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Today, 04:23 AM

2kaud replied to a thread What happened here? in General Discussion / Chit Chat

Mostly down to MS IMO. Hopefully TwinBasic will be the beginning of a new age of enlightenment.... :)

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Today, 04:22 AM

Krool replied to a thread Command Button Width Based On Caption and Font in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

No. Not from scratch. In my code the DC was 0&. It's just to get the metrics!

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Today, 03:23 AM

TysonLPrice replied to a thread What happened here? in General Discussion / Chit Chat

Don't forget there is still a lot of VB 6.0 applications running in the business world. It is being converted but mainframe COBOL is still around...

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Today, 01:29 AM

Thierry69 replied to a thread DAO v ADO v SQL, & Scalability Discussion (for my sanity, and possibly Sam's as well) in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

On My side, I used ADO since more than 20 years. Easier if I want to change the FB. And recently (2 years), I switch my ADO code to my ADOFast class...

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Today, 01:08 AM

.paul. replied to a thread VS 2019 How can we APPROPRIATELY Size-Fit image into Picturebox ? in Visual Basic .NET

You mean keeping aspect ratio? Dim img As New Bitmap() ‘ 12.5% img =new Bitmap(img, img.Width * 0.125, img.Height * 0.125)

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Today, 12:47 AM

Zvoni replied to a thread DAO v ADO v SQL, & Scalability Discussion (for my sanity, and possibly Sam's as well) in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Right, joining in. 1) DAO a) As already mentioned: tightly bound to MDB. If you want to access other backends, there is this weird dbUseODBC or...

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Today, 12:03 AM

nkvb replied to a thread Special Signs in a Button.text? in Visual Basic .NET

I suppose it is Mars Symbol ASCII Reference ' Symbol ? 9794 2642 ♂ ...

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Yesterday, 11:26 PM

marsias replied to a thread Special Signs in a Button.text? in Visual Basic .NET

To appear in "Readable" Form, as is, you can nearly see it. BTW: I can put a PictureBox which holds the sign over the Button, but they are 20...

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Yesterday, 11:03 PM

Niya replied to a thread What happened here? in General Discussion / Chit Chat

This place is primarily about Visual Basic. Python has supplanted VB as the go-to, easy-to-learn language of modern times. BASIC is a dinosaur, and...

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Yesterday, 10:55 PM

Niya replied to a thread stack increasing question in Visual Basic .NET

You're using .Net, a modern development environment so there is no need to write your own sorting algorithms. There are all kinds of ways to sort in...

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Yesterday, 10:46 PM

jmcilhinney replied to a thread Special Signs in a Button.text? in Visual Basic .NET

Are you trying to say that you expect the symbol to appear bold but it doesn't? If not, what are you trying to say? Please be specific.

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Yesterday, 10:07 PM

wes4dbt replied to a thread Israel? in World Events

Obviously Israel didn't care who was killed. They've really turned to terrorism.

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Yesterday, 08:00 PM

KFrosty started a thread VB6 Weave Preview Editor in CodeBank - Visual Basic 6 and earlier

This is a remake of an earlier version . I'm using the ShapeEx control by Eduardo. Sure makes the patterns look better. See what you .

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Yesterday, 06:29 PM

VB6 Programming replied to a thread DAO v ADO v SQL, & Scalability Discussion (for my sanity, and possibly Sam's as well) in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Except that it is actually easier to use SQL rather than having to use filters and indexes. OK, that's a matter of opinion - but an opinion shared...

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Yesterday, 05:24 PM

TysonLPrice replied to a thread Israel? in World Events

I haven't seen it asked yet, that I have read, but what if one was on a plane in flight?

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Yesterday, 04:30 PM

Elroy replied to a thread DAO v ADO v SQL, & Scalability Discussion (for my sanity, and possibly Sam's as well) in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

VB6P, if you want all that added complexity, go for it. :)

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Yesterday, 04:25 PM

Elroy replied to a thread Command Button Width Based On Caption and Font in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Here, I've attached just the beginnings of a custom UC that's basically a Command-Button that Auto-Sizes. It auto-sizes in both the IDE and during...

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Yesterday, 04:13 PM

Arnoutdv replied to a thread Command Button Width Based On Caption and Font in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Did you even tried the code? Or is it inferior for your needs, because it uses a power of a label control instead of dozen of API calls?

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Yesterday, 04:12 PM

VB6 Programming replied to a thread DAO v ADO v SQL, & Scalability Discussion (for my sanity, and possibly Sam's as well) in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

I'm making the opposite point - that you may not know in advance whether you need to extend the project to become a large multi-user project/SQL...

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Yesterday, 03:39 PM

VB-only replied to a thread [RESOLVED] What is best way to populate a Rich Text Box in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Thank you. That's exactly what i was looking for. One command and it's done.

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Yesterday, 03:38 PM

qvb6 replied to a thread DAO v ADO v SQL, & Scalability Discussion (for my sanity, and possibly Sam's as well) in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

And I forgot about stored procedures. They can improve performance by eliminating the need for data round-trip. Typically, if you want to change some...

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Yesterday, 03:21 PM

DrBobby replied to a thread DAO v ADO v SQL, & Scalability Discussion (for my sanity, and possibly Sam's as well) in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Where I work we are quite big on keeping the queries simpler and doing all the data manipulation in vb6 code. Sometimes that makes stuff harder but...

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Yesterday, 03:12 PM

Elroy replied to a thread Command Button Width Based On Caption and Font in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

I'd tend to leverage the AutoSize property of the label to do this, possibly making a custom UC that behaved like a button but actually had a label...

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Yesterday, 03:09 PM

Elroy replied to a thread DAO v ADO v SQL, & Scalability Discussion (for my sanity, and possibly Sam's as well) in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

And, if you want to use it ... SELECT * FROM Customers WHERE CustomerID = 123 ... would work absolutely fine for opening a recordset in the...

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Yesterday, 03:04 PM

qvb6 replied to a thread DAO v ADO v SQL, & Scalability Discussion (for my sanity, and possibly Sam's as well) in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

DAO is tightly integrated to MDB files, so it's faster for this purpose than ADO, both won't get any improvements, perhaps except security for the...

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