April 20, 1999

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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