Caption = "Registered and unregistered trademarks used herein belong to their owners. Microsoft, Windows, Visual Basic, and Microsoft Access are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. The Thinking Hat, Late Night News From Another World, ETN Corporation, and the DataFace icon are trademarks of ETN Corporation. Portions of this program are (c) 1993, Microsoft Corporation."
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Caption = "WARNING-> This is an EXPERIMENTAL program. Use it at your own RISK. It does not intentionally modify the DATABASE, but it may behave in UNEXPECTED ways if used with a LARGE TABLE or LARGE TEXT fields. The recommended way to use this program is with a DISCARDABLE COPY of a small-sized database."
Caption = "VBROWSER 1.0 is the sample program for the first in a series of articles on using JET with Visual Basic 3. If you find this program useful, you can get the subsequent versions (as they become available) by subscribing to J.D. Evans, Jr.'s newsletter, ""The Thinking Hat: Late Night News From Another World"", available from:"
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Caption = "Other useful modifications can include such things as adding a column header, putting the browser listbox inside a scrollable viewport, adding more database information fields, making edit fields available for a row, adding display fields for MEMO, LONG BINARY, and VERY LARGE TEXT fields. "
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Caption = "the SEEK function can be used to JUMP from one location to another QUICKLY. One way to modify VBROWSER involves having it make a COPY of the table you intend to browse, adding a record number field to the COPY TABLE, and then browsing the COPY TABLE rather than the original table. "
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Caption = "be very SLOW. Nevertheless, VBROWSER is NOT intended to be a general purpose JET browser. Rather, it's purpose is to provide a basis for an application-specific browser. By designing tables so that they DO have sequential record numbers (or some other type of equally useful numeric values),"
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Caption = "Because the Microsoft Access 1.1 Database Engine (JET) does NOT provide INTRINSIC record numbers, this version of VBROWSER uses the Move<type> suite of navigation commands. The major problem with Move<type> functions is that moving from the first ROW in a table to the last ROW in the same table can "
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Caption = "VBROWSER demonstrates a relatively simple way to construct a browser for Microsoft Access 1.1 database tables. It works acceptably for small-sized tables that do not have MEMO, BINARY, LONGBINARY, and VERY LARGE TEXT fields. "