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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Question: Can I use 16 bit .DLLs in VB 4.0 32 bit? Answer: No, you can’t. In order to access it, you’ll either have to recompile the DLL (and possibly
Question: Is there a way to keep VB4 from dimming the text in disabled controls boxes (i.e. Text and Labelcontrols)? I would Like to use my own Colors forText areas
Question: I have a series of text boxes, any subset of which can be used for input of numerical data, followed by a command box to “compute” from that input
Question: How can I make the combo box drop its list easily? Answer: On form load, do combo.additem , until allitems are placed into the combo list.To cause the combo
Question: I am a new VB programmer. I have been researchinginto VB programming using soom custom VBX’s for TCP/IPtype of stuff. I need to know if there is a book
Question: I’d like to create a floating window that has a small titlebar,like the VB toolbox window, for instance. In the VB FAQ,it says to see the sample program in
Question: How can I open a Word document from my Visual Basic application? Answer: Use the following code sample to do it:Set wordbasic = CreateObject(“word.basic”)wordbasic.fileopen pathname$, 0, 1where:pathname$ is the
Question: How do you command a button to go to another form, I put like follows:Sub Double_Click ( ) GoTo form2 EndEnd Sub OR Sub Double_Click ( ) Load form2
Question: I understand the basic concepts of computer programming including event driven apps. I have been browsing various Visual Basic sites looking for self teaching book recommendations. Since I’m new
Question: I’ve developed some applications on vb3 using some3rd-party VBXs, I now want to transport thoseapplications to vb4 for enhancement. Do anyutilities exist to convert those VBXs to OCXs? Answer:
Question: I am using VB 3.0 professional edition. I would like toimplement cut/copy/paste on a toolbar. My form has multipletext boxes. If the user wants to paste to a field,
Question: What is the fields object of the GetChunk method?I am trying to access a large (several meg) flatfixed record (160 ascii bytes per record) database and I thought the
Question: How do you copy entire directory structures with VB3, I’veread the -ONE- newsgroup article but it just lists them. Answer: Have you tried shelling to an XCOPY statement? It
hope you’ve been following the growing interest in semantic technology and reading the articles on DevX’s Semantic Zone, and feel ready to try out semantic
hen you want to build a simple form—something with a set of fields and perhaps a table of repeating fields—it’s easy to pick up InfoPath
ource code reviews and inspections have long been considered economical methods for rooting out functional and design flaws in code even before applications make their
ASP.NET AJAX (formerly called Atlas) is a new free framework from Microsoft designed to let developers add Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) features to ASP.NET
To call an SAP function module from a Java application, you first need SAP JCo (Java Connector); you can download it from SAP’s site, though
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
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
ow many software tasks DON’T involve querying data? Answer: very few. Developers work all the time with database data, XML data, .NET DataSets, collections, lists,
isual Studio provides convenient design-time wizards to define static database connection strings that you can store in your settings files. Storing connection strings in configuration
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
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
f you’ve got a Windows Mobile device with Bluetooth connectivity, why not write your own PowerPoint clicker application so that you can use it in