July 2, 1999

When you design a Web page using frames, you expect visitors to start at the address of the frameset holder, for example, default.htm. However, people who are linking from a

You can print canned reports in an Access database from VB in different ways. I created this routine to print any report with any criteria or filter from any database.

This code illustrates a VB5 routine that calls a given server’s stored functions or procedures. The first parameter is the stored function procedure name that resides on the server (ORACLE,

You can quickly create IDL (Interactive Data Language) that is compatible with Visual Basic by simply building a server with the Visual Basic IDE that contains the intended interface definitions.

If you’re creating a Jet-based multiuser database system, you’ll sometimes need to know who is currently connected to the shared database. To get this information in situations where you don’t

You should not derive one user-defined COM interface from another user-defined interface when it comes to implementing COM interfaces in VB. A Visual Basic class can inherit from an interface,

Question: My Web site does not seem to be doing anything with the Session_OnStart procedure I have written. Any thoughts as to why? Answer: Many times programmers place the Global.asa

Question: I am using a COM object written in Visual C++ using MFC. One of the object methods has a signature like this:void Function(BSTR, BSTR, long*)Whenever I call this method