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Searching for Apostrophes

Question: When using VB4 and the Jet Engine with Access 2.0, I do I execute an SQL query that searches for a string that contains the apostrophe ? Answer: If

Opening and Reading a File

Question: Can you please send me the code to open a file using the common dialog box – not just the code to open the dialog box but to actually

Moving Controls on Screen

Question: I was wondering how you can move pictures and controls from one end of a screen (that part I know) and then have it go back or down? Answer:

Displaying Help

Question: How do you use the Common Dialog Box help. When I set all of the parameters and tried it, it didn’t display my helpfile. Answer: Did you set the

Selecting File from File List Box

Question: I put a drive box, a directory list box, and a file list box on the form, with the intention of being able to select an *.ico file from

Entering Large Amounts of Text

Question: I have a problem with writing text in Visual Basic. I would like to enter several hundred pages of text into my program, Any ideas of how to do

Opening MAK Files with VB 4.0

Question: In working with VB4 I find that if I double click on a project file (.mak or .vbj) the system always starts upVB4 in 16bit mode. I am wondering

Updating Bound Controls

Question: In my program from a combo list one can select an item (that happens to be a table in an MDB file)so that the DATA1.recordsource matches the item selected

Dynamic Runtime Creation

Question: Is it possible to add elements to a control array of an object (ex. SSPanel) in a module that is notthe form’s module. My goal is to be able

Closing DOS Window When Completed

Question: I have a real problem that in windows 95 when a dos shell is finished it does not close. I use these dos shells when interfacing to old equipment

Creating Win95 Explorer-like Dialogs

Question: Are there common dialogs in Win95 like file open/save? I wish to put in my apps the ability to use long filenames which Win95 supports. Answer: Here is the

Putting Controls on a TabStrip

Question: The number of Tabs are determined at run time. Control Array of text boxes are established on Tab 0 at design time. Each tab is to contain the same

Modifying Startup Project

Question: Is there a way to make VB skip that annoying new project it displays on startup. I work on existing projects 80%+ of the time. It would be even

Searching on Numerical Fields

Question: When using the FindFirst method I seem to be able to locate only records which are defined as strings using a variable in the search pattern. When I am

Disappearing Controls

Question: At apparently random times, some controls disappear frommy form. Not all of the controls disappear. Minimizingand then restoring the form, as well as clicking onthe ‘invisible’ controls, brings them

Creating Dynamic SQL

Question: I’m trying to develop a dynamic query handler within VB that will prompt users for parameters as set up in the parameter list in MS Access (v1.1). I wish

Storing Pictures in a DLL

Question: I found a vbx which allows me to place icons or bitmapson a command button. How can I store these images in onefile and read them in like an

Monitoring Port

Question: Do you know if there is a Win API or Winsock call that will tell me when I’ve connected/disconnected to myinternet provider. Answer: What you might want to do

Deleting a Directory Tree

Question: I want to delete and entire directory tree. I do not knowhow big the directory is, how many sub-dirs that it has, etc.I am not using a form and

VB4 GetPrivateProfileString Problems

Question: I am trying to use GetPrivateProfileString to access INI entries in a INI file using Visual Basic 4.0. Whenever I try to run my program it produces the error

Using Me Object

Question: What is the different between using Me and FormActualName when accessing a form’s property or to pass the FRM to a subprogram.Is it ok to use ME all the

Accessing Financial Function Library

Question: I’m looking for help on using the VB 3.0 functions IRR, MIRR and NPV. When I try to use any of them I get Reference to undefined function or

Combining VB with C

Question: Can I write a module in Ansi C language and compile it together with a VB program? If cannot, how can I combine these two modules? Answer: You can’t

Using Counters

Question: I am designing a database as a correspondance register.Each bit of inwards and outwards mail is given a unique number. At present I have set up a counter field

Showing Currency Values

Question: I am using VB as a front-end to an Access 2.0 database. Some of the fields in my Access db are of type currency. However, VB only displays them

Flushing I/O Buffer

Question: Is there a way within VB to flush information sent to a file? Normally, information is buffered and not sentto the file until the buffer size is exceeded or

Allowing Network Usage

Question: How do I turn a single pc VB3 application using MS Access2 into an app that’s capable of running on a network? Answer: Really, the basic thing you have

Determining Screen Resolution with Screen Object

Question: I would like to be able to determine what resolution is seton a particular system so that my application opens up toa correct scale. Answer: Look at the Screen

Repairing a Corrupted File

Question: Not knowing that my hard disk was almost full, I tried to load a VB MAK file that I had created in VB3. When I did, a message said

Binding Across Forms

Question: We want to use multiple VB forms with independent controls bound to independent data controls accessinga single table.In Vb 3.0, we are not able to save the controls dataof

Insert an XML Schema into an XQuery Query

Use the following code to insert an XML Schema into an XQuery query. The following code assumes that the XML Schema is: file:///C://Data_Local//xml//docs//AirWings_xslt_xmlschema.xsd and the

Show() vs. ShowDialog() in .NET

The form class’ ShowDialog method functions differently than its Show method. Here’s how: ShowDialog‘s returned value can be used to determine how the user closed

Simplifying RDFa Notation

Resource Description Framework (RDF) is not the world’s most beloved standard. That it is used most often in fairly obscure applications for handling such fundamental

Using High-resolution Timers

tandard C++ offers a rather limited number of functions for accurate time measurement: clock() gives you a granularity of up to a thousandth of a

Override Base Methods in a Form

If one class is inheriting from another class, a quick, easy way to find the available overrides is through .NET’s IntelliSense. Simply type “override” in

JSP and the Introspection Process

The introspection process allows the JSP engine to populate a JavaBean with the values provided by a client through an HTML form. //when the names