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April 8, 1999

VB – Copying Directories

Question: is there a way I can programmatically copy directories from one drive to another? Answer: The easiest way to do it is by using the File Scripting objects exposed

Floating Window

Question: I have an app that has an MDI form (MDIForm1), one MDIChild form (Form1), and one standard form (Form2). I would like to make Form2 a floating one so

Popup Menu

Question: I wish to add my application to the popup menu that you get in Windows 95/98. I am referring to the menu that pops up whenever you click on

Week of the Year

Question: How can i find out the week number of the year in Visual Basic? Answer: This is easy to do using the DateDiff function. The DateDiff function can calculate

Registering Apps as services

Question: I am trying to hide my application from the task manager in Windows NT 4.0. I have tried registering the app as a service, but this appears to have

VFP Grid Control

Question: How can I freeze the left-most column in a multicolumn grid? Normally when you scan records to the right side of the grid, you lose the information on the

Client/Server

Question: I have a Visual FoxPro 5.0a application running on Windows NT 4.0 workstation on all machines. Most of the stores have at least two workstations using peer-to-peer networking. The