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Question: I have to build a GSM application as written with the SIM toolkit protocol but within the WAP environment. How can I communicate via WML with the SIM card,

Question: How do I animate an image in PowerBuilder? Someone told me I would have to split the gif into frames and then set up a timer. Answer: You can

Question: How do I sort by year a datawindow that already sorts in ascending or descending? (The field is in mm/dd/yy format.) Answer: Create a computed column on the datawindow

Question: How do I activate trim trailing blanks from No to Yes? Answer: The SET ANSI PADDING statement controls the setting you are referring to. When a table is being

Question: What’s the best way to write null values in file, then read them back from file? Answer: If you are using the built-in PowerBuilder functions to read the data

Question: Can I rename a SQL column without making a new table or relying on GUI? Answer: The ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN SYNTAX supports either dropping an existing column or

The stardard method to register and unregister ActiveX component is running the REGSVR32 utility, which forces you to bring up the Start|Run dialog and manually type the command line. A

You can easily download an HTML page by using the Internet Transfer Control (INet). Here’s a reusable routine that uses this control to download the HTML page at the specified

All COM-oriented VB developers know how to register and unregister an ActiveX DLL, using the REGSVR32 utility. However, there is no such an utility to register and unregister a type