http://developercenter.northcomp.comen-usCopyright 1996-2012 Northstar Computer Systemseditor@northcomp.comeditor@northcomp.comhttp://backend.userland.com/rsshttp://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/Changing-Form-Title-Bar-Colorhttp://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/Changing-Form-Title-Bar-ColorA user asked if there was a way to programmatically change the color of the form's title bar. The short answer to this is no. The color of the title bar is cont...http://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/Calling-Event-Handlers-as-Subroutineshttp://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/Calling-Event-Handlers-as-SubroutinesWhen you’re writing a VB program, you create event handlers to deal with events like a form loading or a user clicking on a button. These event handlers are jus...http://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/Cache-Common-Datahttp://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/Cache-Common-DataIf you're using data from a database in a lookup manner, keep it in local variables or an array instead of continually checking the recordset. This will make yo...http://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/Building-SQL-Statementshttp://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/Building-SQL-StatementsIf you are building SQL statements within your VB code that have data that might have single quote characters in it, be sure to replace every single quote with ...http://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/Getting-a-Forms-Handlehttp://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/Getting-a-Forms-HandleMany API calls require the use of a window handle, or hWnd for short. If you need to pass a handle to the current form, use the hWnd property of the form. That ...http://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/Building-a-Most-Recently-Used-File-Listhttp://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/Building-a-Most-Recently-Used-File-ListOne common feature in applications like Word and Excel is the Most Recently Used (MRU) list at the bottom of the File menu. This list shows the last four (typic...http://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/Beginning-Visual-Basic-6-Objectshttp://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/Beginning-Visual-Basic-6-ObjectsWritten by Peter Wright Published by Wrox Press Visual Basic 6 includes new and enhanced object-oriented programming features, many of ...http://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/Avoid-the-ADO-AddNew-and-Delete-Methodshttp://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/Avoid-the-ADO-AddNew-and-Delete-MethodsIf you’re looking to coax some performance from your application, be sure that you are using stored procedures or SQL statements to handle all your record addit...http://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/ADO-Recordsets-are-Forward-Only-By-Defaulthttp://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/ADO-Recordsets-are-Forward-Only-By-DefaultIf you’re using ADO Recordsets in your applications, remember that using the Connection.Execute method creates a Forward-Only recordset. This type of recordset ...http://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/ADO-2-5http://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/ADO-2-5ADO 2.5 is included with Windows 2000 and is also available as a separate download from the Microsoft Data Access site at http://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/Adding-Records-to-Tables-with-AutoIncrement-Fieldshttp://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/Adding-Records-to-Tables-with-AutoIncrement-FieldsEver have a table that has an autoincrement (AutoNumber in Access, for instance) field and not sure how to add a record to the field? If you try to put a value...http://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/Adding-Carriage-Returnshttp://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/Adding-Carriage-ReturnsWhen writing code that exports to a plain text file, it's often necessary to embed special characters, such as carriage returns, line feeds, and tab characters....http://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/Accessing-Special-Foldershttp://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/Accessing-Special-Folders If you've ever needed to retrieve information about your system, you're faced with a myriad of confusing API calls. If you rely on the VB API Viewer to fin...http://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/ADO-Execute-Methodhttp://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/ADO-Execute-MethodIf you're performing database functions in your ASP applications, it's quicker to use the Execute method than to create and open a Recordset object. You can cre...http://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/A-Quick-Way-to-Save-Datahttp://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/A-Quick-Way-to-Save-DataHere's a subroutine that uses ADO within a COM component to save data from the object back to a database recordset. This code makes the assumption that there is...http://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/A-Quick-Way-to-Load-Datahttp://developercenter.northcomp.com/article/A-Quick-Way-to-Load-DataFor COM objects that pull their data from a database, here's a quick way to load up the object with all of its fields. This code makes the assumption that each ...