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Question: I am writing a Visual Basic application that will require the user to enter a password. I have a inputbox set up for the user to enter the password.
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.
Question: I am having a problem that I hope has not been answered herebefore. I am experiencing different results when I run a program than I do when I use
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
Question: I have visual basic 2.0 Hopefully not for long. If I make a button that does a funtion like this. n = n + 1 print nit gives me
Question: I’m trying to use the KeyPress event to automatically uppercase what the user types. How do I do it? Answer: Put the following code into the KeyPress event of
Question: What is the best method to use for updating an Access 2 database from Visual Basic? I am a bit confused aboutthe methods presented such as 1) VB Data
Question: In procedure, I used statement like this:ds.FindFirst “fulldate = ’95-10-31′” ‘ds is DynaSet variablebut always it fails, and ds.NoMatch Value is True(-1).What’s wrong with this? Please help me. Answer: