Welcome to the Visual Basic Tips section of Global Systems Design. These tips are old but still apply.

I just downloaded and installed the new Visual Basic Express Edition 2000 which is now free from Microsoft so I should be composing some new tips soon.

• Parsing the command line for parameters
• Determining your application's startup path
• Changing the startup form for a project

• Determining which files need to be distributed with your application
• Changing the name of the default installation directory for your application
• Changing the name or icon of your application's executable file

• The On Error GoTo Clear trick
• Getting a list of VB error messages

• Recursive Quick Sort code and algorythm analysis

• What is a UDT?
• Reading and Writing UDTs to file

• Propercase routine for name and address fields
• Getting rid of spaces on the ends of strings