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One of the most important things to understand when automating office, is that it's heavily [search]OOP[/search], and therefore you are forced to work with objects. In order to create an object that is external to your application (for example an office application, whereas a button or textbox would be internal …

Swaps Two Elements Of An Array (So that say, indice1's value would become indice2's value, and vice versa). Simple Code Piece Really...

Another Small And Simple Function To Take Each Character of a string, and put it into an Array, This helps significantly when you need to sift through a string. This Function Uses The spush (String Push) Function, Also In Code Snippits.

The Relative of push is pop. Pop removes the last item in an Array, and returns the value into a single (scalar) variable. Again, due To VB Limitations, this one works on strings.

Simple Function To Simulate The Push Command, due to VB's limitations, This one is Specific To Strings. (Simple enough to modify for integers or variants, etc)

A Simple Function To Generate A Random Password Of A Given Set Of Characters

That link doesn't work correctly (the ...'s in the url are pretty much invalid). If you could resend the link to the code, or use [url]http://tinyurl.com/[/url] to make the link smaller so that the site doesn't truncate the data, it would be greatly appreciated. Coma

I just downloaded the beta 2 of windows vista..... went to install the upgrade, and it needs an installation key..... my question is, how the hell do you obtain this key?

[CENTER][B]For Starters...[/B][/CENTER] I was recently helping someone with Random Files, and I realized as I googled along, that it took me some time to find any kind of information about random files, and how to go about working them. I had to pop in an old 3 1/2 inch floppy, …

There seems to be a serious number of posts regarding the use of VB with an Access Database... Due To The High Volume of questions about access, I'm posting this link. Please, Go through the tutorial, and if you have questions regarding access with VB still (after reading through the …

[CENTER][SIZE=5][B]Catching Up[/B][/SIZE][/CENTER] In The Previous Tutorials, we have covered a lot of information. We've gone over a few of the functions of the CGI.pm, and and figured out how to retrieve information from a web page form, submitted by the user. However, reading this information, and thanking them by name …

[CENTER][SIZE=5][B]Prelude[/B][/SIZE][/CENTER] In the last tutorial, we covered a basic skeleton of a small CGI in Perl. It didn't do much, other than check if the user tried to go directly to the CGI, or if they were submitting information to us through a page. This doesn't do us a whole …

[CENTER][SIZE=5][B]Prelude[/B][/SIZE][/CENTER] Perl is an excellent language, versatile, powerful, and not too difficult to learn. I'm not going to go into detail about Perl, and explain why we have to put #!/usr/bin/perl on the first line, or how using modules work, but I will explain how to check for information from …

[B]A Little Rant[/B] I love [URL=http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/]ThunderBird[/URL], I really do. I only have one problem with it. I have not yet found an e-mail client as good as thunderbird, and every e-mail client that I have entertained have all come short of one specific attribute that I really like. You can …

Any idea's about a javascript function, that will move you to specific line number in a textarea? I'm making a mini-page where I can edit text/perl files on a server. I want to be able to plug in the line number that causes the error, hit go, and have the …

Basically, My question is this: Is rundll32.exe ESSENTIAL to the OS, Or is it just a nice tool to have, that you could actually function without? I mean, would it be possible to rename completely, or even remove it, or does windows actually load files with it?