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- README.TXT
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- Release Notes for Microsoft (R) Visual Basic (TM) Professional Edition
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- Version 3.00
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- (C) Copyright Microsoft Corporation, 1993
-
- This document contains release notes for Microsoft Visual Basic Professional
- Edition version 3.0 for Windows. Information in this document is more
- current than that in the manuals or online Help.
-
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- How to Use This Document
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- word processor. Then select the entire document and format the text in
- 10-point Courier before printing.
-
- *******************************************************************
- Read Part 1 - Software Installation Information - before installing.
- *******************************************************************
-
- ========
- Contents
- ========
-
- Part Description
- ---- -----------
- 1 Software Installation Information
- 2 Notes and Tips
- 3 Notes for "Learning Microsoft Visual Basic" Tutorial
- 4 Notes for Microsoft Visual Basic Online Help
- 5 Notes for Microsoft Visual Basic "Programmer's Guide"
- 6 Notes for Microsoft Visual Basic "Language Reference"
- 7 Notes for Microsoft Visual Basic "Custom Control Reference"
- 8 Notes for Microsoft Visual Basic "Data Access Guide"
-
- =========================================
- Part 1: Software Installation Information
- =========================================
-
- To install Visual Basic, use the Program Manager or File Manager to start
- SETUP.EXE as you would any other Windows-based application. For example,
- if you are installing from drive A:
-
- - From the Program Manager File menu, choose Run.
- - In the Run dialog box, type A:SETUP and choose OK.
-
- Or
-
- - From the File Manager, double-click the SETUP.EXE file icon
- on drive A.
-
- ------------------------------------
- File Sharing for OLE and Data Access
- ------------------------------------
- You will need SHARE.EXE to enforce file and byte range locking if the
- following programs are running simultaneously:
-
- - Two Visual Basic applications that perform data access
- - Two instances of one Visual Basic application that performs data access
- - Microsoft Access and a Visual Basic application that performs data
- access
-
- If you are running Microsoft Windows 3.0 or Windows 3.1 (i.e. not
- Windows for Workgroups), you will need to change your AUTOEXEC.BAT
- as follows:
-
- SHARE /L:500 /F:5100
-
- If the /L or the /F setting to SHARE has a larger value than listed here,
- leave the setting as it is rather than reducing it.
-
- Please make this change as soon as possible in your system.
-
- Note
- ----
- If you ship .EXE files to users that use OLE or data access, they must
- add this setting to their AUTOEXEC.BAT file as well.
-
- -----------------------
- Visual C++ and GRID.VBX
- -----------------------
- If you plan to install Microsoft Visual C++(TM) Development System for
- Windows on your system, you may overwrite the grid control in your Windows
- \SYSTEM directory. Before installing Visual C++, make a backup of GRID.VBX.
- If you have already installed Visual C++, you can re-install GRID.VBX by
- running Setup again, choosing the Custom Installation button, and then
- selecting the Microsoft Visual Basic option.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------
- Using Visual Basic 3.0 with SQL Server and Access 1.0
- -----------------------------------------------------
- If you choose to install the SQL Server ODBC driver, you will find the file
- INSTCAT.SQL in the \VB\ODBC directory. This is a stored procedure file that
- the SQL Server administrator must run on the server to prepare the server to
- accept Visual Basic as a client. However, this version of INSTCAT.SQL is
- incompatible with Microsoft Access 1.0. If you are also using Access 1.0
- as a client for that SQL Server, you should use the INSTCAT.SQL that was
- included with Access 1.0. Visual Basic 3.0 will work correctly with
- INSTCAT.SQL from Access 1.0 except that it will be unable to delete indexes
- from tables.
-
- ----------------------
- Setup and LZEXPAND.DLL
- ----------------------
- Visual Basic's Setup program uses LZEXPAND to install ODBC. If you encounter
- a system error while Visual Basic is calculating free disk space, check for
- this file in your Windows \SYSTEM directory. If an older version of
- LZEXPAND.DLL exists along your path, remove the file and continue with Setup.
-
- ======================
- Part 2: Notes and Tips
- ======================
- ----------------------------------------------------
- Data Access Compatibility - Visual Basic 2.0 and 3.0
- ----------------------------------------------------
- The new functionality of the Microsoft Access engine in Visual Basic 3.0
- will affect the behavior of your VB 2.0 code. Visual Basic 3.0 will
- now assume that all SQL statements take the form of Access SQL (see the
- Access documentation). You can passthrough SQL to ODBC; as a second
- parameter to the CreateDynaset method, you must specify &H40 to indicate
- SQL passthrough. Note that if you used backend-specific SQL with
- CreateDynaset, you must add this parameter.
-
- ----------
- ATI Driver
- ----------
- If you have an ATI Wonder card, moving the data control around at design
- time may cause a GP fault. Contact ATI for more information.
-
- ------------------------------------------------------
- BackColor Displayed Incorrectly with 256-Color Bitmaps
- ------------------------------------------------------
- If you have a 256-color bitmap in any control (or the form) that has a
- BackColor property, it is possible that the background color of that object
- will not display correctly if no color in the bitmap's palette matches the
- background color.
-
- ----------------------------------
- "Communication Link Failure" Error
- ----------------------------------
- If you receive a "Communication Link Failure" error when executing queries
- against a Microsoft or Sybase SQL Server, you can retry the operation with
- asynchronous execution disabled. To do this, add the following entry to
- your VB.INI file:
-
- [Debug]
- RmtTrace=16
-
- Visual Basic will continue to run synchronously until this line is removed
- from VB.INI.
-
- ---------------
- OLE Class Names
- ---------------
- To get a reference to a currently running OLE application by using its class
- name, you must use:
-
- GetObject(, "classname")
-
- that is, GetObject has to have an empty file name. A file name of "" will
- create a new instance of the server for class name. This is contradictory
- to what is documented.
-
- --------------------------------
- OLE Control: In-Place Activation
- --------------------------------
- The Visual Basic OLE 2.0 control supports "Inside-Out Activation," which
- corresponds to "activation on GetFocus." If a server designates this
- capability and you specify AutoActivate = GETFOCUS, then:
-
- - The object is initially deactivated the first time the control gets the
- focus.
- - The object is not fully deactivated when the control loses focus.
- Instead, the object is directed to tear down any floating user interface
- it may have, such as tool pallettes.
-
- Note that AutoActivate = GETFOCUS is only supported if the server claims to
- be "inside-out-capable," further reducing the possibility of looping
- re-activation when a non-insitu server closes and gives focus back to the
- control.
-
- -----------------------------------------------
- OLE Control: Pasting Objects from the Clipboard
- -----------------------------------------------
- Applications that provide objects behave differently when an object is
- deleted. When you delete an OLE object (set Action = 10), the object's
- application may or not close. If the application does close, any objects
- on the Clipboard associated with that application may also be closed.
- Because of this, you may not be able to cut an object (copy, then delete),
- since deleting the object may also cause the data on the Clipboard to be
- deleted.
-
- Another instance of this behavior is when you try to copy an object, then
- paste the object back onto itself. This action may cause an error, because
- in order to paste over an existing object, the existing object is first
- deleted. If the application associated with the object closes, and
- subsequently deletes any objects it has on the Clipboard, the Clipboard no
- longer contains an object to paste.
-
- ---------------------------------
- OLE Control: The PasteOK Property
- ---------------------------------
- The following applies to objects on the Clipboard that come from an OLE
- object:
-
- - When PasteOK returns True, there is no guarantee that the Paste operation
- will succeed. For example, PasteOK returns True and the Paste fails when
- there is a linked object on the Clipboard and you are pasting into an
- object whose OleTypeAllowed property is set to 1 (Embedded).
- - PasteOK returns False when there is a linked object on the Clipboard and
- you are pasting into an object whose OleTypeAllowed property is set to
- 0 (Linked).
-
- ------------------------
- OLE Control: Link Target
- ------------------------
- You cannot activate a linked object as hidden (set Verb = -3). You can,
- however, activate an embedded object as hidden.
-
- -----------------------------
- OLE Constants in CONSTANT.TXT
- -----------------------------
- OLE has also defined two new standard verbs relating to the two states that
- an in-place-active object can have. The following corresponding constants
- have been added to CONSTANT.TXT:
-
- Constant Description
- -------- -----------
- VERB_INPLACEUIACTIVATE Object is fully in-place active, including floating
- UI. Only one at a time per top-level form can be
- in this state.
-
- VERB_INPLACEACTIVATE Object is semi-active; it is running and ready to
- respond to user input like clicking within the
- object or changing the mouse pointer as the user
- moves the mouse over different parts of the object.
- Any number of objects can be in this state at a
- time.
-
- So, if you have a number of inside-out-capable objects on a form, where the
- user has specified AutoActivate = ONGETFOCUS, the objects take turns at
- being in-place-UI-Active. The new verbs allow the Visual Basic programmer to
- cause these objects to be in the in-place-active state. For example, if you
- want to create a form with several of these objects, and you want the form
- to be as responsive as possible to user input, you would put the following
- code for each control into your Form_Load event handler:
-
- OLEControl.Verb = VERB_INPLACEACTIVATE
- OLEControl.Action = OLE_ACTIVATE
-
- See the file CONSTANT.TXT for more information.
-
- ------------------------------------
- Windows 3.0 and the PopupMenu Method
- ------------------------------------
- Under Windows 3.0, pop-up menus invoked during a MouseDown event in some
- cases do not recognize menu selections made with the mouse. If that occurs,
- you can still make a selection using the arrow keys and the Enter key.
-
- ------------------------------------------
- Saving ASCII Forms in Source Code Managers
- ------------------------------------------
- When using source code managers, you need to change the read-only bit on the
- binary file (.FRX) as well as the form file (.FRM) to save the form.
-
- --------------------------------
- Crystal Reports for Visual Basic
- --------------------------------
- All prices in the Crystal Reports for Visual Basic editor, CRW.EXE, are
- listed in US dollars.
-
- If you are calling Crystal Services from outside the United States for
- support or more information, please contact your local international
- long distance carrier if you need assistance.
-
- ============================================================
- Part 3: Notes for "Learning Microsoft Visual Basic" Tutorial
- ============================================================
- -----------------------
- Save Project Before Run
- -----------------------
- The Save Project Before Rune.
- Select Case Attr ' Look up attributes.
- Case 0: Msg = "Normal"
- Case ATTR_READONLY: Msg = "Read-Only"
- Case ATTR_HIDDEN: Msg = "Hidden"
- Case ATTR_HIDDEN + ATTR_READONLY: Msg = "Hidden and Read-Only"
- Case ATTR_SYSTEM: Msg = "System"
- Case ATTR_READONLY + ATTR_SYSTEM: Msg = "Read-Only and System"
- Case ATTR_HIDDEN + ATTR_SYSTEM: Msg = "Hidden and System"
- Case ATTR_READONLY + ATTR_HIDDEN + ATTR_SYSTEM: Msg = "Read-Only,"
- - + Msg = " Hidden, and System"
- End Select
- MsgBox UCase(FName) & " is a " & Msg & " file." ' Display message.
- End Sub
-
- 256 hDC Property
-
- The Usage line should read:
-
- {[form.] [commondialog. | picturebox.] | Printer.}hDC
-
- Also, the second paragraph of the Remarks should read, "With a common
- dialog control, this property returns a device context for the printer
- selected in the Print dialog box when the..." (the rest of the text
- remains the same).
-
- 258 Height, Width Properties
-
- The See Also line should refer to the "Width # Statement," not the
- "Width Statement."
-
- 274 Image Control
-
- Add DataField and DataSource to the Properties list.
-
- 280 InitDir Property
-
- The "Applies To" line should read "Common dialog (File dialogs)."
-
- 297 KeyDown, KeyUp Events
-
- The See Also should refer to the SendKeys Statement, not the SendKeys
- Method.
-
- 299 KeyPress Events
-
- The See Also should refer to the SendKeys Statement, not the SendKeys
- Method.
-
- 303 Label Control
-
- Add the DataField, DataSource, and Parent properties to the Properties
- list.
-
- 336- ListFields Method
- 338
- In the second table, the fifth and sixth entries in the Field column
- should be SourceTable and SourceField, not SourceTableName and
- SourceFieldName. The code example and the headings of the table
- below it should also refer to SourceTable and SourceField.
-
- 345 ListTables Method
-
- In Remarks, the first paragraph under the TableType field table should
- read: "When you use the ListTables method to create a Snapshot, you
- can evaluate the contents of the Attributes field in the Snapshot by
- referring to the TableDef property settings table in the Attributes
- property topic.
-
- 361 Max, Min Properties (Common Dialog)
-
- At the beginning of the topic, add "Applies To...Common dialog (Font,
- Print dialogs)."
-
- 363 MaxFileSize Property
-
- The "Applies To" line should read "Common dialog (File dialogs)."
-
- 390 Name Property
-
- The "Applies To" line should include the Database object.
-
- 432 Partition Function
-
- In the code in Example 3, the second five lines of code duplicate
- the first five lines and should be deleted.
-
- 439 Picture Box Control
-
- Add DataField and DataSource to the Properties list.
-
- 444 PopupMenu Method
-
- In the Syntax line, there should be a comma immediately before the y.
-
- 455 PrinterDefault Property
-
- The "Applies To" line should read "Common dialog (Print dialog)."
-
- 536- SourceFieldName, SourceTableName Properties
- 537
- All references to SourceFieldName and SourceTableName in this topic
- should refer to "SourceField" and "SourceTable" instead.
-
- 538 SourceTableName Property
-
- There should be a full entry for the "SourceTableName" topic. See
- online Help for the text of this topic.
-
- 565 Text Box Control
-
- The second piece of art is incorrect. It should show a text box
- on a form but instead shows a menu title and menu items on a form.
- Also, add DataField and DataSource to the Properties list.
-
- 595 Validate Event
-
- In the third paragraph following the Constants table, change "edit
- buffer" to "copy buffer."
-
- 619 Trappable Errors
-
- In Appendix B, the odd header is wrong. It should read "Trappable
- Errors," not "Trappable Error Messages."
-
- 634 Trappable Error Messages
-
- In Table B.6 ("Data Access Trappable Error Messages"), Error #3137
- should be deleted.
-
- ===================================================================
- Part 7: Notes for Microsoft Visual Basic "Custom Control Reference"
- ===================================================================
-
- Page Section/Note
- ---- ------------
- xxii Visual Basic Executable (.EXE) Files
-
- The Visual Basic run-time file is listed incorrectly. The first
- bulleted item should read VBRUN300.DLL, not VBRUN200.DLL.
-
- 147 Graph Control
-
- In Example 1, the following line contains two "=" characters:
-
- Graph1.LabelText = "Data point" = Str$(i%)
-
- The line should read:
-
- Graph1.LabelText = "Data point" + Str$(i%)
-
- 148 Graph Control
-
- In Example 2, the following line contains two "=" characters:
-
- Graph1.LabelText = "Label" = Str$(i%)
-
- The line should read:
-
- Graph1.LabelText = "Label" + Str$(i%)
-
- 176 Key Status Control
-
- The table for the Value property incorrectly states that False is
- the default value. The default value is determined by the state
- of the keyboard.
-
- 180 MAPI Session Control
-
- There should be no footnotes, since the MAPI controls are
- only available in Visual Basic.
-
- 186 MAPI Messages Control
-
- There should be no footnotes, since the MAPI controls are
- only available in Visual Basic.
-
- ============================================================
- Part 8: Notes for Microsoft Visual Basic "Data Access Guide"
- ============================================================
-
- Page Section/Note
- ---- ------------
- 23 Creating New Table Definitions
-
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-
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- should be set to "No" when running the "Learning Visual Basic" tutorial.
- Some of the lessons may be impaired if this option is set to "Yes." By
- default, this setting is "No."
-
- ====================================================
- Part 4: Notes for Microsoft Visual Basic Online Help
- ====================================================
- ------------------
- Error Message Help
- ------------------
- Online Help is not available for dialogs or error messages that occur at
- design time. For ISAM errors, use the Search dialog in Help.
-
- --------------------------------
- "Couldn't find installable ISAM"
- --------------------------------
- An external file dynamic link library (DLL) file couldn't be found. This
- file is required for operations such as attaching or accessing external
- tables.
-
- Possible causes:
-
- 1) An entry in the [Installable ISAM] section in VB.INI or <APPNAME>.INI is
- incorrect. For example, this error occurs if you're accessing a Paradox
- external table, and the Paradox entry of the .INI file points to a
- nonexistent directory. Exit Visual Basic, make necessary corrections in
- VB.INI or <APPNAME>.INI using Microsoft Windows Notepad or another text
- editor, restart Visual Basic, and try the operation again.
-
- 2) One of the entries in the [Installable ISAM] section in VB.INI points to
- a network drive, and that drive isn't connected. Check to make sure the
- network is available and the proper drive letter is established, and try
- the operation again.
-
- =============================================================
- Part 5: Notes for Microsoft Visual Basic "Programmer's Guide"
- =============================================================
-
- Page Section/Note
- ---- ------------
- 188 The New Keyword
-
- In the example at the top of the page, the local form
- variable F is declared with the New keyword using the
- Dim statement. To make the form variable and the
- loaded form instance persist, use a Static or Global
- variable instead.
-
- 194 Determining the Type of an Object Variable
-
- You can use the If...TypeOf statement to determine the
- control type of a custom control:
-
- If TypeOf object Is objecttype
-
- The identifier you use for 'object' is the class name of
- the custom control. See the section "Specific Control
- Object Types" (p. 186) for more information.
-
- 461 The Options Property
-
- The constant values shown are in hexidecimal and should be
- preceded with the &H notation. For example,
- DB_SQLPASSTHROUGH = &H40, not decimal 40. See online Help
- (Options Property) or the file DATACONS.TXT for the correct
- values.
-
- 462 The RecordSource Property
-
- The following text and example should be changed:
-
- For example, the following SQL query returns all of the columns
- in the bibliography for authors who live in New York:
-
- Data1.DatabaseName = "BIBLIO.MDB"
- Data1.RecordSource = "Select * from Titles where state = 'NY'"
- Data1.Refresh
-
- The above should read:
-
- For example, the following SQL query returns all of the columns
- in the bibliography for publishers based in New York:
-
- Data1.DatabaseName = "BIBLIO.MDB"
- Data1.RecordSource = "Select * from Publishers where state = 'NY'"
- Data1.Refresh
-
- 465 Adding a New Record
-
- In the second paragraph in this section, the last sentence
- should read, "Notice that using the buttons on the data
- control or one of the Move methods to move to another record
- will automatically save your added record."
-
- 530 Determining How an Object Is Displayed
-
- In the first paragraph, the second sentence should read,
- "the Icon check box," not "th eIcon check box."
-
- 550 Creating Invisible Objects
-
- In the sample code, the following line has incorrect syntax:
-
- MyWord = ObjVar.SuggestWord MyWord
-
- The code should look like this:
-
- MyWord = ObjVar.SuggestWord (MyWord)
-
- 552 Limitations in Visual Basic
-
- Under the discussion "Arrays and User-Defined Types," the third
- bulleted item should read: "You cannot...Assign the return value
- of a property or method to an array variable or a variable of a
- user-defined type."
-
- 554 Closing an Object
-
- In the paragraph after the sample code, second sentence: It is
- not true that invoking a Close method on an object sets variables
- that refer to the object to Nothing.
-
- 582 Determining the Files You Need to Distribute
-
- The following additional files are required for distributing
- your Visual Basic applications:
-
- DLL Name Required by (Professional Edition Only)
- -------- ---------------------------------------
- PDIRJET.DLL Crystal Reports for Visual Basic
- PDBJET.DLL Crystal Reports for Visual Basic
- MSAJT110.DLL Crystal Reports for Visual Basic
- MSAES110.DLL Crystal Reports for Visual Basic
- PDSODBC.DLL ODBC and Crystal Reports for Visual Basic
-
- =============================================================
- Part 6: Notes for Microsoft Visual Basic "Language Reference"
- =============================================================
-
- Page Section/Note
- ---- ------------
- 21-22 Action Property (OLE)
-
- In the Settings table, in Setting 5, the reference to None in the
- second sentence of the third paragraph should read as follows:
- "If the Paste was not successful, the OleType property will be set
- to 3 (None)." In Setting 12, the constant should be
- OLE_READ_FROM_FILE, not ReadFromFile. In Setting 14, the constant
- should be OLE_INSERT_OBJ_DLG.
-
- 41 AutoActivate Property
-
- In the Note, replace the words