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Question: I need execute some commands to rename/copy files. What is the best method of performing this type of function.I do not want to fire off a batch file, but
Question: What all do I need to know to create a screen saver in Visual Basic? Answer: Windows screensavers are easy and fun to write in Visual Basic, but there
Question: When I try to unload some forms with database controls on them while in the Form_Load event, VB tries to show the form again and issues the statement ‘Object
Question: I need a way to make a grid/table that would support headers and cell data spanning multiple rows as wellas multiple columns. Any ideas? Answer: VideoSoft has a product
Question: How do you limit the size of a help file definition window? When I program a pop-up window for a definition, its as big as the main Help window
Question: How can get the Text contained in a specified Cell in DBGrid? Answer: If you set the Row and Col properties first, you can then look at the “Text”
Question: I made a copy of a project for a new application. The problem is that each time a message box is displayed it has the old project name as
Question: I am looking for a way to determine the numberof bytes on a hard drive. Preferable I’d liketo know the total bytes on a drive and the bytes used
Question: It is easy to use control arrays to load controls inside a container. Now the problem is I do not know how many containers e.g., groups of option buttions,
Question: How do I center a form on the monitor regardless of monitor resolution? Answer: The Screen object contains the properties of the current display. In the Form_Load event, you
Question: My VB program produces as output, paper reports such as Income Statements and Balance Sheets. How do we get the numbers to print as they should, that is, dollars
Question: We have a big complete hospital system written in ClipperWe had looked at VO, but that does not seem to be the way to goWe will now concentrate on
Question: Can you suggest ways to delay sending keystrokes to the external application? I’ve tried inserting ‘For-Next’ loops of different durations but without success. Answer: Try a timer control. That
Question: VB reports the wrong number of records from an Access database with the RecordCount property. The same query to dBase files reports the correct number of records. What is
Question: I use version 4.0 and the school I go to uses version 3.0. I use windows 95 and they use windows 3.1. I know you can convert a 3.0
Question: I am new to Visual Basic and wanted to know how to write those nifty little help files. Answer: Help files are fairly easy to create. All you need
Question: Could you tell me how to clear a MaskEdit Field? Answer: To clear a masked edit field’s text, you first have to set the mask to “”, then set
Question: How do I get four simple .bmp pictures to animate?Could you maybe give me an example? What the picturesare is a green scare then it would turn into a
Question: I’m in the process of refining a program I wrote. What I need to do is find the user’s mail directory on a Network server. To do this, the
Question: My application makes use of different forms.I call forms by ‘hide’ the current form and ‘show 1’ to showthe next one.When I want to return to the previous form
Question: How do you save information?Say a made a game, and i wanted high scores, how do I want to do that? Answer: You could do it a number of
Question: I am trying to design a telephone directory and am unable to set the 2 dimensional arrayas an unknown number. How do I do this? Answer: The best way
Question: If i declare a new form as an object variable,Dim NewForm as Formset NewForm=form2NewForm.ShowOnce I have a one of those forms, how do refer to that particularinstance of the
Question: I have a form containing a Picture Box control.This control currently contains a bitmap i.e. the pictureproperty contains a filename. How do I change the picture property back to
Question: I am using Visual Basic as my front-end tool to read an oracle 7 database residing on an oracle network. I have completed the connection stage. I am using
Question: I have heard a vicious rumour going round that any programs I write in VB 3.0 using Access 2.0 will only be able to run on computers that have
Question: How do I issue a disk format command from myVB code? Do I simply shell to DOS? Answer: That’s what I would recommend. Format is a .COM file, so
Question: A control record value for next_order_num will contain the value “00009998” when you first get the control record file. Each time you write the next_order_num field back into the
Question: I define a user-defined type as follow..Type Complex Re As Double Im As DoubleEnd TypeI created a function like this…Function CompAdd( a As Complex, b As Complex ) As
Question: I have a number of objects, say shapes, which I have named s1, s2 , s3, s4 , s5.I would like to refer to the shapes fillcolor property witha
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We all know about the function overloading feature in C++, which allows us to have the same name given for a function with different signatures
y default, the .NET Framework includes a number of classes that convey information about exceptions generated by the application. Whenever an error occurs in a
lain old Java object (POJO)-based architectures and lighter-weight development models using tools such as Spring and Hibernate have gained considerable acceptance in the enterprise Java
icrosoft Expression Blend is a new full-featured design tool for creating highly-interactive and sophisticated Windows application user interfaces using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). With Expression
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ome of the most interesting features of modern web sites are based on Geographical Information System (GIS) technologies. GIS techniques essentially give you a way
reating reports is one of the most common things developers are asked to do when building a typical business application. Businesses want to know how
rom 1981 through 1986, I taught high school. I was fresh out of college (OK, a semester of engineering grad school which “didn’t take”), didn’t
icrosoft has officially entered the space of rich interactive browser development with a new product called Silverlight. To better understand what Silverlight is you simply