December 8, 1999

Question: Often I place a Break Point in a Function or Procedure for Debugging purposes.How I can find the immediate calling procedure?Or, better how I can find all the previous

Question: When opening an ADO connection, how do I specify that it use the SQL Server OLEDB provider with a DSN? Answer: Here’s the connection string you should use. Be

Question: How would I get a different picture to pop up every 3 seconds in a different position? Answer: It’s pretty simple, actually: Make a form with an image/picturebox control

Question: I have an Access 97 database with an OLE Type field containing bitmaps loaded with the LoadPicture() function. This works fine and the images turn up as “Bitmap Image”

Question: I am an extreme newbie with VB. How do I change the caption of a label to the value of a textbox? Answer: Substitute the name of the Label

Question: I have been using Visual Basic to manipulate databases for some time now and I consider myself skilled at it. The next challenge presented is to establish a connection

Question: When a control has focus, is there some way to determine which control had focus just before it? Answer: Nope, there isn’t any way to do that. But, I

Question: After I compile my DLL in VB and run the component through IIS, I cannot recompile the DLL and I get a file locking error. I am using VB6

Question: I get the folling error message when I try to run my code: Compile Error: Procedure declaration does not match description of event or procedure having the same name.