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Developing Windows CE Apps

Question: Can Visual FoxPro be used to develop applications for Windows CE? Answer: No, Visual FoxPro cannot be used to develop applications for Windows CE. However, you could develop VFP

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Listview Control Colors

Question: I have a number of bitmaps displayed in the Listview control. However the colors are limited and are very different when they are displayed in a graphics program. Is

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Sending Internet E-mail

Question: I am trying to send e-mail from my PowerBuilder app to an e-mail address that is not in my address book; it’s an Internet e-mail address. I do not

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yymmdd-to-yyyymmdd Date Format

Question: Is there a way to automatically convert the date format from yymmdd to yyyymmdd? Answer: Yes there is. Check out the STYLE argument of the CONVERT function, which displays

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Build a simple browser for icons

Winodws uses a special browser to show all icons contained in a file and offers the end user the possibility to choose an icon from it. You can add this

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Quickly clear a portion of an array

The fastest way to clear an array is to ReDim (if the array is dynamic) or Erase it (if the array is Static). However, if you want to clear a

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Highlight the contents of a control on entry

You probably already know that you can highlight the contents of any textbox by adding two lines of code in its GotFocus event: Private Sub Text1_GotFocus() Text1.SelStart = 0 Text1.SelLength

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Suppress TreeView’s tooltips

By default, all TreeView controls whose version number is 4.70 or higher display the text of the node under the cursor if the node itself isn’t completely visible. You can