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Setting Cursor to End

Question: Is there a way to put the cursor at the end of the text in a text box? I use .SetFocus to put the cursor in a multi-line text

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Putting Buttons on PictureBox

Question: My question is that I’m trying to put a command buttons in a picture box on MDI form (it’s a text editor). But it always keeps on givin’ me

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Creating a Status Bar

Question: How do I put a status bar at the bottom of an MDI parent form like in Word for Windows.Whenever I place a 3d panel on the form it

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Using a Database vs. Random Access Files

Question: Should I use a database for storing info, rather than random access files? The info I need to store could be rather large. I also will need much more

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Expanding Functionality

Question: Our firm would like to integrate our Configuration Management tool into VB. I understand some vendors outside of Microsoft have suceeded in adding links to their product via a

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Computing Future Value

Question: I am trying to make a financial calculator that will compute Future Value,but I don’t know how to write code for compounded interest. Answer: I believe you want to

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Getting Started

Question: We have a big complete hospital system written in ClipperWe had looked at VO, but that does not seem to be the way to goWe will now concentrate on

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Including Single Quotes in Queries

Question: How do you include a single quotation mark in a query?Example:“Select * From BATCH Where BATCH.NAME = ‘O’Connel’” Answer: Simply replace the single quote with two single quotes together.

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Closing a Database

Question: I have made a program to use a database, and will makea copy of this file to a disk. The problem is that Ican’t make a copy of the