May 9, 2000

Question: How can I pass a member function of a class as a pointer in C (pointer type expected: void *)? Answer: You can’t pass a pointer to a C++

Question: Using Visual C++ 6.0, I recently attempted to create a structure to implement a data message that my application had to process. The following code segment produced unexpected results

Question: What is the “clear screen” function in C++, and which library is it in? Answer: Standard C and C++ don’t define a function that clears the screen. DOS and

Question: On the Indexes tab of Visual FoxPro Table Designer dialog, you can define a Primary Index. How do I do the same thing through code in a FoxPro program?

Question: What are the pros and cons of creating extended stored procedures? Answer: The pros are that you can implement additional functionality and access data from DLLs from within SQL

Question: From a database-efficiency standpoint, which is better for SQL when inserting new rows into a table: issuing ad hoc SQL statements in the form of “Insert Into…” or using

Question: I have a memo field in a table, which has been scattered to memvar. I need to append a standard statement to the field once the user has completed

Question: How do I print out all of the tables, the fields the tables contain, and the datatype of the fields in my accounting database (for report creation)? I am