I find that my opinion continues to shift on about 10%-20% of the list, so don't be surprised to find the list changing - or growing as I consider the list in more detail.

You can view the snippets online at this site or download my freeware gbCodeLib code librarian, which has the source code for all of these. It contains snippets and mini-tutorials for several languages such as VB, VB.net, VBA, JavaScript, Perl, Java, and HTML.

Applications 1. Associate an extension with an application 2. Create a shortcut to an application (to a specified folder, including Windows special folders) 3. Open a Color dialog 4. Open a File dialog 5. Open a Folder dialog 6. Open a Font dialog 7. Put app icon in the system tray 8. Put app in the Explorer context menu 9. Put app in the SendTo context menu 10. Start a new application and wait for it to finish 11. Start an application when Windows starts up 12. Test whether the application is running within the IDE 13. Maintain MRU file (most recent updated files) 14. Read/write INI files 15. Create context menus 16. Resize controls when form resizes Arrays 17. Cycle througn an array 18. Randomly shuffle an array 19. Remove an element of an array (by content or by position) 20. Search an array Clipboard 21. Copy or retrieve text and images from the clipboard Controls 22. Automatically highlight textbox content on focus 23. Capture any key (Enter, TAB, arrow keys, home/end, F-keys, ...) 24. Forces lower/upper case on text input 25. Richtextbox manipulation (word wrap, find and replace, TAB control, flicker control, merge two controls, ...) 26. Toolbar manipulation (customize, dropdowns, images, sync with menus, ...) 27. Statusbar manipulation Date-Time 28. Compute elapsed time between 2 dates 29. Compute elapsed time between 2 events (ms accuracy) 30. Display time in multiple formats Files 31. Create valid full pathname from folder and file names 32. Extract file name from a full path 33. Determine if a file exists 34. Get file properties (size/date/attributes) 35. Delete a file to the recycle bin 36. Backup/restore a file File - Text 37. Read file one line at a time or all at once 38. View content File - Binary 39. Read/write data at a specific location 40. Read entire file at once 41. View contents in hex or binary-stripped format Folders/Drives 42. Determine if a file exists 43. Delete a folder and its subfolders 44. Get list of dirve letters 45. Get type of drive 46. Open DOS windows at a specific folder 47. Open a Window at a specific folder 48. Open Windows Explorer at a specific folder 49. Create a fll path of folders Forms 50. Center a form 51. Keep form on top 52. Set min/max size of form 53. Add a splitter (vertical/horizontal) 54. Unload all forms Graphics 55. Convert between Long, RGB, VB, and web colors 56. Get image size without reading entire file (JPG/GIF/BMP) 57. Get screen resolution 58. Generate a gradient fill 59. Overlay an image with transparency control 60. Read/write/display/convert images (JPG/GIF/BMP) 61. Resize and image, keeping aspect ratio 62. Capture the screen or any part of the screen 63. Set wallpaper - center/stretch/tile Internet 64. Check for Internet connection 65. Create URL shortcut 66. Create web page (HTML) from code 67. Download text/binary file, with progress indicator 68. Upload text/binary file, with progress indicator 69. Get remote file information (size/date0 70. Open a web page in a browser 71. Send email using default email application 72. Update file via FTP Math 73. Create random integer within specified range 74. Round number to specified number of decimals Multimedia 75, Play CD 76. Play sound or video file (.wav, .mp3, ..mid, avi, .mpg) 77. Record sound or video Navigation 78. List all files and folders beneath a specified full path Printing 79. Print images (positioned, scaled, or tiled) 80. Print preview 81. Color text printing 82. Send page eject to the printer 83. Print justified text (left/right) Registry 84. Clear application setting from registry 85. Write/edit application settings 86. Write/edit/delete anywhere in the registry Security 87. Calculate checksum 88. Encrypt/decrypt a file/string (with or without a password) 89. Disable Ctrl-Alt-Del Sort 90. Bubble sort 91. QuickSort Strings 92. Convert strings to upper/lower case 93. Find/replace a string within a string 94. Split string into an array based on delimeters 95. Find text between two strings System 96. Get computer name 97. Get user name 98. Get name of special folders (Windows, System, SendTo, Startup, 99. Get Windows version 100. Reboot / restart / logoff system