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Articles for product: Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition

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142387 How To Create Excel Chart w/OLE Automation from Visual Basic
147875 How To Use "DSN-Less" ODBC Connections with RDO and DAO
161288 How To Get More Information on the ODBC Call Failed Error
161299 How To Capture and Print the Screen, a Form, or Any Window
167380 Internet Explorer reports unknown type .VBD for Active Document
172998 How To Use WebBrowser HEADERS Param in Navigate Method
175512 How To Get a Short Filename from a Long Filename
178057 How To Share State Between UserDocuments in Internet Explorer
179497 How To Select a Directory Without the Common Dialog Control
181075 SAMPLE: Automating Internet Explorer from Within a Contained VB ActiveX Control
181889 BUG: VB Hangs While Automating Excel Using OLE Control
182598 How To Implement IObjectSafety in Visual Basic Controls
188018 How To Pass Parameters from HTML to ActiveX Documents
189249 How to determine which 32-bit Windows version is being used
191096 PRB: Multiple "System Files Are Out of Date" Errors
192919 How To Automate a Secured Access Database Using Visual Basic
193087 BUG: Cannot Run a Compiled ActiveX DLL From IE
194611 How To Create and Call an Excel Macro Programmatically from VB
197902 PRB: Jet 3.51 OLE DB Provider Is Not Installed With MDAC 2.1 or Later
198532 FIX: ADO: Unable To Update Memo Field > 64K In Access Database
200027 How To Determine If Internet Explorer Is Offline from an ActiveX Document
202097 ACC2000: DBEngine.Idle dbRefreshCache Refresh Is Not Immediate
216399 How to convert between ASCII and EBCDIC character codes
217156 PRB: Jet Doesn't Honor AllowZeroLength=No When Table Created With CREATE TABLE SQL Statement
218600 How To Use Data Links to Create a Connection String at Run Time
224424 How To Implement Visual Basic COM Objects Returning Recordsets
231844 How To Detect If an Application Has Stopped Responding
232144 INFO: Jet OLE DB Provider Version 4.0 Supports SELECT @@Identity
238401 PRB: Error "Unrecognized Database Format" When You Upgrade to Access 2000 or 2002
240377 How To Ensure Jet 3.5 Is Installed Correctly (Part I)
240794 How to Determine the Path for an Office Application
242375 PRB: Office 97 Automation Client Fails After Re-compilation with Office 2000 or Later Type Library
242385 INFO: Microsoft Oracle OLE DB Provider Does Not Support Personal Oracle
243304 BUG: CREATE INDEX on Attached Table Fails Silently with More than 10 Fields
244040 How To Have Your ODBC Jet 3.5 and 4.0 Applications Co-exist
244757 How To Download a File Without Prompting
245524 How To Ensure Jet 3.5 Is Installed Correctly (Part II)
247202 Cannot set Empty to Date field using Oracle, SQL Provider, or Kagera
251135 BUG: Type Mismatch Error When Calling ShowBrowserBar Without Optional Parameter
253114 PRB: SQL_DRIVER_NOPROMPT Error When Using DEconnection in VB COM Object
253157 BUG: Identity field remains read-only after executing SET IDENTITY_INSERT ON statement
253282 PRB: Changes to ByRef Parameters in Script Event Handlers Are Not Passed to Controls
253673 PRB: Recordset Based on SQL Server View Updates Base Tables
253857 FIX: Jet DROP TABLE with Non-Existent Table Name Returns Wrong Error Code
254002 FIX: Importing Text File Without Schema.ini Can Cause Text Column to Be Defined as Currency
255782 How To Use ADO and ADOX to Modify the Base Query of an Access QueryDef Object in Visual Basic
255986 PRB: Improper Installation of MDAC May Return Error Message "Method '~' of Object '~' Failed" at Run Time with ADO Application
256624 HOWTO: Use a COM Add-In Function as an Excel Worksheet Function
258511 How to obtain the window handle for an Office Automation server
259100 SAMPLE: Vbhttp.exe Demonstrates How to Use HTTP WinInet APIs in Visual Basic