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Getting the Address of a Function

Question: In VB, I can use the function AddressOf. It is the return address of function WNDPROC. Is there a similar function in PowerBuilder? Answer: In PowerBuilder you cannot get

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Moving from Fox for DOS to Visual FoxPro

Question: I would like some Visual FoxPro application as a starting guide in VFP 6. I’m finding it hard to add commands using a form. For example, I want to

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Porting from Oracle to Informix

Question: We have an existing application, which has been developed using ASP. The database being used is Oracle 8. Now, for a different customer, we want to port this application

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Building Crosstabs

Question: How do I build crosstabs in Visual FoxPro? Answer: Visual FoxPro has a wizard that helps you create a Crosstab query. From the Wizards submenu on the Tools menu,

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Patch for Divide-By-Zero Error

Question: We are getting a divide-by-zero error running FoxPro for Windows 2.5 on a Novell server on the network on an NT workstation. Can I use the patch in version

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Creating Public Folders

Question: The department I am in would like to have a kind of “posting” center for questions or a kind of “discussion thread” area only accessible to our department. We

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Message Lost in the Information Store

Question: A user tried to move an e-mail from the Inbox to another folder, and then clicked on his mailbox. The message disappeared from the Inbox, but he couldn’t find

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Visual InterDev Hangs

Question: When connecting to an Informix database using Visual InterDev and SCO Retriever 32 ODBC, I can see tables and column names but when I try to look at data,

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Informix Stored Procedures to VB

Question: I am returning a resultset from an Informix Stored Procedure to VB6 via ODBC and ADO. Is there any way of returning the field names? At this point I