Here's the source code to a Visual Basic project I originally wrote on June 06, 2005 called "Word Combination Maker". This is somewhat similar to my Word Combiner program. This program has to do with string permutations (or rather the permutations of words). It takes a series of words and it can tell you all the different possible ways those words can be re-arranged. Here's an example, let's say I type "A B C". This is composed of 3 individual words (A, B, and C). This can be arranged 6 different ways: "ABC, ACB, BAC, BCA, CAB, CBA". Well that's easy to understand but what about for 4 words, or 5 words? There's a lot more combinations as the number of words grow (it grows exponentially in fact). It can get pretty complicated by hand, so that's why I wrote this program. It would probably be most useful for people advertising on PPC advertising programs like Google Adwords because it allows you to pick out certain keywords and phrases that you can bid on "exactly". All the different ways of combining a series of words can be found with this program. Feedback and comments are welcome.

Download word_combination_maker.zip (June 06, 2005)

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Here are some handy bookmarklets I've created for eBay that will save you some time. Bookmarklets are like regular bookmarks in your web browser except they do something useful when you click on them (read more about bookmarklets on Wikipedia). For example, let's say you shop on eBay a lot and you always buy from the same 3 sellers (John, Mary, and Sue). Every day you check back on eBay to see if John, Mary, or Sue have any new items for sale. In this case most people would just create 3 seperate bookmarks in their web browser, one for John's page, one for Mary's page, and one for Sue's page. But what if there was a way to combine those three bookmarks into one? Well, with a bookmarklet, you can! When you click on the bookmarklet it would ask you which seller's items you want to see, then you enter a seller's name and all of their available items would come up. Bookmarklets are kind of like interactive bookmarks. They can can save you time by allowing you to jump to common eBay destinations faster. To use these bookmarklets simply drag each link to the bookmarks toolbar in your web browser or right-click on them and choose "Add to Bookmarks".

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After spending a great deal of time compiling information from the MSDN and other various online and offline sources I've put together the chart you see below which details all of the different data types available in Visual Basic 6. It includes their min/max values, storage size, and other useful information such as conversion functions and a list of VbVarType constants. If you're looking for other reference material for Visual Basic I also have a VB KeyAscii Chart, a VB KeyCode Chart, and a VB KeyCode Constants Chart.

Download vb_datatype_reference.txt (July 17, 2008)

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