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I recently installed VS 2017 and went to create a COM object project and was notified the minimum supported OS would be a build of Windows 10. Is that in fact the case, or might it still work with Windows 7? If I develop on a Win 7 box would it just be a matter of what does the compiling? I...

Hi all, I am trying to pastespecial an image into a specific cell in a word table. When I use the simple paste it is placed into the correct cell but when I use pastespecial it always goes into the 1st column of the table. I'm in Office 2013 and creating a chart in Excel and then trying to...

I am creating excel driven ODBC SQL reports on a Sybase 16 database and some of the numeric fields have precision too high for the Excel ODBC driver. I am not at all concerned with precision loss - I am happy with <15 decimals. Without handling Excel is simple crashing upon the rs.Open cSQL...

Hi guys! I have a problem... The standard menu in a VFP install on a Server 2008 R2 isn't responsive to mouse clicks but responds to Alt+Key shortcuts. Clicking on it seems to be selecting the toolbar instead. An additional symptom is that I cannot move or resize the _screen except through...

Hi everyone! I haven't been around much at all lately and don't use VFP everyday like I used to. I've been using this trick for years and just had to set it up on a new install. Hope someone else out there finds it helpful. Quickly navigate/set default to a directory faq184-7360 Brian

I'm trying to make a log scale chart with a min 20, max 120, major/minor units at 10. Got it to look exactly like I want until I add the log scale option, then the min/max goes 10 to 1000 and has one 100 tick. My data is ~30 to 101. Once the log scale is set excel won't let me change the min/max...

My work office set-up has a dll conflict. I have little control over the environment. The software install was DESIGNED to share the same key and need different values/dlls. I need the below reg key vale to point to two different dlls depending on if I want to use a connection string to connect...

I have an Excel workbook with a pivot table created with an external data source (MDB) that is not available. The data was saved with the sheet. I need to query the data out or export it to a csv. There are several hundred thousand records so the double click doesn't help me. Any suggestions...

I'd like to identify deleted records from a table. The field I'd like to use is an auto increment. A deleted record would be a hole in the series. Any tips or triks? thanks, Brian

I have a third party application that I call and have to pass paramaters to including a path. This particular application chokes on a UNC even though the user's behavior may cause the UNC to be passed. Additionally, there is no garantee that the share is mapped to a drive letter. The following...

Is there a way to programmatically access the current user's active/inactive/disconnected status as seen in the task manager? I would like to be able to quit a particular application if the current user isn't active. Thanks, Brian

Why Antivirus Technology Is Ineffective" advocates a whitelist instead of the current blacklist approach. If it were that easy (profit motives aside) wouldn't it already be the standard? http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=113003W94IYA&page=1 Brian

What do I need to do to have a share recognized as part of a trusted site? The (terminal) server has a company defined default security set-up that we need to work around (e.g. users cannot alter IE security options). Typically users are double-clicking or applications are shell executing the...

Why does the first WHERE clause take so much longer than the sum of the parts? Anything I can do within the WHERE clause to improve the processing time? I can't change the DB. There are also 5 inner joins and 3 outer joins with a few addition filters embedded... e.g. LEFT OUTER JOIN B ON (A.ID...

Using VFP9 on XP Pro I do not get the expected behavior of a 1 second time out. I get an hourglass mouse cursor until I button click instead. This a VFP bug or is there something strange with my setup? Thanks, Brian WShell = CREATEOBJECT("WScript.Shell") WShell.Popup("My Timeout isn't...

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I'm automatting a bunch of downloads in the background and I'd like to disable the chime that signals the d/l is complete without affecting other media. Any ideas would be appreciated, especially if automatable. Thanks, Brian

Calvin says it's easy, but I can't get this to work. The service doesn't show up in my Administrative Tools -> Services. The registry entry is present and the exe works. I installed srvany. I am testing on an XP Pro box but ultimately want to install on Win2000/2003 servers. Any ideas...

I'm connected to a MS SQL Server database via a DSNless connection string and pulling out data using a FoxPro front end. I'm having an issue with float fields. No matter what is stored I only get back 2 decimals. I have a work around of multiplying within the query and dividing back with the...

If you take a look at the last bullet point in http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;825012 • In some cases, Excel may appear to calculate very slowly compared to Excel 2000 and earlier, particularly when a full recalculation is performed by using Ctrl+Alt+F9 or when the full...