David Stein

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You’ve Just Taken Your First Step Into a Larger World

I love learning new things.

I couldn’t help but in a small way feel like Luke Skywalker when he first felt the force. I’ve been trying to get access to a SQL 2008 Server for the longest time, and it’s finally happened. I wrote and published my first SQL [...]

Use the VALID Event for Error Checking

Anybody who has developed with VBA and FastForms long enough has most likely run into the following error message.

I cannot tell you exactly why this error occurs, because I’ve never received an answer from support. I know the surest way to trigger it is to attempt to error check fields [...]

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I love ThinkGeek.

A Made2Manage friend called me recently to ask for help decoding the Visual FoxPro from a M2M report. While talking to him over the phone, I remarked that it would be a lot easier if all of the old code revisions weren’t included with the finished reports. [...]

Vendor Support Suggestions

iSquint help menu. I love this stuff.

I came across this picture a few days ago on Brent Ozar’s excellent blog and the original picture is found on flickr. I placed it here, rather than link it, because some of you have complained that flickr is blocked by your firewalls. [...]

Interesting FastForms Trick. Enable the Double-Click

In an earlier article, I discussed the problems associated with FastForms date fields. I suggested using regular text boxes at that time, but what if you want to make them act like M2M date fields with the double click feature? In case you don’t know, when you double click a date field in [...]

Crystal Reports and the Object Repository Helper

Those who read this blog probably noticed that I didn’t post last week. I always try to post at least once or twice a week, but last week I was very busy with a “branding” change with my current employer. This included a change in logo on all communications, both written and electronic. [...]