When using the SQL Server ODBC driver and SQL Server, and If ODBC preparedexecution is used, certain floating-point values may be incorrectly converted.Microsoft Access and Microsoft Visual Basic commonly use
The Microsoft Access engine will maintain a persistent connection onan ODBC connection in order to be more efficient, even after using a Closemethod on a database opened with ODBC. The
Never, never, never assume that a given API call or control/OCXworks the same under Win95 and Windows NT. For example, the 32-bitfile common dialog handles long file names, right? Well,
With the release of VB4 and the new development environment for32-bit operating systems, I use three versions of Visual Basicin developing VB applications. Some of my clients won’t acceptapps built
The problem? You want to print a single sub but VB always prints allthe subs that are in the current form. You could copy it to the clipboardand print it
There is a list of our new functions in Visual Basic 4.0 for workingwith an application’s Windows registry entries (or .INI file on16-bit Windows platforms): GetSetting(appname, section, key[, default]) GetAllSettings(appname,
LenLongestWord finds the length of the longest word in a stringwhere a word is defined to be bounded by spaces or the ends ofthe string. It also illustrates a case
Many times when I code similar syntax with slight modifications on each line, I like to make a template of thecore syntax, quickly paste a copy of it however many
When you get a cool sample of a VB component and you simply can’t recreate all of its characteristics inyour app, don’t go nuts. Most of the time, you can