Set ComboBox dropdown height in Visual Basic 6 (VB6) ComboBox control

Here is a useful piece of code to set the ComboBox dropdown height for VB6 ComboBox control.

Private Declare Function MoveWindow Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal x As Long, ByVal y As Long, ByVal nWidth As Long, ByVal nHeight As Long, ByVal bRepaint As Long) As Long

Public Sub SetComboHeight(oComboBox As ComboBox, lNewHeight As Long)
    Dim oldscalemode As Integer
    ' This procedure does not work with frames: you cannot set the ScaleMode to vbPixels, because
    ' the frame does not have a ScaleMode Property.
    ' To get round this, you could set the parent control to be the form while you run this procedure.
    If TypeOf oComboBox.Parent Is Frame Then Exit Sub
    ' Change the ScaleMode on the parent to Pixels.
    oldscalemode = oComboBox.Parent.ScaleMode
    oComboBox.Parent.ScaleMode = vbPixels
    ' Resize the combo box window.
    MoveWindow oComboBox.hwnd, oComboBox.Left, oComboBox.Top, oComboBox.Width, lNewHeight, 1
    ' Replace the old ScaleMode
    oComboBox.Parent.ScaleMode = oldscalemode
End Sub

I've found this code on the web.
I would like to thanks to the original developer :-)

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This is something that bit me sometime ago: seems +=1 and -=1 aren’t atomic operations at VB.net and other .NET languages (not sure for C++) although modern CPUs have INC and DEC instructions at least for integers (maybe IL – intermediate language [for .NET compilers' target "theoretical" machine spec] – doesn’t define such?)

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Patterns for Parallel Programming (free downloadable pdf book by Microsoft) Understanding and Applying Parallel Patterns with the .NET Framework 4 - VB and C#

Here you can find a free downloadable PDF boook (118 pages) from microsoft, that talk about common pattern for parallel programming in .Net 4.0, VB and C#

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Firefox extension: ClickCutter AutoSearch: automatic search of highlighted text on your preferred search engine (google, wikipedia,...)

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This is a fantastic extension, a real time saver!

NVIDIA Kal-El Notebook running Windows 8 on ARM Tegra 3

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Browser benchmark: Firefox 5.0 vs. Chrome 13 vs. Internet Explorer 9 on V8 Benchmark Suite

Firefox 5.0 vs. Chrome 13 vs. Internet Explorer 9

V8 Benchmark Suite - version 6

Results (higher is better):

Chrome 13 beta  -  9669
Firefox 5.0          -  4385
IE 9                     -  2138

Conclusion
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That's absolutely true :-)

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Cool!

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We already explained how the thermal compound (a.k.a. thermal grease or thermal paste) works and a “how-to-apply-it” in our How to Correctly Apply Thermal Grease tutorial. Now, we will try seven different ways of applying it, testing each way, and comparing the cooling performance. Let's see if what we always mention - that less thermal compound is better than more - is true.

Each different method is presented in three pictures, one of the thermal compound applied to the CPU before installing the cooler, one of the CPU after the test with the cooler removed, and one of the base of the cooler after the test.

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A nice article with some real test about how to apply thermal compund.

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My computer seem to be ready, but my ISP isn't....

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