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Just Conversation	106	780	Anonymous	Good job! Long time Delphi programmer here. I stop by PrestwoodBoards every few months and today I was surprised by all the changes. Nice job.--J, ---Johnathn 13 months ago
Member Introductions	204	666	Wes Peterson	Welcome Hi Daniel, I've seen some of your posts before, but thanks for the intro.  My experience isn't unlike yours. Before Delphi, I was coding mostly in C and C++; also client-server systems. I attended a show in San Francisco where Borland was handing out pre-release disks of Delphi 1. I installe... 9 days ago

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Mike Prestwood	Visual Interdev is history? I understand that the next version of Microsoft Visual Studio will NOT contain Visual Interdev. [IMG]http://prestwood.net/ubb/eek.gif[/IMG] Is this true? , , I also hear that it will be integrated into the other products. [IMG]http://prestwood.net/ubb/cool.gif[/IMG] Has anyone seen this yet? Any news? Comments?, , ------------------, Michael A. Prestwood, Author, Corel Paradox 9 Power Programming: The Official Guide, , President & CEO, Prestwoo... Posted to MB Topic: ASP Classic Coding « ASP Classic Board 12 years ago 3 replies. Last post: dprothero  Re: Visual Interdev is history? More information on .NET is available in the new Microsoft .NET forums on this message board., , , ------------------, David Prothero, Owner / Consultant, [URL=http://www.prothero.com]Prothero Consulting[/URL], (209) 956-9180 12 years ago	1076 Hits	ASP Classic Coding
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Mike Prestwood	Workbench for Paradox Post questions, tips, and suggested enhancements regarding Workbench in this area., , [b]Here is a bried description of Workbench:[/b], , Add 50+ options to Paradox. [IMG]http://prestwood.net/ubb/cool.gif[/IMG] Workbench is an add-on suite of tools for the 32-bit version of Paradox and is geared toward speeding up the development of business database applications. This tool suite installs right into Paradox's Tools menu giving you easy access to... Posted to MB Topic: Paradox Third Party Software, DLLs, and Controls « Paradox Board 12 years ago	593 Hits	Corel Paradox / ObjectPAL Coding
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pedrogato	Paradox in Portugal Am i the only one that loves Paradox in Portugal?, , If not please contact me Posted to MB Topic: Paradox Setup, Vista, etc. « Paradox Board 12 years ago 2 replies. Last post: footpad  Re: Paradox in Portugal FWIW, Corel's newsgroups receives a great deal of international and North American interest, as does the comp.databases.paradox Usenet newsgroup., , I've even found some new websites. Check out:, [URL=http://www.rdaworldwide.com]http://www.rdaworldwide.com[/URL] [URL=http://www.techtricks.com]http://www.techtricks.com[/URL] , , for some initial links. Both have Resources listed., , -- f, , [This message has been edited by footpad (edited Dece... 12 years ago	321 Hits	Corel Paradox / ObjectPAL Coding
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jenhill	new message board Hey, Mike! Very Cool, new message board!! Will post something important when it comes to me : ) Posted to MB Topic: Just Conversation « PrestwoodBoards Board 12 years ago 1 Reply: mprestwood  Re: new message board Thanks Jen. I'm very impressed with this software. We're looking forward to building a helpfull community., , ------------------, Michael A. Prestwood, Author, Corel Paradox 9 Power Programming: The Official Guide, , President & CEO, Prestwood Software & Consulting, 7525 Auburn Blvd., #8, Citrus Heights, CA 95610, , [URL=http://www.prestwood.com]www.prestwood.com[/URL], , [b][i]Serving your IT needs since 1984![/b][/i] 12 years ago	235 Hits	PrestwoodBoards
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JackHogue	Paradox and XML? Hello,, , I hope you can will help me with this...., , I am trying to find a way to send and receive XML from within Paradox 7 or, up..., , Is there any way to do this?, , Thanks, Jack Hogue, Vice President, WinCruise, Inc. Posted to MB Topic: Paradox Web Stuff « Paradox Board 12 years ago 5 replies. Last post: mprestwood  Re: Paradox and XML? Jack:, , Give Carol a call at 1-916-726-5675 x205 to set up a free consultation. I let her know to expect your call., , ------------------, Michael A. Prestwood, Author, Corel Paradox 9 Power Programming: The Official Guide, , President & CEO, Prestwood Software & Consulting, 7525 Auburn Blvd., #8, Citrus Heights, CA 95610, , [URL=http://www.prestwood.com]www.prestwood.com[/URL], , [b][i]Serving your IT needs since 1984![/b][/i] 12 years ago	566 Hits	Corel Paradox / ObjectPAL Coding
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grimchri	Need training/support in central Indiana Need help locating any Paradox seminars or training for the central Indiana area. Have developed cutom database applications for our design/build landscape company, and am in need of training assistance as our company grows to take on new users. Also may be interested in getting help with enhancing and debugging existing applications., , Chris Grimm Posted to MB Topic: Paradox Setup, Vista, etc. « Paradox Board 12 years ago 1 Reply: mprestwood  Re: Need training/support in central ... I don't know of any resources in the central Indiana area for training, but we can help with development remotely. I'll have Carol (my Account Manager) send you an email., , ------------------, Michael A. Prestwood, Author, Corel Paradox 9 Power Programming: The Official Guide, , President & CEO, Prestwood Software & Consulting, 7525 Auburn Blvd., #8, Citrus Heights, CA 95610, , [URL=http://www.prestwood.com]www.prestwood.com[/URL], , [b][i]Se... 12 years ago	265 Hits	Corel Paradox / ObjectPAL Coding
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madre	Form on a web sigte Can a form, that has been programmed and built using your strings of programming, be published to a web site (for customers with a card number similar to that of a credit car) for use when a cardholder enters a web site wanting to know how many points they have accumulated through purchases made at participating merchant locations???, , We have a company which manages data on cardholders for participating merchants. We currently have cardholders ... Posted to MB Topic: Paradox Web Stuff « Paradox Board 12 years ago 6 replies. Last post: lrutledge  Re: Form on a web sigte Sandi,, , Based on the information you have given me I can think of a couple ways to do what you want. As I see it, there are two parts to this puzzle. 1) You need to get the member's information from your Paradox database to the web site and 2) Your members need a way to identify who they are, to the website, and then retrieve their member information., , First, let's talk about getting the data from Paradox to the web site. The simplest way to ... 12 years ago	663 Hits	Corel Paradox / ObjectPAL Coding
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dprothero	Introducing the .NET Architecture Microsoft has something new up their sleeve and it's very exciting. The new .NET architecture is a new framework within various web services can be offered. Rather than launch into a lengthy description of what .NET is on my own, I will offer a list of URLs here to offer for your reading pleasure., , The Official .NET Home Page, [URL=http://www.microsoft.com/net/]http://www.microsoft.com/net/[/URL] , , Great .NET Info for Programmers, (including... Posted to MB Topic: VS.Net General & Other « C# Board 12 years ago	779 Hits	C# (Visual C# & VS.Net)
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dprothero	C# Introduction and Overview For the past two decades, C and C++ have been the most widely used languages for developing commercial and business software. While both languages provide the programmer with a tremendous amount of fine-grained control, this flexibility comes at a cost to productivity. Compared with a language such as Microsoft« Visual Basic«, equivalent C and C++ applications often take longer to develop. Due to the complexity and long cycle times associated wit... Posted to MB Topic: C# & WinForms « C# Board 12 years ago	536 Hits	C# (Visual C# & VS.Net)
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dprothero	Delphi Programmers Take Heart The father of Turbo Pascal and Delphi, Anders Hejlsberg, is also the architect of Microsoft's new language C#. The similarities of C# to Delphi are just uncanny. While COM was always a chore in C++ and unbelievably limiting in VB, Delphi really put MS to shame with its built-in language support for interfaces and rich hierarchy of classes you could descend from to create any type of COM object you wanted., , Delphi has always been the answer to t... Posted to MB Topic: C# & WinForms « C# Board 12 years ago 1 Reply: DanErvin  Re: Delphi Programmers Take Heart Well, being a Delphi programmer from when it was first out, I was leery at first to move away from Borland's Products for development. After doing abit of reading up on it (as well as finding out that Anders was a lead man) I have got to say that I am actually looking forward to adding the C# environment to my programming skills. It also gives me a reason to actually install Win2K on my workstation since it won't run on Windows98., , ----------... 12 years ago	935 Hits	C# (Visual C# & VS.Net)

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jlockley	clicking on blob field erases content. Database with 14K entries is back up to a corrupted database with loss of data. Repair shows no corruption. Working currently on Vista (Vista issues clear). Trying to open the blob files contents to rebuild the original deletes individual blob field contents permanently (leaving record and revisiting or closing file and reopening shows the records accessed without their stored objects). I keep hoping someone has an idea about this. it is most lik... Posted to MB Topic: Paradox Tables « Paradox Board 21 days ago	78 Hits	Corel Paradox / ObjectPAL Coding
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jlockley	Loss of Blob Field entries. I doubt there is a resolution for this, but if anyone knows the cause, it would be a starHave a large (near 1GB) database which stores resumes in a blob field. Several days ago I noticed that a resume was missing - this happened a few times recently, but was not a great problem. I tried to open it and received a message, "blob has been modified." The Database froze and needed to be shut down forcibly. (I know, it's not good).  Revisiting the... Posted to MB Topic: Paradox Tables « Paradox Board 23 days ago	52 Hits	Corel Paradox / ObjectPAL Coding
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resmith	Using OLE Auto Can someone help me understand the mechanics of using OLE Auto. I am trying to understand how I find the methods for each application that I wish to communicate with. Ther are several enumeration methods I can use in Paradox that give me information about the available servers. I would like to be able to understand how i can manipulate Excel. Where do I find how to initiate the communication. After initiating where do I find documentation to open... Posted to MB Topic: ObjectPAL « Paradox Board 31 days ago	88 Hits	Corel Paradox / ObjectPAL Coding
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jseidel	Reading Paradox tables from Access 2007 I have an Access application that imports data from Paradox tables in an existing, external application (Timeslips by Sage). App was originally written in Access 2003 and I was able to link to several Paradox tables and read them successfully (no update is required). We upgraded to Access 2007 and the existing Paradox links work just fine but I have been unable to create new read-only links to more of the Timeslips' Paradox tables. The new Import... Posted to MB Topic: Access VBA Programming « Access Board 38 days ago	102 Hits	Microsoft Access
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Joe.P	After Post I need to do something immediately after a record is posted & only if the record actually gets posted.  The problem I'm having is that the code gets executed even though a key violation has occurred and the record did not get posted., I have tried trapping  DataUnlockRecord and DataPostRecord however, if there is a KeyViolation, the code is still executing.  Where can I place code such that I can know the record has been... Posted to MB Topic: ObjectPAL « Paradox Board 46 days ago	86 Hits	Corel Paradox / ObjectPAL Coding