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Question: What all do I need to know to create a screen saver in Visual Basic? Answer: Windows screensavers are easy and fun to write in Visual Basic, but there

Question: What steps do I take to open/ retrieve a particular help topic (usingContext string/ID) of a Help File? Answer: This code, using the CommonDialog control, could be put behind

Question: The program I am writing has two menu items for displaying say, autoexec.bat and config.sys respectively. I would like to make it so thatthey only need to call a

Question: Is it possible to bind a cell in a grid with a database field (as we can do for text boxes and some other controls)? Answer: In VB3, the

Question: How do I create the VB equivalent of the command belowDIR C: /S /B >MYFILE.LSTI need this routine for a program that keeps track of installedand removed files. Answer:

Question: I have an input file whose structure consists of a code forforeground color, a code for background color, and some text.I’d like to display the text in a scrollable

Question: I have forms that I want to load, unload, and then load again. I use Show and Unload to do this. After I unload the form and try to

Question: How do I go about creating a RICH TEXT FIELD in VB ? Answer: This problem has been fixed in VB4…they included a rich textbox control. However, I don’t

Question: A colleague wants to create a DLL using Borland C++ to callfrom Visual Basic 3.0 but she keeps getting an error message”Sub or Function Not Defined”.Do you know of