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Question: Is there any way I can have a % chance in random events. (say you click on a button and you have a 30% chance of it doing one

Question: How can I make the little folders yellow and the little drives gray in the File List Box? I have tried background color, this just makes the background of

Question: How can I interpret the command line arguments for a .EXEcreated with VB ? Answer: The Command$ variable contains the arguments that were on the command line when a

Question: How do I create a bit-mask in VB? What I wish to do is “read” a binary number where each bit represents a different state for an electrical system.

Question: How do I perform INSERTS, UPDATES andDELETES on existing tables? I have looked up the help andin books but nothing seems to tell me exactly how to do it.

Question: If I apply a picture to a Form’s Picture property, is there a way to clear it out at design time? (Rather than by using LoadPicture “” at run

Question: When designing a menu, how do I get an option (for examplehelp) – to appear on the RIGHT hand side of the menu bar. Answer: To position the Help

Question: How can I open a Word document from my Visual Basic application? Answer: Use the following code sample to do it:Set wordbasic = CreateObject(“word.basic”)wordbasic.fileopen pathname$, 0, 1where:pathname$ is the

Question: I’m looking for help on using the VB 3.0 functions IRR, MIRR and NPV. When I try to use any of them I get Reference to undefined function or