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Visual Basic Tips and TricksCovers Visual Basic Versions 3, 4 and 5 |
Tips and Tricks about using Microsoft's Technical Support Knowledge Base...
List of Selected Microsoft Knowledge Base Articles...
Microsoft's FTP (Download) Software Library...
Information about DAO (Data Access Object), Jet Database and Data Control...
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These Tips and Tricks come from my experience, from help that I've gotten from others, from books and other places (such as Compuserve). I've tried to identify and give credit to the people who have helped me along the way. Sadly, I haven't been about to identify everyone -- but I have tried. Most times the Tips or Tricks come from my own experience. If I have trouble with something or find something useful -- I figure that someone else might benifit. I hope that you find these Tips and Tricks useful. I refer to them from time to time. |
The Microsoft Technical Support Knowledge Base Homepage is a good place to start for information about Visual Basic (and other Microsoft Products).
The Basic search allows for you to select the Product, Visual Basic, and then enter your question. Then you click on the "Find" button.
If you don't have a question and simply want to browse the articles, then you might try some of the following...
Search on...
Notes:
Visual Basic Microsoft Knowledge Base usage
See my Tip entitled List of Selected Microsoft Knowledge Base Articles... for more articles
This was written with Visual Basic for Windows/95 in mind, but it can be applied to Windows 3.1, DOS and Macintosh -- as well as other products like Visual FoxPro, Excel, Word, etc.
Platform: Windows/95
Products: Visual Basic Versions 3, 4 and 5
Prepared: 07/21/1998 .. 08/10/1998
Author: Richard Hendricks [eMail]
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Platform: Windows/95
Products: Visual Basic Versions 3, 4 and 5
Prepared: 07/21/1998 .. 08/11/1998
Author: Richard Hendricks [eMail]
[Homepage]
[Copyright & Disclaimer]
Microsoft has an FTP (Download) Site that contains a lot of patches, examples and free utilities.
Take a look at the Index.txt file for the /Softlib/MSLFILES subdirectory. Use this file to find the files that you need. The files are stored in /Softlib/MSLFILES. There are lots of files here. Look around...
The following link, takes you to the Microsoft's Software
Library Files FTP Directory (/Softlib/MSLFILES). You will be presented with a
FTP list of files. You can click on the file(s) that you want or add the
filename to the URL
("ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/") in the
"Location:" text box.
Platform: Windows/95
Products: All Microsoft Products including, Visual Basic Versions 3, 4 and 5
Prepared: 07/31/1998
Author: Richard Hendricks [eMail]
[Homepage]
[Copyright & Disclaimer]
Platform: Windows/95
Products: Visual Basic Versions 3, 4 and 5
Prepared: 09/11/1998 .. 09/15/1998
Author: Richard Hendricks [eMail]
[Homepage]
[Copyright & Disclaimer]
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Copyright © 1998 by Richard Hendricks All Rights Reserved. Feel free to use these tips and tricks in your applications and feel free to share copies and the information to your friends and colleagues. You may not re-sell the original or the source code. If you redistribute it you must include the disclaimer and all original copyright notices. Do not remove the contributors names, copyright notices and disclaimer. Give credit where credit is due. The information given here is believed to be correct, but no legal liability can be accepted for its use. No warranty express or implied, is given as to the use of the information or source code. Use at your own risk. The information given on this site has been carefully checked and is believed to be correct, but no legal liability can be accepted for its use. Do not use code, components or techniques unless you are satisfied that they will work correctly in your applications. Microsoft Corporation holds the rights and copyrights for Visual Basic |