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Databound Providing Partial Matching

Question: I’m trying to create a DBCombo function on a form which operates similar to MS Access’s ComboBox. As the user types in an entry, character by character, the DBCombo’s

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Getting Available Disk Space

Question: I am looking for a way to determine the numberof bytes on a hard drive. Preferable I’d liketo know the total bytes on a drive and the bytes used

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Limiting Size of Popup Windows

Question: How do you limit the size of a help file definition window? When I program a pop-up window for a definition, its as big as the main Help window

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Creating INI Files

Question: How do I create INI files to meet the common microsoft standard? Answer: INI files can be created with Notepad, or any other plain text editor. Once the file

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Filling from Recordset

Question: How do I fill a combo box with the values from an Access 2.0query or table? I have the compatibility layer installed and everything works except I can’t figure

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Creating Nested Queries

Question: My question is with regards to VB’s ability to handle complexSQL. I have the application I am developing set up in the followingway: I copy the SQL created into

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Dialing a Phone

Question: Can you show me how to open COM1: and dial a phone number using tone dialing? Answer: Try this. This is out of the VB Frequently Asked Questions file.PhoneNumber$

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Using 3.0 Files in 4.0

Question: How do I upgrade my version 3.0 files to version 4.0? Answer: If you open your 3.0 project in any variant of VB 4.0, it will ask you if

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Creating a Help File for an Excel Document

Question: I am trying to include a button in an Excel worksheet that will allow the user to click in to receive help infilling out the spreadsheet form properly. However,