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    Multiline text in a List control

    Anybody know a way to show multiple lines of text as one list item in a List control, or have any suggestion on another control?
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    Data report that can do Shaped recordsets?.

    Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks Collin
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    Anyone have a solution to display a progressbar in the statusbar?

    A quick and easy way to do that is to use a 2 band CoolBar control aligned to bottom, One panel would have the Progress bar as child, the other the StatusBar, it not elegeant, but it will give you the same functionality.
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    Telnet Application

    While you can use the Winsock control (or API) to get the raw binary data, you would still have to write MUCH code to translate the Telenet protocol. Its not to diffucult buts its alot of work. There are some 3rd party Telenet Controls/classes you could buy. I started to write my own for fun...
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    Tricky logarithm

    Hiya, I would really like to help, but I dont understand what your trying to do. In your code snipet below there are some problems though; 'calculate number of places In = InputBox("Value:") Dim Places As Integer i = 0 k = 2 ^ i 'Will always = 1, 2 ^ 0 = 1 Do k = k * 2 '...
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    Reports that will do hierarchy recordsets

    Well..to avoid my spelling , lets just call them H recordsets, The easiest way to get one is in the Data Environment Designer. The are made by adding a command to a command and then relating a field in the parent command to a field in the child command. They basically return a recordset where...
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    Threads in VB

    Write an Active X exe class to do that work, It will run in its own thread
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    Reports that will do hierarchy recordsets

    VB Data Report designer will not do hieraretical(sp) recordsets, I was asking if anyone knew of a report designer that can handle them, either one from Data Enviroment or from a Shaped SQL statement.
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    Reports that will do hierarchy recordsets

    Anyone have any suggestions?
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    Running apps from CD

    rvBasic Taken from VBPJ (a magazine) from a article in the November issue VB.NET also includes many smaller but subtler changes: Underlying datatypes change to become consistent with the other languages in VS.NET. For example, Longs become Integers, and Integers become Shorts. Everything is...
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    API -> Creating shortcuts.

    Shell32 provides the functions to to manipulate Shell Links (shortcuts). Microsoft provides a Microsoft Windows Installer and installation database API with windows, If you have some knowledge of C you could access those DLL to do the work for you. Information on The Microsoft Windows...
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    Call Java Application from Visual Basic

    As I understand it, allmost and application written to the COM specifications can be used from VB no matter what the language. Some just require more tricks to make them work (Methods or functions useing pointers, signed/unsigned variables, Bitfields,Callback functions etc.)
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    Client/Server XML Communication

    ADO allows you to persist recordsets in the XML format, you could allways pass this info that way. But like Mike says, some more details would help. Collin
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    Put VB-application on hold

    Suspending VB is the easy part, determining when the shelled application has ended is the hard part. There is a good FAQ on that subject (4.c), or do a seach for the WaitforSingleObject API Collin
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    Another Global Variables Question

    Gotta be alittle more specific for me, maybe some code snippets Collin

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