I am trying to create a routine that merges two or more files, and does not duplicate any lines. I thought the fastest way would be to add the lines to a...
Hi Alan, That is almost like saying I want to shuffle cards faster <g> Are the layouts of all of the files the same ? That is, is each line a Record with the...
Steve Manser
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Apr 1, 2003 2:44 pm
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Hi Steve, Essentially, I am trying to do is merge files that contain X, Y and Y1 coordinates for a graph. I need to prevent duplicate lines as this will cause ...
The like operator is actually very fast compared to instr(). I haven't benchmarked it, but, try reading in your first file, then, for each line in the second...
Thanks Bruce, That works great..... It runs in a very acceptable time now! HUGE HUGE DIFFERENCE!!!!! (I can even eliminate the code showing which file it is...
maybe a user type record made into an array would be a little faster. Insert and redim the array with new data - and search new ones using an sub or index to...
Hi Allen, 1) The slowest things in VB are string and file manipulations. 2) If you use any Arrays, make sure that you ReDim in Chunks that are appropriate...
Steve Manser
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Apr 1, 2003 9:32 pm
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I have decided to use odbc for my password login screen. Are there any drawbacks to this? And I will connect to the access database using the odbcjt32.dll. ???...
Jamie, True, from What I understand, You Need ADOX to create, modify the database structure. ... From: Jamie [mailto:mindserve@...] Sent: Wednesday,...
Jamie, I don't think I've used the odbcjt32.dll, at least directly, or intentionally. Our friends in Redmond have spent, literally, millions upon millions of...
Steve Manser
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Apr 2, 2003 3:03 pm
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actually, you can use the connection to execute a SQL "CREATE TABLE" I believe... ADOX just simplifies that task... doesn't always work with all providers...
Tell me what would be wrong about using the following attached code. Why do some people connect using DSN? Is there a better way to code this?? ( found some...
Joe has just nailed it. Have you had a chance to look at Toby Bascom's ADOX Example where he demos some of those capabilities ? www.carpet-sharks.com I also...
Steve Manser
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Apr 2, 2003 3:17 pm
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http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/ DNS Resources Directory ... About the DNS The Domain Name System (DNS) is a distributed Internet directory service. DNS is used...
Steve Manser
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Apr 2, 2003 3:44 pm
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Hello all, I trying vb.net out with a friend. The problem is that when its done installing, and we choose form the templates windows application we get this. ...
How can I disable the ability to Paste data into a textbox. This is to keep people from copying and pasting data for verification. If I set everything to...
You can set the property to Locked, and then the textbox cannot be edited at all. It can be read from. Jamie __________________________________________________...
Hi everyone here comes one of those questions that I don't need to know but would like to it's not a programing question but hear goes how do you come up with ...
<<Can you fill us in, or give more details ? Maybe a URL to an article on the DLL ?>> ******************************************* From the folks at 1 Redmond...
From: http://www.vbrad.com/pf.asp?p=source/tip_conn_str.htm This page is a tutorial on how to more easily create a Connection String by making use of a .udl...
Steve Manser
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Apr 3, 2003 1:57 am
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From: http://www.vbrad.com/pf.asp?p=source/src_two_points.htm The Earth is round (or so Copernicus will have us believe) and that sucks. Why? Because we can't...
Steve Manser
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Apr 3, 2003 2:34 am
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From: http://www.vbrad.com/pf.asp?p=source/tip_Stupid_Keyboard_Tricks.htm Nice article about short cuts in the VB IDE, and how to save time while coding, and...
Steve Manser
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Apr 3, 2003 3:20 am
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From: http://www.vbrad.com/pf.asp?p=Articles/janmay01/art_LazyProgrammer.htm Contrary to what the title/subject line says, this web article extols the...
Steve Manser
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Apr 3, 2003 3:37 am
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Perhaps you're better off preventing the copy than the paste? Might you be able to not have the second password box pop up until they leave the first one,...
Hi Steve,
Always good to know these things...
Well, I'm off to France. Talk to you next week!
All the best,
Vasco
-- SAPO ADSL.PT, apanhe já o comboio da...
Vasco Pinhão
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Apr 3, 2003 2:05 pm
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Which of the following are automation Objects. Forms? Modules? Classes? Dll's? OCX's? ACTIVEX.EXE's? Where can I find information about What is an Automation...
IIRC, an automation object is basically a COM server where you can either run the server free-standing, or use automation to control it programatically from...