I don't recall ever writing a VB app in which I didn't use API calls.  There
are some things that are just too difficult or even impossible through
native VB functions.  Why create a custom DLL to wrap a simple API call?
Things like shelling and waiting for a process to return, limiting a textbox
to just numeric data, finding a value in a combo/list ox quickly,
subclassing controls, etc.

VB is nice, but it almost always lacks something.

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Christopher Tacke, MCSD
Rubicon Technologies
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