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Question: I have been trying to change settings for the IIS server in order that I can set the flag to allow an out-of-process Active X EXE Server to be

Question: I’m porting a UNIX app to NT; one of the class hierarchies includes something like this: template class base{ // stuff};template class derived : public base, public base{ //

Question: How can I insert an item into different columns? Answer: To insert data into multiple columns, you use the same command as for single columns, except that in your

Question: What function do I use if I want to search a particular data store for the first letter of certain items? For instance, I have this list: olulekamtibookwi If

Not all developers know that Timer controls in compiled VB5 and VB6 applications aren’t stopped by MsgBox statement, so the Timer’s Timer event procedure is regularly executed even when the

You can load several instances of the same form, but VB doesn’t let you determine how many forms of a given class are currently loaded. You can work around this

The usual way to append text to a TextBox or a RichTextBox control is to concatenate the current contents with the new string: Text1.Text = Text1.Text & newString Here is

To programmatically open and close the list portion of a ComboBox control, all you need is sending the CB_SHOWDROPDOWN message to the control. Here is a routine that encapsulate the

Question: I’ve just started using DHTML in Visual Basic 6.0 and have encountered a few glitches. When using ActiveX DHTML, where does the compiled DLL file have to be stored