As a developer, from time to time you are called upon to build or process large chunks of data. During this process, you can use the the local hard drive as a temporary holding area. Admittedly, with todays well-specc’d computers, you shouldn’t need to do this, but back in the day, this was the norm. By request, here… Read More »
This function will allow you to compare one file to another. It will do either a lax check (compare file lengths only) or a stringent check (a byte by byte comparison). Pretty straightforward demonstration of string handling for Visual Basic 6, posted by request. Public Function AreTheyTheSame(ByVal File1 As String, _ByVal File2 As String, Optional StringentCheck As _Boolean… Read More »
Window borders are not something you usually think about. They’re just there, keeping a visual cue of the current workspace. Did you could change the width of these borders? Some folks want just like small borders.
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, right? It seems like MMS 2012 just wrapped up last week, but it was actually over six months ago. Brad Anderson announced on his blog this week the dates of MMS 2013, and a change of venue over what was announced at MMS 2012.
Working with network objects in Visual Basic can be a little daunting for newer programmers. It’s not that scary, really.
Ever wanted to grab all the digits out of a string? This handy little function will do it. Not sure what purpose this would server, but someone requested it, so here it is.
Every new Windows operating system includes some new keyboard shortcuts. If you have been a user of technology for any amount of time, you probably know a few of these yourself. You might even know a few that are not on this list. Keyboard commandos swear by some of these shortcuts. You can just about do anything in… Read More »
Most developers don’t have much of a clue about network fundamentals. What may be a simple thing for a network engineer or system administrator may leave a developer simply scratching his or her head.
Changing an Active Directory user password is not really too difficult. You can even build the function into your own application, by leveraging some Windows API functions.
How can you quickly find the global catalog servers in your domain? Two command-line tools can be helpful here.