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Month: January 2020

Solving the Unicode, UTF8, UTF16 and Text Files conundrum in VBA

Understanding Unicode variants like UTF8 and UTF16 and how they impact your Office VBA development is not so straightforward. This post will guide thru the experience of reading a text file with VBA, explain some of the pitfalls you may encounter on this path when dealing with different text encodings and file formats. We’ll shed… Continue reading Solving the Unicode, UTF8, UTF16 and Text Files conundrum in VBA

Using national language support in Office with VBA

Localization demo application screenshot

If you need to handle multiple languages, get some specific regional settings, or do things like implement dynamic runtime language switching in your Microsoft Office solutions, you can leverage some additional help using the national language support Win32 API in VBA. Do you know why you have to use the US English date format when… Continue reading Using national language support in Office with VBA

Explaining the real time device detector Access demo database

In this post, we’ll examine and explain how the Access application that demonstrates a possible, real life use case, of the device detection feature of the AxDeviceDetector ActiveX server. See the downloads section below to download a copy of the database. Scenario We want to allow, let’s say, restaurant waiters or employees, to register their… Continue reading Explaining the real time device detector Access demo database

Explaining how to detect device arrival/removal in an ActiveX server in real time

We’ve seen know how to get some useful information (like vendor ID and serial number) from attached Windows devices, using a C DLL. Interfacing the DLL with Visual Basic, was then just a matter of declaring the DLL functions in a standard module. With some more basic wrapping, we’ve obtained a simple API function and… Continue reading Explaining how to detect device arrival/removal in an ActiveX server in real time

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