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Deleting a Record from the DBListBox

Question: How do I delete a record with the data I’ve selectedin a DBListBox (VB4.0). If I use the e.g. Findfirst command I get the message:“The action was cancelled by

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Exiting Windows

Question: How can I make my program totally exit Windows? When the user hits “Quit Windows”, I want Windows to exit. Answer: Use the ExitWindows API function. The declare statement

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Network Logon/Logoff Functions

Question: I am trying to create a VB program to log a useronto a workgroup (from a windows for workgroupsclient) and then map local drives and devices toa network resource.

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Setting Windows Wallpaper

Question: I am trying to use the API call SystemParametersInfo to change the Windows wallpaper. It works great in a Borland C program I wrote, but doesn’t work in VB.

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Replacing OpenTable

Question: We have a Large VB application (code wise) and we are movingthe data from MS access to Sybase using the ODBC driver.Now, after we presented the project’s time tale

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Changing File Extension

Question: not having programmed in any of the BASIC languages, I am wondering if Visual Basic’s string variable is in anyway similar to what a string variable is in C

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Loading a Large Executable

Question: We are experiencing real speed problems with this platformon Windows 95. we are using Pentium 100 machineswith 16megs of ram. The project compiles to about 3megs. The main screens

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Searching for Text

Question: Can you help to create code for searching a word in a text box Answer: Let’s say that Text1 is your search criteria (word) and Text2 is the text

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Creating File Dialogs

Question: I am a beginer in Visual Basic 3.0. I am trying to make a “Text Editor” program.Can you tell mehow to make “save” and “open” menus (using dialog box)I