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Question: How do I create a bit-mask in VB? What I wish to do is “read” a binary number where each bit represents a different state for an electrical system.
Question: How can I use Access 7.0 databases within my Visual Basic 4.0 Professional Application?Everytime I try to open such a database, I always get error messages. Answer: I’m guessing
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Question: Is it possible to change the MDICHILD property atruntime? I will give birth to your children if you have an answer. Answer: Well, I have an answer, but you’re
Question: We are experiencing real speed problems with this platformon Windows 95. we are using Pentium 100 machineswith 16megs of ram. The project compiles to about 3megs. The main screens
Question: I am new to VB programming and have noticed thatthere are a lot of properties for an item that are not listedin the property box (e.g. clear,delete item,add item,select,etc)Is
Question: I am working on a system with Windows ’95 and Office for Windows ’95. This includes Access 7.0. How can I get VB 3.0 to recognize databases I have
Question: After a structure is defined witha “TYPE” declaration, do you know of a way to directly fillthe structure with data, rather than individually assigingthe elements, or reading from a
Question: I would like to read audio CD information directly from VB.At this point I have no idea how it is done, but as I want to writea database program,
Question: How can I make the little folders yellow and the little drives gray in the File List Box? I have tried background color, this just makes the background of
Question: A VB form displays select financial numbers from an Access DB. The user can build a calculation. If the arithmetic operation is stored as text in the DB, how
Question: Is there any command in visual basic which is similar to fork command in c? Answer: It’s not exactly the same, but the Shell statement will allow you to
Question: Is there an advantage to using a control array instead of using x number of labels, textboxes, etc ? Answer: There are several advantages to using control arrays. First
Question: I’m working with Visual Basic and Access 1.1. Currently my program uses two tables (tblrep and tblsales). The common field being tblrep.id = tblsales.id. The first form of the
Question: I have written a testing program that writes results to a grid.How do I write the grid to disk so that changes can be addedfrom testing session to testing
Question: I need to place multiple option buttons on a form. I alsoneed to be able to have two buttons selected at all times.I can do this with multiple frame
Question: I am using VB together with Access. What I want to do is to include photo into my form. In Access table, I declare thisfield as an OLE field
Question: What it’s the correct SQl Statement to search an access database by a numeric field? I keep getting an invalid type error when I try to run the application.
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Question: I don’t know how to access individual characters in a string.ie. accessing single elements in an array of characters.Each time I try I keep getting Type mismatch. Answer: You
Question: I have a formless VB exe program that creates VB modules(.bas) and saves them to disk.Is there a way of having my program start VB passing my module name
Question: I have a copy of data widgets from sheridan sware and am using the SSDataGrid provided. All i want to do is insert data in the grid at a
Question: I’m using the 3D Panel in my application. When I setits background coulor to light grey, it looks fine onmy workstation but it’s white in any other workstations.That’s true
Question: Is there a way to put the cursor at the end of the text in a text box? I use .SetFocus to put the cursor in a multi-line text
Question: Can I get the name of the procedure that an error has occurred in?For example, I would like to send my error to a form that containsthe error number,
Question: Can one call a stored procedure or function in oracle 7through odbc from visual basic? This might be a questionfor an oracle user group, so if you know where
Question: I have a List with names and addresses from a database.I want to have the list as shown below.Mr. Smith Street 10Mr. Andersson Street 25I’ve tried aligning them by
ometimes you find yourself thinking, “I wonder if I can make my application do this…?” The target of your thoughts might not immediately seem to
ecently, Google released its robust “Google Data API” with little fanfare. In fact, if you aren’t an avid tech blog reader or didn’t go to
ich Internet Application or RIAs are all the rage in application development circles now. How do you make web applications behave like more traditional desktop
icrosoft recently took WPF/E (which stood for Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere) out of the labs and released it as Silverlight, a new technology that lets
ich Internet Applications (RIAs) represent not only an established, but a rapidly expanding, segment of software development. Although descriptions of RIA abound, most people agree
n addition to the XAML and JavaScript combination supported in Silverlight 1.0, this Silverlight 1.1 Alpha client also supports managed code written in a language
ver since the Internet emerged, developers and the user community have tried tirelessly to lend Internet application interfaces the same interactivity their desktop applications offered.
his is an exciting time for CoDe Magazine and EPS Software Corp.! For the last year or so, we have been building a brand new,
n organized system for maintaining and delivering configuration information is an essential component of any enterprise software system. For small enterprises with only a few
pass along this cautionary tale, just in case, like me, you had considered a “change in life”. I’ve always enjoyed broad changes to technical infrastructure
n episode 217, Paul Randal from the Microsoft SQL Server team talked to us about CHECKDB, a built-in tool to check the integrity of SQL
ommerce occurs in Second Life whenever money changes hands. Money, in Second Life, is the Linden Dollar. Although the Linden Dollar is not an actual