October 29, 1998

In the tip, “Please Stop Printing!” [“101 Tech Tips for VB Developers,” Supplement to the August 1997 issue of VBPJ, page 13], the code works fine with one exception. If

If old words or marks have dried on a white board and you can’t wipe them off, write on top of them with a fresh pen and then rub them

Use this code to create a comma-separated value (CSV) file from a recordset based on a SQL query. A number of applications, including Excel and Access, can read CSV files:

Question: Is it valid to attempt to allocate (via ‘new()’) dynamic memory prior to ‘main()’? I am working on software that has static *’s to class objects, and through some

Question: I want to make a log file circular using C++ I/O manipulation. I am new to C++ and come from a C background. To me stream I/O is completely

Question: Coming from a Basic/Visual Basic background, how hard is it for one to transition to Visual C++? Can I transition without, first, learning C itself? What books would you

Question: When writing a Windows 95 program using VC++, how do you play a MIDI sound file? Answer: Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) is a standard used by electronic keyboards

Question: If I make a C++ library and supply it to a clientwho does not have a C++ compiler, can theycall my C++ functions from their C routines?That is, is

Question: Why is int 2 bytes with real mode compilers, but 4 bytes with protected mode compilers? And why is the class defination ended with ;-mark, since other definations aren’t?