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New Data-Handling Features

Question: What are the improvements of VB5 to VB4, especially as to how to handle the data, data files, database? Answer: Data Files, using features such as Open/Write/Read, are unchanged

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SQL Date/Time Table Selection

Question: I have a database with a field set to Date/Time.My project has a variable that is of type Date.In a text box it displays 04/21/97. I cannot get the

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Global Arrays

Question: I have a simple 2 form program with an array spanning both forms (i.e.MyArray(0),..MyArray(3) are on form 1 and MyArray(4),..MyArray(6) are on form 2). How can I declare MyArray

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Data Retrieval to a ListBox

Question: I need to know how to retrieve multiple data and put it in a listbox. This data is also indexed to another database by it customer id. I can

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Licensing of DAO in VB

Question: I intended to use DAO in my application, but I wonder whether is there anylicense issue if I written an application in VB and distributed it orresell it? Answer:

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Visual Basic 5.0 VBW Files

Question: I have noticed that each for project I create there is a file with a vbw extension. I found this type file mentioned in VB Help as a Visual

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VB5.0 – Compiling

Question: I have recently created a program in VB5.0 on a WIN 95 system… on that system the program works great. Now I want to make my program accessable on

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VB4 – VB5 Compatibility Issues

Question: I’ve wanted to upgrade my VB4 pro to VB5 ent. for a month or so now, but after monitoring various VB newsgroups for a few weeks I’m glad I

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Creating Win 3.1 Applications

Question: Should I upgrade to VB5.0. I currently am using VB4.0 to make a simple program to run on win3.1 and win95. I want to distribute this program on diskette