Technology Questions

Once can use the Shell function to call any Aplication in VB 6.0. For Outlook Express one can use, Shell (msimn.exe)

Ribbon is the term used as a replacement to the menu bar and toolbars in the older Microsoft Office versions. Under the ribbon, file menu items and toolbar buttons were grouped according to their functionality. It made these functions much accessible on the main interface, with the most commonly used buttons being shown instantly.

Currency is the location within the database during run-unit execution.

There are four levels of currency:

- Current of run-unit is the record occurrence of the last successful find or obtain;

- Current of record type is for the most recent of each record type;

- Current of record set is the most recent within each set 

- Current of area is within each area.

It can either be Final or Abstract

C++ is created by Bjarne Stroustrup of AT&T Bell Labs as an extension of C, C++ is an object-oriented computer language used in the development of enterprise and commercial applications. Microsoft’s Visual C++ became the premier language of choice among developers and programmers.

Late binding refers to function calls that are not resolved until run time. Virtual functions are used to achieve late binding. When access is via a base pointer or reference, the virtual function actually called is determined by the type of object pointed to by the pointer.

It is stored in the most significant bit. Bit is ON if -ve, OFF if +ve.