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Scrolling Image

Question: I cannot seem to find any documentation on how to scrollthe contents of a page. Can you help? Answer: The Visual Basic Knowlege Base, which is installed with Visual

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Parsing an HTML File

Question: I am having problems parsing an HTML tag. This entry repeats hundreds of times in this file, but withdifferent names and addresses, etc.I need a routine that will search

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Setting System Time

Question: I am trying to sync my system time with the servers time usingwinsock. but I need an API call that allows you to set your system date and time.

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Displaying Formatted Data

Question: I have defined a field as Double in my Table to store prices. Then I bound my database to a grid.I would like to display the contents of the

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Automatically Converting to Uppercase

Question: I’m trying to use the KeyPress event to automatically uppercase what the user types. How do I do it? Answer: Put the following code into the KeyPress event of

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Moving the Mouse Pointer

Question: Can you tell me if its possible to move the mouse cursor to a specific screen location and then return control of it to the user. If it is

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Binding Across Forms

Question: We want to use multiple VB forms with independent controls bound to independent data controls accessinga single table.In Vb 3.0, we are not able to save the controls dataof

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Event-Oriented Programming

Question: What’s the meaning of “event oriented programing?” Answer: Basically, it means that you program everything as a response to an event, instead of a topdown program where the ordering

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Modifying Startup Project

Question: Is there a way to make VB skip that annoying new project it displays on startup. I work on existing projects 80%+ of the time. It would be even