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Suggested books

Question: Are there any advanced-level PowerBuilder 5.0 books you recommend? Answer: The Powerbuilder 5.0: Secrets of the Masters book is the mostadvanced book I have seen to date.

Changing 2 fields

Question: Hi, I am working on a VB 4.0 project. The project involves changing 2 fields – The date field from 6 digits to 8 digits and zipcode field from

Creating PowerBuilder executable

Question: I want to create an independent PowerBuilder executable. Which DLLs should I include, and how do I package them with my application so that it runs on a computer

Sybase login creation from PB

Question: How can I create a Sybase login from a PowerBuilder front-end application using sp_addlogin? The normal way of executing stored procedures ? for example, declare procname for procedure ?

Checking for File Existance

Question: How do you use VB to check to see if a file exists? Answer: The simplest way to do it is to try opening the file with these lines