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Question: I created the main search screen form SearchScrn (fsNormal) with the ability to create as many new forms on the fly (they are not children of MDI form) as

Question: How can I add resources to an EXE or DLL? I am using Delphi 3 at the moment. For example, I want to use a new Cursor (a self

Question: I want to activate those small popup windows (the ones that appear when you hold your mouse over a program icon in the Taskbar to tell you what appears

Question: I have an app exposing a connector class that returns a reference to a single internal global object. This app runs continuously and I want to display status info

In a high-volume application, there’s a good chance that two separate transactions will both run the SELECT statement and acquire read locks before either can acquire the write lock required

Question: I have a difficult time using PB because I can’t see the code flow. I am an experienced programmer with COBOL, PL/1, and SQL and have taken several PB

Question: Do you know any good Web sites or have any tech tips on creating wizard interfaces? Answer: Creating wizard interfaces is straight-forward when you know how. All a wizard

Question: What is RDBMS? Answer: It’s lingo for “Relational Data Base Management System.”

Question: I have a mailing list with one record per person, but I want to mail to only one person per household. How can I select just the first record