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Featured articles and date of posting or last revision:

• Verifying Addresses OnLine

  • 1/25/10

• Screen Scraping with Alpha Five (PDF file) Download source files

  • 1/1/07

• Make Your Web Pages Interactive with AHAH, Javascript and CSS (PDF file) Download source files

  • 12/25/06

• Using Report Events (PDF file)

  • 8/6/06

• Using ActiveX Controls with A5v7 (PDF file)

  • 1/29/06

• Using Javascript with WAS

  • 9/12/05

• A Progress Bar for the Web Application Server

  • 1/15/05

• Ron's Improved Form Update Utility(download available)

  • 6/12/04

• Using Personal Web Server, Apache, and Alpha Web Server(download available)

  • 6/6/04

• Automatic Printer Overrides in A5v5(download available)

  • 1/25/04

• Setting up a Linux Server for Alpha Five

  • 11/30/03

• Great Circle calculations in Alpha Five(download available)

  • 7/12/03

• Add a Floating Calendar to Your Alpha Five Application

  • 7/7/03

• Add Graphing to Your Alpha Five Application

  • 5/22/03

• An Improved Way to Delete Duplicate Entries

  • 4/20/03

• Month-At-A-Glance in Xdialog: Presentation at the April 2003 Alpha Five Conference

  • 4/6/03

• Lock your application during Idle Time

  • 9/7/02

• A Better Way to Initialize Global Variables in Your Application

  • 7/14/02

• Creating an Index for a Report

  • 7/14/02

• Alpha Five and Windows Scripting

  • 6/16/02

• Finian's Revised Database Copy and Append Utilities (download available)

  • 6/8/02

• Memos and Browses That Work (download available)

  • 4/21/02

• Correction to Your Own Posting Rules (download available)

  • 4/21/02

• March 2002 Conference Presentations (download available)

  • 3/24/02

• Exporting to Quickbooks®

  • 3/11/01

• Orphaned Sets

  • 12/14/00

• The Josephus Problem

  • 11/19/00

• Improved Table Lookups (download available)

  • 10/22/00

• Sending Control Codes from Alpha Five (download available)

  • 10/12/00

• Intelligent Lookups

  • 9/28/00

• User-Modifiable Reports and Letters (download available)

  • 8/26/00

• Sieve of Eratosthenes (download available)

  • 8/23/00

• Finding Missing Sequence Numbers (download available)

  • 8/21/00

• Barry's Tools: A Complete Mini-App (download available)

  • 8/20/00

• Query on Child Records (download available)

  • 7/17/00

• Configuring Your Application Installation (download available)

  • 7/16/00

• Add Zip-file Archiving to A5v4 (download available)

  • 7/8/00

• A Network Messaging System in Alpha Five (download available)

  • 7/7/00

• Quick Tip: Keep Track of Your Application's Version Number

  • 7/1/00

• Avoiding Heap Lock Errors

  • 6/18/00

• Lookups on Multiple Fields

  • 4/30/00

• Create a Two-Tier Tabbed Form (download available)

  • 3/25/00

• Quick Tip: Modify User Menu Choices(download available)

  • 3/25/00

• Resize your Forms for Different Monitors (download available)

  • 3/19/00

• Quick Tip: Trapping Mouse Clicks with a User Object

  • 3/17/00

• Quick Tip: Highlight the Active Row in a Browse

  • 3/7/00

• Quick Tip: Advance Records in an Embedded Browse

  • 2/28/00

• Quick Tip: Designing Apps for Different Monitors

  • 2/23/00

• Scheduler Part 3: How It's Done(download available)

  • 2/19/00

• More on Email from A5v4

  • 2/16/00

• Send Email from A5v4

  • 2/6/00

• Scheduler Part 2: Week At A Glance

  • 2/5/00

• Even More Graphs (download available)

  • 2/3/00

• Scheduler Part I: User-customizable field attributes

  • 2/1/00

• Another take on application registration

  • 1/31/00

• Fixing a Y2K Glitch in Outlook® (download available)

  • 1/29/00

• Pie Charts and the Windows API (download available)

  • 1/25/00

• The Case of the Disappearing Records

  • 1/23/00

• Customize your Application for Each User (download available)

  • 1/2/00

• Another approach to licensing an application

  • 1/1/00

• Addins in version 5

  • 12/18/99

• Rich Text Letters (download available)

  • 12/12/99

• Bar Graphs Revisited(download available)

  • 12/11/99

• A Locate Button Script

  • 12/4/99

• Dot variables in Alpha Five

  • 11/25/99

• A concurrent licensing system for applications (download available)

  • 11/21/99

• A scheduler for multiple service bays(download available)

  • 11/20/99

• Improved capitalization checker

  • 11/19/99

• A method for distributing applications to users

  • 11/17/99

• Another Approach to Backups

  • 11/15/99

• Numerical analysis of tables and files

  • 11/12/99

• Calendar Planner in Alpha Five

  • 11/7/99

• Fill a Lookup Field with Multiple Entries from a Lookup Table

  • 10/26/99

• Give Users the Ability to Change Background Colors

  • 10/25/99

• Copy Records to Diskette

  • 10/5/99

• More on those pesky duplicate records

  • 9/28/99

• A Cascading Progressive Search

  • 9/27/99

• September Clinic: How to Create a Scrolling Browse

  • 9/18/99

• September Clinic: How to Create a Blinking Field

  • 9/15/99

• Add spell checking to your forms

  • 9/7/99

• Quick Tip: Conversion from standard calendar to Jewish calendar

  • 9/5/99

• Quick Tip: A general-purpose function to detect duplicate table entries

  • 9/4/99

• Create a Multirecord Form(download available)

  • 8/31/99

• Write Once to Two Tables

  • 8/30/99

• Detect duplicate entries in your tables

  • 8/29/99

• Add "greenbars" and pleasing line breaks to your reports (download available)

  • 8/26/99

• Some exercises on variable scoping

  • 8/26/99

• Quick Tip: Auto-populate your database

  • 8/9/99

• Restructure a Table with Xbasic(download available)

  • 8/9/99

• Performing Queries on Child Tables

  • 7/31/99

• Quick Tip: Force a Lookup Field to PopUp in Edit Mode

  • 7/24/99

• Quick Tip: Change a Button's Text and Action

  • 7/4/99

• Quick Tip: Close Alpha Five with a Hotspot

  • 7/3/99

• Simplify your Application for Better Performance

  • 6/28/99

• Close Down Your Network Users from within A5

  • 6/28/99

• Search on a Child Table's Record Value

  • 6/12/99

• Linking a Set Using More Than One Linking Field

  • 6/10/99

• Backup your Data from within Alpha Five

  • 5/16/99

• Merge Your Alpha Five Data with a Word Processor

  • 5/14/99

• A Mouse Rollover for Alpha Five

  • 5/9/99

• Mysteries of Query and Filter Syntax

  • 5/1/99

• Display your Alpha tables on the Web

  • 4/28/99

• FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) about using Alpha Five

  • 4/25/99

• An Amortization Schedule in Alpha Five (download available)

  • 4/12/99

• Alpha Five becomes Web-Savvy

  • 4/4/99

• Hey! Where did I store the XYZ Company database?

  • 4/3/99

• Hurray for an Array

  • 3/29/99

• Saving an Invoice Total into Your Invoice Header

  • 3/25/99

• A Licensing System for Selling an Application

  • 3/21/99

• Create a Bar Graph in Alpha
  Five

  • 2/24/99

• Generate Unique Random Numbers

  • 2/21/99

• Give your users 2 copies of your application

  • 2/15/99

• A Calendar Utility for Alpha Five

  • 1/22/99

• Improving Referential Integrity

  • 1/18/99

• Balancing a checkbook in Alpha Five

  • 1/9/99

• Documentation errors and omissions and ODBC .ini files

  • 1/3/99

• Read a "Bubble Form"

  • 12/13/98

• Network Optimization in Alpha Five v. 4

  • 11/21/98

• A Y2K library for A5v1

  • 11/14/98

• Create a self-filling lookup field in version 4

  • 11/7/98

• Turning off Modeless Data Entry in versions 3 and 4

  • 10/19/98

• Multitable queries in versions 3 and 4

  • 10/12/98

• A Date Puzzler

  • 9/29/98

• A5v4: ODBC returns to Alpha Five

  • 9/20/98

• Eval() and EvalValid() - 2 functions you should know

  • 9/8/98

• A5v4: Use the OnKey event to create a progressive search form

  • 9/5/98

• Export records and summaries (download available)

  • 8/1/98

• Pay multiple invoices automatically

  • 7/27/98

• Keep your field rules active in Xbasic

  • 7/18/98

• Fun with recursion - Towers of Hanoi(download available)

  • 7/14/98

• Swat those pesky zero balances from your report

  • 7/6/98

• A multipurpose Search script

  • 7/4/98

• A relational example

  • 6/30/98

• Numbering browse lines

  • 6/23/98

• Write your own autoincrement rule

  • 6/20/98

• Storing variables in a table

  • 6/16/98

• Time card

  • 6/13/98

• Filtered lookups (version 3)

  • 6/11/98

• Duplicate a set's entries

  • 6/11/98

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