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Question: I have been told that the NT 4.0 Resource Kit has a tool to turn an executable, such as one created in VB5, into a service running on NT

Question: Do you know of any way to find out the connection speed of a site’s visitor and then stream videos at the appropriate bitrate? I’m thinking specifically of RealPlayer.

Question: Is there any way to create a directory from within a PowerBuilder application without using the RUN command? Or is there a way to get the RUN command to

Question: How can I insert text in a textarea at the current cursor position ? I am able to insert it at the end, for example: textarea.value = textarea.value +

You can use the Printer’s scale properties to set margins. Set the properties so the position (0, 0) is mapped to where you want the margins. This code makes the

You can make a form always remain above others, even when it does not have focus. Use this code in a BAS module: #If Win16 Then Declare Sub SetWindowPos Lib

You can use static variables to perform one-time initialization: Private Sub GetValue()Static initialized As Boolean If Not initialized Then ‘ Perform one-time initialization. : initialized = True End If ‘

It is much faster to use explicit object data types instead of generic ones. In this test that simply sets an object’s public variable, the generic object takes more than

If you want to convert an array into a sting, the join method is your best bet. This method takes one parameter and uses it as the separator between each