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Question: I’m using VB 3.0 to work with databases in the Jet 2.0 format. I expect it will be necessary to add new fields to the database sometime in the

Question: After a structure is defined witha “TYPE” declaration, do you know of a way to directly fillthe structure with data, rather than individually assigingthe elements, or reading from a

Question: I am running my VB application on Novel 3.12 file server. When application is running it shows to 2 instances of programon file server console: for example if application

Question: How do you pause after dialing a phone number ? I want to be able to dial a pager number and then pause 3 -5 seconds before sending the

Question: Is there an API function that will highlight a word in a textbox the way the find command does without using the clipboard? Answer: Set the SelStart property of

Question: I have written a calendar function using the standard grid control as the calendar. The text property of each row/column is set to the correct day within the month

Question: I would like to know how to make an EXE file that I can runit in another computer which does not have Visual Basic Installed. Answer: VB 3 and

Question: What do I have to do to make my application respond to a file-kickstart (double-click)in file-manager? When I select and associate a specific file type with my application it

Question: How can I get the tables within an Access2.0database to show in a list box? The user willspecify a database in a text box and I want themto be