Category Archives: Microsoft

The Jaro-Winkler distance (Winkler, 1990) is a measure of similarity between two strings.

Very fast function to encode or decode Quoted-Printable.

The attached code is a demonstration of how to remove duplicates from a string array as quickly as possible.

A module for retrieving the handle number (hWnd) of a window providing only the process id number (PID). This code is seeking handles that match the given PID and returns the hanlde that refers to a visible window. But, since not all the processes running are windowed or some processes may have multiple windows, may not work for… Read More »

This function will retrieve the version number, product name, original program name, etc.

I hope that this is the shortest and easiest wordwrap-function in vb you have ever seen, that you enjoy it and use it in all your projects.

This code convert a TXT file to EXE file. When you convert the file start the EXE and the old file will be typed (like TYPE command) This is really great code

I noticed that there is a ‘Date’ type in VB, but no ‘Time’ type. So if you want to compare Dates you are fine, but for Time comparisons you are a bit stuffed. This is very simple and will allow you to convert times into numbers so that you can make easy comparisons with them.

This code demonstrates how to use the Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Browser Control (AcroPDF.dll) with Visual Basic 6.0. Commented and Explained for beginners use.