John Percival
35 articles
Visual Basic
Adding a Related Document to a project
A question I am quite frequently asked is how we add the readme.txt file as a related document in the demos on the site....
Visual Basic
Book Review: Beginning E-Commerce: With VB, ASP, ADO and MTS
E-commerce is the name given to the business process of selling yourproducts, goods, and services over a Web browser. In its simplest form, itallows...
Visual Basic
Add a Line to the Autoexec.bat
Do you need to add a DOS driver or TSR into the autoexec.bat or config.sys file? The easiest way to do this is to...
Visual Basic
The IIf function
Have you come across the IIf function? This is what help says:
Syntax
IIf(expr, truepart, falsepart)
The IIf function syntax has these named arguments:
Part
Description
expr
Required. Expression you want...
Visual Basic
Accessing the Windows Registry with the API
Last week, we looked at the basic
Registry functions provided by VB. I also suggested a simple model by which we could think
of the Registry. ...
Visual Basic
Product Review: Codestylist
Code stylist is a very useful utility that formats your Visual Basic code into a much more readable form. It can align, indent and...
Visual Basic
Using Graphics: Making a Lander Game – Part 2
Newsletter Subscribers: Are you looking for Creating a Visual Basic 6 Add-In?
After last week's somewhat one dimensional flight of fantasy into Visual Basic Space...
Visual Basic
Using Graphics: Making a Lander Game – Part 3
This week, I'm going to conclude our trio of articles on games and graphics programming with a touch of class. Not a new stylish...
Visual Basic
Product Review: Print Preview
The Print Preview OCX is an ActiveX control that does exactly what it says
it does. It has a multitude of options that allow you...
Visual Basic
Visual Basic Database Programming Multimedia Cyber Classroom
This interactive classroom is part of the Complete Database Training Course from
Prentice Hall Professional Technical References. Also included with the Complete Database
Training Course is...