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Connecting Network Drives

Question: When I issue the command ‘NET USE’ in msdos, I get a message that a specific drive is disconnected, how can I connect that drive in VB? If I

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Providing Multiple Colors

Question: I having trouble using strings and text. I am writing a document creation system and all the text in between the “” char. would be red. All other text

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Closing a Data Control

Question: I am using the data control through the Standard Version of Visual Basic 4.0. The data control is linked to a table in our database and when I try

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Sharing Data Between Forms

Question: I have a VB app that uses multiple forms. On the first form, I entercustomer information. The other forms calculate the cost of my services tomy customer. I would

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Multiple Simultaneous Table Inserts

Question: I am programming a multiple table database and can’t figure out to link each table together so that when a person is posting data to one table that the

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Printing Records

Question: I am writing a database program and I am using the JET DATABASE ENGINEI would like to know how to print records out of the DATABASE to my printer.

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Ensuring Single Instance

Question: I have a requirement to only allow a copy of an application to be executed once.If someone tries to execute the app a second time, I want to give

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Opening Access 2.0 DBs

Question: I am trying to connect my MS ACCESS 2.0 Database to the WWW viaa VB-CGI-Script. I figured out, how to transfer data from a HTML-Form to my VB-programm but

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Comparing Date-typed Variables

Question: How do I compare dates in VB? Also, how do I store dates into Access? I can’tget them into the right format. Answer: For comparison of dates, look up