image
Saving a control's DC to a BMP file
.NET Reference Topics: 14
.Net Framework - must it be used?
AutoRedraw = True?
Control creation in code?
Creating Remoting projects
Factory Class
Free VB.NET IDE.
Great .Net Framework Site
IDE - project files and shared files
Multiple Forms in VB.Net
MyBase, Me and MyClass - differences
Namespace
Unload me?
VB .NET books & web sites
Visual Studio .NET training videos