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You can use the SysInfo control, distributed with VB5 and VB6, to write applications that can sport the Windows logo and that can behave intelligently when a system setting changes.

The SysInfo control lets you resize your forms to take any taskbar into account. For example, you might want to move and resize your form so it always appears at

Question: I work for a VAR selling a SQL physician pratice management software product. My competition is a program that uses Foxmed Pro. What advantages does each product have, if,

Question: How can I freeze the left-most column in a multicolumn grid? Normally when you scan records to the right side of the grid, you lose the information on the

Question: I have a Visual FoxPro 5.0a application running on Windows NT 4.0 workstation on all machines. Most of the stores have at least two workstations using peer-to-peer networking. The

Question: is there a way I can programmatically copy directories from one drive to another? Answer: The easiest way to do it is by using the File Scripting objects exposed

Question: Let’s say I have a table (table1) with 100 unique ID numbers, each belonging to one of five categories. On another table (table2) I have a whole lot of

Question: I am creating an ActiveX DLL and I want to be able to fire events that can be cancelled similiarly to cancelling the Unload event for a form. however,

Question: I am trying to hide my application from the task manager in Windows NT 4.0. I have tried registering the app as a service, but this appears to have