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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

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

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

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

Question: In the following code, how do I get the address of the first character of str in the function discard? discard(string *name){ //..}int main(){ string str; cin >> str;

Question: We want to timestamp transactions on an application that is not yet using a client/server database. Is there a Windows 2000 API that programmatically gets the server time? Answer:

Question: Can I use LIKE across all columns in a single table without having to name each column specifically? Answer: You cannot do this as a direct query against a

Question: Why does a simple program such as the following produce compilation errors? #include#includeusing namespace std;int main(){ ostream_iterator os(cout); vector vi(3,0); os=vi[0]; os++; os=vi[1]; return 0;} I use the Microsoft

Question: Can I set up a live ODBC link from SQL Server 7 to an Informix (Standard Engine) database? Answer: You can set up your Informix server as a linked