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June 26, 1998

PB 16-bit or 32-bit under PB4

Question: I have PB 4.0 installed under Windows NT. How do I tell if it is 16-bit or 32-bit PB? Answer: You can check the environment object for an ostype

Current Directory

Question: I made a project that resides in a subdirectory under Microsoft Visual Basic 4. Example: C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Basic// When I run the program, I want it to get

Context-sensitive help

Question: When a user wants to find help on a column that has focus, I want that user to be able to hit F1, and help to be displayed based

Application Start Directory

Question: My application is started by clicking an icon with a TARGET of “\itgcssd1sgrsv3.0132sgrs.exe” and a START IN directory of “c:winnt”. Is there any way to determine the TARGET location

DPB and DCOM with Active Server Pages

Question: What threading model does DPB use? Apartment? I’d like to use PB to create MTS components for an Active Server Pages project. Do you foresee any problems? Any advice?

Problems with TypeOf

Question: Given: Dim oX as Object Set oX = optChoice1 If TypeOf oX is CheckBox Then… If optChoice1 is a CheckBox the If… will be true unless optChoice1 is an

Identity column in SQL server database

Question: I inserted a new row in a table with Identity column, and saved it by calling update function. Then I immediatly tried to modify this record and update again.