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Searching with Multiple Fields

Question: I am developing a s/w with an Access database, using ADO. Now, I want to search a table with multiple columns. As in find method (ADO), it allows only

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West Coast XML Training

Question: I hope you can help me. My company is looking for training classes for XML on the West Coast (preferrably Portland, Seattle, or San Francisco area) I have been

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Adding a New Record to ADO

Question: I know there are two ways to insert a new record. One way is to execute a Insert statement, the other way is use the recordset.AddNew method. In terms

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Add comments to End If and Loop statements

Here’s a little programming tip that will save you hours of headacheslater.Most of us already indent our Ifs, Selects, Do…Loops, etc., and that is good. But suppose you have some

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ASP Pages Loading Slowly

Question: I just created some ASP pages that pull data from a Microsoft Access database. The new ASP pages load a lot slower than their old static HTML counterparts. What

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Saving and restoring all IDE settings

At times you’d like to save all the current settings of the Visual Basic environment and restore them afterwards. For example, you may want to alternate between the MDI environment

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Convert a VB6 project back to VB5

If you load a VB6 project file in the VB5 environment you get a warning, even though the project is correctly loaded. The cause of the warning is a VB6

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Persistent breakpoints

When you close a VB IDE session, VB saves the code but doesn’t save the current set of breakpoints. If you need (non-conditional) breakpoints to persist among sessions, don’t use

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Rebase compiled DLLs

Many VB developers know that they should specify a DLL Base Address value – in the Compile tab of the Project Properties dialog box – that is different from the