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Calling a Form

Question: How, in a database application, to use a table for selection byusers to call a certain form. For example, I could have a field with thename of the table

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The difference of FileLen() and Len()

Question: What are the difference between FileLen() & Len()? When checking the file size making sure it is not exceeding 32KB in the text box, should I use FileLen() or

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32-bit executable/controls

Question: I have a 16-bit win3.1 version of of a project. We recentlyreceived user requested thesoftware as win95 users.How can I distribte theprogram w/o having to developa program in 32-bit.

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Retrieving a Drive’s Serial Number

Question: I want to get the serial number from my hard drive and my floppy disk drive. How can I do this? Answer: The GetVolumeInformation API call is used to

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Year 2000 Compliance

Question: Is Visual Basic Year 2000 compliant? Answer: All versions of Visual Basic support four digit dates. However, it is up to the programmer to support four digit dates. This

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(file)listview

Question: How can I show the tables in an Interbase database in listview or filelist? (like the database explorer) Answer: The only way to do that is as follows:1) Create

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Reading Bitmap Files

Question: I need to read and analyze the *.bmp file. How I can do it without PictureBox? Answer: In order to open the file, you need to use the Open

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window.open() method

Question: HI! I hope you can help me. I’m opening a window with the window.open() method, and for the life of me, I can’t get it to be the size