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May 2, 1999

Phone dialer

Question: Is it possible to connect and disconnect a Microsoft phone dialer that calls my Internetservice provider from a VB program? Answer: It sure is, and VB makes it very

Insert a bitmap into Word 97

Question: I’d like to get a bitmap file (c:mypic.bmp) placed on a MS Word97 file (msfile1.doc) using Powerbuilder (6.5). I am interested in printing that file afterwards. Answer: The following

Looped Exceptions

Question: Is there any way to catch exceptions repeatedly, instead of just once? For example, when creating a Date object with a String, an IllegalArgumentException can begenerated and caught. In

Java 2 Compatibility

Question: Why do I have problems running some programs with Java 2? Answer: Many Java class libraries and programs written before Java 2 use a technique called obfuscation to make

Network Authentication

Question: The new java.net.Authenticator class in JDK 1.2 seems to be the answer to generalized user-authentication. Why dogetPasswordAuthentication andrequestPasswordAuthentication both return PasswordAuthentication, butrequestPasswordAuthentication requires a security check? Answer: The getPasswordAuthentication

Simple C++ Dynamic Link Library

Question: I am trying to interface VBA with a C++ DLL. I am very new to C++ programming. I understand the declarations from the VBA side, but I am having

SQL fucntion calls

Question: Does SQL have a function to get only the time–rather than getDate()–which gets the date and time, or a function to get the Unix time() time. (the one that

Registering DLL Files

Question: When I try to register a DLL I created in VB6, I get the message that tells me the DLL is not a valid windows NT image. At the

How to Build an Online Help System

Question: How do I create an online help system to use in VB6? Answer: Try the HTML Help Workshop that ships with VB. It allows you to create a help