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Tips That Make Programming Life Easier

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Submitted on: 10/16/2003 8:27:04 AM
By: Lam Ri Hui  
Level: Intermediate
User Rating: By 45 Users
Compatibility: VB 3.0, VB 4.0 (16-bit), VB 4.0 (32-bit), VB 5.0, VB 6.0
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     Contains over 50 tips to help your programming experience easier. Feel free to leave comments.

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10/16/2003 9:34:37 AMLight Templer

Hi Lam Ri Hui! Your collection is pretty good (even for experienced VB pros ;) ) Thx for and ***** (especialy the Write multi-dim arrays as variants to file is GREAT!) Regards LiTe
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10/16/2003 9:09:38 PMLam Ri Hui

thanks Light Templer for his vote. i appreciate it
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10/16/2003 9:51:01 PMGoodVillain

Nice work like always. 5 from me. :)
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10/17/2003 3:41:54 AMRobert Rayment

Interesting read *****
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10/17/2003 4:07:06 AMEdwin Vermeer

The article is great, but adding a copyright to something that is not yours stinks. so 1 globe for the one who posted this and 5 balls for the article. So i will put in the average which is 3

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10/17/2003 6:54:24 AMthornmastr@

Certainly worth the read.
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10/18/2003 12:35:28 AMA|L|E|X

certainly great!
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10/18/2003 12:48:35 PM

Thank you, I learned a couple of useful points. 5 globes
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10/20/2003 10:40:38 AMLam Ri Hui

thx guys! i am happy to know that many people had read this article and give me feedback
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10/22/2003 8:09:54 PMmark jackson

Good Info - 5 globes, thanks
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10/23/2003 1:17:08 AMGajendra S. Dhir

I am using VB full-time for more than 5 years - even I found many new tips.
Thanks
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10/23/2003 4:18:06 AMItchy Fellow

thanks to share the tips. 5 globes for the article.
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10/24/2003 9:02:25 AMBest Computing

Absolutely Super Tips.I have learnt an awful lot.Thanks for your efforts.
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10/24/2003 11:42:30 PMCode Sniffer

your tips are absolutely great! helped me much in programming! 5 globes for your article.
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10/25/2003 2:03:47 AM

great tips
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10/27/2003 10:12:58 PMShane Lang

I dunno if this is copyrighted by another source or not but I'll still give you 5 globes cause it has some real nice tips.
But dont copyright other peoples work.
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10/31/2003 9:02:27 AMBurn Fire

wouldn't it be nice if you update this with more tips?
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10/31/2003 9:04:23 AMBurn Fire

anyway, very good!
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11/18/2003 11:07:55 PMMike Glinch

Hi, I'm a new VB user and I found that your article contains tons of tips that I don't know! Thanks Lam for sharing the tips. OOOOO 5 globes!!
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11/20/2003 6:12:23 PMBryant Zadegan

Nice job yours won the coding contest!
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11/25/2003 8:42:50 AM

You have done a nice job! 5g
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11/30/2003 2:56:05 AMSurfer Inter

Nice Job! You won the contest!
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12/1/2003 8:37:25 PM

Spot on mate, very helpful, lots of useful tips. 5 Stars *****
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12/23/2003 3:59:57 AMRon Parker

edmin vermeer : hey, cmon, i guess most of the ppl put copyright and stuff, but, have they really taked the copyrights ?? i doubt so !! and anyways, ur not gonna copy these tips and send it , r u ?
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12/25/2003 2:04:24 PMMichael Barnathan

I didn't really find anything new here; most of these tips are fairly basic. That combined with the copyright disputes gets this article a 3/5 from me - it's really pretty overrated.
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12/31/2003 4:49:43 AM

Dear Sir.,
I am sankar,and i am from madras.I am working in Networkking field but my friend asked me to collect some codes for him just i got your site through blind searching.Really superb the codes and all.Besides is there any specific material like activex controls basics to expert and database programming and debugging and error handling etc.,If you provide materials on the above mentioned topics that will be very useful for those who wants to sharpen their VB Skills.
I am looking for your kind reply.,
Your's truely.,
R.Sankar ramasamy
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3/3/2004 4:36:23 AMgurpreetsingh

Impressive , If I am correct These are basic stuffs But who reads basic now a days when they start to learn something. I am an Engineer, Using VB for 5 years And I only can say that If I had got this article 5 years back ,It would have saved me a lot of precious time. I did know most ones but also many were like a new idea to me.
5 from me also.
And keep posting new Ideas.
Regards
Er. Gurpreet Singh
CEO Sukhmani Software
New Delhi
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