Programming

The brilliant minds at True DBGrid Pro answer the age-old question, “How do you sum the values of an unbound column?”

For two days now I’ve been trying to get a report to run from my Visual Basic application. The report calls a stored procedure on the SQL Server from a Crystal Reports ocx in the app. I needed to pass two simple parameters through the ocx, from the app, to the storedproc so the report file that the ocx calls would have the right dates in its query. The Seagate Software Knowledge Base Article c2003724 finally showed me what I was doing incorrectly. Silly me! I wasn’t correctly formatting the milliseconds in the date! The milliseconds.
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Experts Exchange is an incredibly useful resource for computer professionals.
Tell ‘em GatorDavid referred you.

Can anyone ever possibly have enough Batch Files? I didn’t think so.

From the readme.txt file for some sample PGP dll source code:

“It lacks helpful comments, clever design, and artful writing, but it’s all you’ll get.”

From the Things That Are Not As Easy As They Sound Department:
in-line unzipping of PGP-encrypted files with a .dll

From the Valuable Resources for This Sort of Thing Department:
vbAccelerator

Okay, I really just wanted you to see what the heck it is I’m doing right now. In case, y’know, you were interested. Which I doubt.

“Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.”
-Michael Sinz

C# looks cool. (But not cool like surfing or going to parties cool. Man, get a life.)

rfc1925: Universal Networking Truths Universal Networking Truths

Sometimes I think they are just trying to confuse people. Could they have possibly made the Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3 Download instructions any more confusing?
Actually it’s only step 4 that bugs me.