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Migration from VB 4.0 to VB 5.0

Question: I am currently using VB 4.0 Entreprise and will migrate to VB 5.0 Pro at home (I am still using this version at work).I would like to be able

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Documenting the contents of a .PBL file

Question: Is there a third-party tool (or a functionalitynative to PB) with which I can print the *entire*contents of a .PBL file, preferablyin a way that’s meaningful? I have in

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Parse string to float or double

Question: Is there a command Float.parseNumbers(s) that returns a float? Answer: Sure, parseInt(s) is simply: Integer temp = Integer.valueOf(s); int x = temp.intValue();which has an equivalent for floats Float temp

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Exception specifications

Question: I recently learned that the C++ draft standard requires that an implementation not perform any static checking on a function’s exception specification (aside from inherited virtual functions and function