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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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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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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

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REMark out a group of lines

VB5 and VB6 environments include a pair hidden commands that let you remark and unremark a group of statements. These commands are hidden in the sense that they can be

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A better beep

If you aren’t satisfied with the standard Beep command (who is?) you can use the Beep API function instead, that lets you control both the frequency (in Hertz) and the