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April 20, 1999

SystemDirectory – The path of the System directory

Private Declare Function GetSystemDirectory Lib “kernel32” Alias _ “GetSystemDirectoryA” (ByVal lpBuffer As String, _ ByVal nSize As Long) As Long ‘ The path of the System directoryFunction SystemDirectory() As String

Interpreted or Compiled?

It is highly unfortunate that Visual Basic doesn’t offer a way to execute a group of statements only when the program is interpreted in the environment or only when it

Properties of Static Storage

Global objects, static data members of a class, namespace variables, and static variables in functions reside in static memory. Static objects are allocated by the linker and their address remains

Using the Bulk Copy Program Properly

The Bulk Copy Program is still a handy utility for transferring data in and out of tables in SQL. However, using it properly requires that you learn the various command

Specifying the Locale

Closely related to the issue of internationalization is the java.util.Locale class. An instance of Locale represents a geographic, political, or cultural region, and may or may not correspond to a