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I have written an application that takes in a fixed-width file (thanks in no small part to advice I recieved in a seperate thread) and then dissasembles each line, runs a fairly meaty SQL SELECT query ...

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I need to do some datagrid sorting/filtering on a local Access database. I found an example in the MS book 101 Coding Examples, but to get it to work I had to install MSDE/SQL Server and IIS to get ...

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ActiveData assists Visual Basic 5/6 developers in their data application development. It helps you see and edit a DAO or ADO recordset's data, connection properties, recordset properties, and field ...