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Use Y2K-Compliant Date Formats

The C++ Standard Library uses the ANSI C date and time library. Fortunately, the functions and data structures are Y2K compliant, so legacy code that was written nearly 30 years

Repair Your Toolbox in Visual InterDev 6

The Visual InterDev 6 toolbox is full of handy design-time controls and HTML shortcuts. As you customize the toolbox, you run a risk of accidentally deleting a tool such as

Make Web Visitors Use the Front Door

When you design a Web page using frames, you expect visitors to start at the address of the frameset holder, for example, default.htm. However, people who are linking from a

Use OLE Automation to Print Access Reports

You can print canned reports in an Access database from VB in different ways. I created this routine to print any report with any criteria or filter from any database.

Find Out Who is Connected to an Access Database

If you’re creating a Jet-based multiuser database system, you’ll sometimes need to know who is currently connected to the shared database. To get this information in situations where you don’t

Implementing COM Interfaces in VB

You should not derive one user-defined COM interface from another user-defined interface when it comes to implementing COM interfaces in VB. A Visual Basic class can inherit from an interface,