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Thanks, guys! Just another case of "If it sounds to good to be true...

Yesterday, a guy claiming to be from Microsoft called me on my cell phone. (He had an Indian accent, so that's plausible.) He said that there was a virus on my laptop (I have 3 laptops) and he wanted to walk me through fixing it. I told him I was at work and couldn't get to "my laptop," so he...

Thanks, I'm going to remember this thread. I had seen the Spolsky article and was also amused by the deprecation of EBCDIC: the job I had before this one--we used PL/1. Gag. For now we're going to survive on faith: we don't think we're going to see any > 127 data, so we're going to pretend...

Thanks, Mike, that confirms what I already know and clarifies a bit of the mystery. (No pun intended.) Our legacy system is happy, old, "PC ASCII": numerals, upper- and lowercase letters, some punctuation. Now we have a new instrument that is producing UTF-8 files. It leads off files with a...

It seems as though we flogged this subject to death years ago, but I'm hesitant to rely on the ten-year-old threads I found that are, at best, ambiguous. So here we go again: Is there a straightforward way to handle UTF-8 files with VB6? I think my challenge in the end will be to read UTF-8...

Those are from the old CUA keymap. There's probably a property in the edit class you were using that enables CUA keys or Win keys or both. This crops up a lot when you need to prevent the user from pasting into a field: you have to disable CTRL-V, SHIFT-INS, and the context menu's Paste using...

Check the Logitech Web site to see if you really need those apps and driver. I have an older cordless mouse, and I installed the driver for it. Ran into performance issues similar to yours. Hidden away in the Logitech site was a notice that my mouse model was supported by the Windows 7...

As for the other mystery, when you write a "for" loop incrementing from 1 to a maximum value, whenever your loop counter isn't involved in a calculation that might somehow affect the loop's execution, Delphi converts the loop to start at the maximum value and decrement to 1 (or whatever the...

The problem with the OP's provider is that they don't know the difference between tags and values. That is definitely not well-formed XML; it's not even close. It looks like what they should be doing is something like this: <root> <hashtable> <unknown>6</unknown> </hashtable>...

XML Notepad is a free download from Microsoft.

I think Windows Photo Gallery is "damaged by design." Would it be possible for your users to download and use Windows Live Photo Gallery? It's a more ambitious and better application.

Some websites that employ older technologies (or old versions) don't work in out-of-the-box IE9. IE9 has a "compatibility mode" that makes those sites work--it's not always so pretty in "compatibility mode," but it will work. I use IE9 and I like it.

Why would you need to do that? Presumably, there is something that would make the <note> item "too big." What is that? And why would you duplicate the entire <thread> node when you could put multiple <note> items within a <thread>?

XML is a mark-up language: it's a data file that includes the context of the data. XML is not a programming language: it doesn't DO anything. You have VB.NET as a programming language and your data is stored in a SQL Server database. Presumably your job is to perform a mail-merge. If your...

Excel is not a particularly simple way to create an XML file. It takes more steps than doing it directly. If your data is coming from a database, you can probably export it directly as an XML file. Otherwise, if you're comfortable using any programming language to read and write files, it...

hdingman, that could be either a very good idea or a very bad idea. If the OP's app has ten ID numbers, it's a good idea. If he has a thousand ID numbers, that would kind of suck.

Thanks, George. If that's what the poster meant, I did misunderstand him.

There is no "Forms" menu, so your question doesn't make sense. You can create a form, then go to the File menu, choose "Save as" and you can put the form anywhere you like. This, however, would be an unwieldy way to organize your project, as it could lead to project files being scattered all...

Well, that just sounds crazy. Why on earth would you use T-SQL to populate an Excel spreadsheet, then turn right around and use T-SQL to read the spreadsheet to populate a SQL Server table or tables? What is the purpose of sticking Excel in the middle of this?

Bingo on the . = ? As for the asterisk, it doesn't match anything itself: it modifies the previous piece of the regex. For example: A* matches 0-n (uppercase) A characters [0-9]* matches 0-n digits .* matches 0-n of any character