Tips N Tricks

Ok, on my relativly new web site i will be putting up a new section on my Visual Basic page, a Tips N Tricks section. Well the problem is i dont have that many tips. So if you want to, either post your tip here or email it to me, and maybe ill put it up. Oh and your name will go along with it on my page. Thanks...

What types of tips would you like? i.e general, games, internet, database etc.

[Sam Finch]

Do you want little 3 sentence tips or great big long ones.

Any tips that are intresting for beginners to advanced, and just long enough so that the person reading it will understand it and know what to do.

Here's one for NEW NEW NEW beginners.

You can place a picture for the background of a button
by setting it's style to Graphical and then
setting a valid picture for the Picture property.

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use
vbCrLf instead of chr(13)

use shift and the arrow keys to size controls on the form.
use ctrl and arrow keys to move controls on the form.
gives you more control than using the mouse.

if you want to set a background color for a button you have to set it to graphical style.....

this isnt a tip but a question, how the hell do i set a graphical buttons forecolor ?

the frame control is pretty useless but it looks really good.

the timer doesnt count down, it counts to the milliseconds untill it is disabled, I found this out the hard way,
I was opening a url every 100 milliseconds, and I thought it counted down, It took me 5 mniutes, and 30 browser windows to stop the damn thing from going to the url.....

well thats all for now folks.....