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Inserting Control Characters

Question: How do I insert carriage return (Chr(13)) and line feed (Chr (10)) in a text box at run-time? Answer: Just use the ampersand (&) and add them to the

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ODBC Slowdown

Question: I am trying to create a “proof of concept” Visual Basic Project.In it, I am using a VB front end to access and maintain data in anORACLE 7 database

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Converting to DAO 3.0

Question: I have a Huge front end to an Access database. The front end was created in VB3.0, I recently upgraded to 4.0, it states that the references should work

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Clearing Text Property

Question: Is there any way to clear a combo box without it’s Textproperty being set to null? Answer: As far as I know and have tried, the only way to

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Building an Open File Dialog

Question: I am a beginner programmer with VB 3.0 Standard Edition. I am not very familiar with the Common Dialog VBX (CMDIALOG.VBX). I am designing a Recipe Book program and

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Method Comparison

Question: What is the best method to use for updating an Access 2 database from Visual Basic? I am a bit confused aboutthe methods presented such as 1) VB Data

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Data Access Errors

Question: I’ve developed an application using VB4.0, but I can’t distribute it because the installed application breaks on any reference to dbEngine object.In my machine the application runs perfectly, but

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Command Line Switches

Question: I have a formless VB exe program that creates VB modules(.bas) and saves them to disk.Is there a way of having my program start VB passing my module name

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Equivalent to fork()?

Question: Is there any command in visual basic which is similar to fork command in c? Answer: It’s not exactly the same, but the Shell statement will allow you to