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Dragging a form by a control

This code is reusable and small enough to paste into whatever you're doing and instantly have a form that has no need for a title bar.

API Declarations
In the general declarations section, insert these lines:

Declare Sub ReleaseCapture Lib "User" ()
Declare Function SendMessage _
Lib "User" (ByVal hWnd As Integer, _
ByVal wMsg As Integer, _
ByVal wParem As Integer, lParem As Any) As Long




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In the Mousedown event of the control, insert: 

Sub Command1_MouseDown (Button As Integer, _
Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)
Dim Ret&
ReleaseCapture
Ret& = SendMessage(Me.hWnd, &H112, &HF012, 0)
End Sub