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       My articles (published at codeguru.developer.com/vb):

• TimerX - Extended Timer for more than 65000 miliseconds
• 4 methods to show 'Find Files' dialog

• Disable Low Level Keys - disable ALT-TAB, CTRL-END or CTRL-ESC keys combinations
• Move&Resize control - container for moving & resizing other controls at run-time
• URL Info - proggie for converting an URL, ping operations and getting informations regarding a site (whois lookup)

       New articles from M$ Technical Support related to Visual Basic could be found here

      All the subjects will be grouped (about 10-15 per page) for an easy download and update.

How to ...

1. Retrieving the current URL in MSIE and NN
2. Launch the Internet browser with an address
3. Get screen resolution
4. Invoke a help file
5. Disable the close button for a window
6. Create a flat toolbar (IE or MS Office style)
7. Show a combo-box in a MSFlexGrid cell
8. Window always-on-top
9. Show the Find File dialog
10. Check for Diskette in a drive
11. LoWord/HiWord & LoByte/HiByte conversions(2 methods)
12. Show the 'Printer Setup' dialog
13. Get/change 'Drop Down Combo' width
14. Hide/show 'Start' button for Windows
15. Start the screen saver
16. Change the screen wallpaper
17. Show an Access (mdb) report
18. Open/close CD-ROM door
19. Put an image in menu (as menu item)
20. Change the check mark in menu with a image (1)
21. Change the check mark in menu with a image (2)
22. Interchange checked/unchecked for a check-box
23. Restrict a text-box to numbers (with API)
24. Delete a file to Recycle Bin
25. Empty Recycle Bin
26. CRC32
27. Get the user name
28. Get IP address with 'winsock.dll'
29. Getting short name for a path (8.3)
30. Launch an application and waiting for stop
31. Fast searching in Combo-box & List-box
32. Show the properties of a file
33. Window locking (w/o LockWindowUpdate API)
34. Task list
35. Fast searching in strings
36. Writing a log event for NT
37. All the databases available for MS SQL Server
38. Getting / setting double-click time
39. Creating shortcuts on the desktop & start menu
40. Limit text in Combo and Auto-complete
41. What OS?
42. Ethernet address of the net-card
43. Check the DialUp Connection
44. List to the printer port (LPT1)
45. Adding an item in Combo using API
46. The fastest way to copy a Combo from a form to another (at runtime)
47. Select entire row in Listview
48. Using rotated font
49. Check DCOM support
50. Rows number in a text-box
51. Active connection to the Internet (Win 9x)
52. Get Internet connection status
53. Get taskbar type and place
54. Hide the taskbar
55. Open password protected database (DAO)
56. Open password protected database (ODBC)
57. Play a WAV file
58. Wait some seconds
59. Encrypt/decrypt functions
60. Set the margin for a texbox (pixels)
61. Text undo
62. Move captionless forms
63. Get color depth
64. Get thounsands separator and decimal char
65. Change context menu for text-box
66. Get descriptions for API errors
67. Change font color for a command-button
68. Register an OCX (without regsrv32.exe)
69. Start Mode for Windows session
70. Delete Recent Docs
71. Get NUMLOCK, CAPSLOCK, SCROLL status
72. Fill a tree-view with path folders
73. Auto-complete in combo-box (with mdb)
74. Stop the program a few seconds
75. Shrink or stretch an image
76. Rotate an image
77. Check the sound card
78. Show DialUp connection dialog
79. Tile a picture-box with an image
80. Tile a form with an image
81. Move / copy files with API
82. Free space on HDD
83. Test leap years
84. IsWeekend?