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When VB generates an executable does it include all the procedures from all the modules or only those that have been actually utilized? This point is important to me as I need to know how to organize my perfectly general purpose libraries - as one monolithic module or into as many modules as is...

My tool-tips are winking out ( too soon ). I'd like them to remain until the mouse is moved or at least for a much longer time. Is there a ToolTipTimeOut property somewhere?

I'd like to set VB Help support so that on F1 it is provided in a Whats This? Help pop-up window for controls but in a Help/HTML Help Help Window for the Form. I've tried all possible combinations of WhatsThisHelp, HelpContextID and WhatsThisHelpID but can't get the effect I want. Does anyone...

In the topic for the Win32 SIZE structure, I found the following puzzling paragraph: "The rectangle dimensions stored in this structure may correspond to viewport extents, window extents, text extents, bitmap dimensions, or the aspect-ratio filter for some extended functions." So what are the...

I would like to know how to set word-wrap for individual cells of a MSHFlexGrid? Setting WordWrap is settings all the cells in the grid. The ColWordWrapOptions seem to relate to whole columns.

I am using an ordinary combo-box as well as a DataCombo in an MSHFlexGrid for editing. However as the height of neither of them can be changed, I am unable to size them over the cells heightwise. I don't want to increase the height of the cells. I remember having seen a built-in drop-down...

I need to make a DTPicker control flat but it has no Appearance property. Is it possible to do this some other way?

Is there really a "Class" keyword in VB? If so pl. show a usage?

I want to save the address of an Object in a long and then access it by using another Object variable of the same type but Windows is always closing the app for illegal memory access. The code is similar to: dim o as New <some-class> o.<some-property>=123 'say dim lng as Long lng = ObjPtr(o)...

Now that my project has grown big, and has deeper nested code, I'd like to reduce the indenting tab blanks from the default 4 to 2 so as to bring more code into view. But to my disappointment, the change affects only new lines and all the old lines are still indented by 4 blanks. Is there any...

I am unable to set multiple relations in a certain SHAPE statement in code. However a DataEnvironment is able to do it fine. What is the correct code?

I have been reading that in a parameterized hierarchical recordset, the child recordsets are fetched every time the corresponding parent record becomes current. Is this safe? Won't the parent and child data be out of sync?

I have many buttons on a ToolBar ( some of which are placeholders for other controls ). However the ToolBar does not wrap soon enough when I narrow the window. IT wraps only after several buttons ( containg other controls have become hidden ). How to get it to wrap so all buttons ( including...

I used to think UBound and LBound return -1 in the case of empty dynamic arrays but instead I get run-time error # 92 ( invalid bound ). So what is the best way of finding if a dynamic array is empty?

In a For Each ... Loop an Exit For statement is not exiting the loop ( I have used a GOTO as a patch for the moment ). But why should this be so? Could it be that Exit For is valid only on For ... Next loops?

How does one make a row of cells look just like a band header in an MSHFlexGrid?

I want to integrate my own security into ADOX User objects. How to do this? PS. I am not all that clear about ADOX security. Does ot merely expose the DBMS security features or what?

This function is supposed to return the max possible width of a string consisting of the given nof. characters but it it is returning too large a value: Public Function MaxTextWidth(hwndWindow As Long, lngNofCharacters As Long) As Single...

Where may I find icons for tree-view style + and -?

I am trying to position a text-box EXACTLY over a MSHFG in order to make it write-also but it is always shifted a bit to bottom-right. How to get it to cover the cell exactly?