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• Automation of MSN Messenger from VB Code
             (Guest tip courtesy of Nicole Jordan.)

• How to Make Change in VB Code

• Add-In Utility for Closing All Code Windows in VB IDE

• How to Determine if a Number is Prime
  (a brute force method)

• How to Derive Factors of a Number

• VB6 Bug Using Printer.Scale to Print a Graph
             (Guest tip courtesy of Larry Berger.)

• Fun With Textboxes

• DataEnvironment Recordset Example
             (Guest tip courtesy of VBDelight.)

• Closing, Reopening and Rebinding with DataEnvironment
             (Guest tip courtesy of VBDelight.)

• Returning RecordCount With ADO  
             (Guest tip courtesy of VBDelight.)

• Example of Updating a Foxpro Table Via ODBC Direct
             (Guest tip courtesy of VBDelight.)

• How to Launch Control Panel Extensions with VB
             (Guest tip courtesy of Joseph Terranova.)

• How to Determine Drive Size and Available Space

• How to restart your application when Windows starts if it was running at shutdown

• How to read each line of a multiline textbox into an element of an array

• How to determine if a specified year is a leap year

• How to open an ODBC Direct Work Space and create an updatable recordset

• On instancing and naming

• How to to tile a picture on a form

• Generating Output of Database Structure

• Object Browser and Class Wizard Tips

• Using Control Arrays to your Advantage

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