June 2, 1999

C code, which of course is unaware of object semantics, can access the data members of a C++ object directly, but certain requirements must be met. There are some guarantees

You can use ODBC settings to avoid truncation warnings from MS SQL Server. These warnings occur when the application tries to insert or update data that is larger than its

Piped streams are typically used in separate threads. One thread writes output to a PipedOutputStream. The other thread reads the same data from a PipedInputStream. The two streams are connected

In a typical application using piped streams, an object of type PipedInputStream and an object of type PipedOutputStream are started as separate threads. One thread uses a PipedOutputStream to output

If you set objects to Nothing, then test their nothingness, this suggestion might help you. If you declare an object as New and later set it to Nothing, VB won’t

The Standard Template Library (STL) provides only one type of associative container–the sorted associative container. The STL sorted associative containers are map, multimap, set, and multiset. However, there is another

If you are preparing Active Server Pages code for printing or for code review it helps to make the script as tidy as possible. A free utility called HTML Tidy

If you develop large apps, this routine can help you keep a count of calls to change the mousepointer. The routine, called MouseStack, keeps a stack of those calls and

You can make your TreeView or ListView control behave like a menu so that as you move the mouse cursor over the items, the highlighted item moves with the cursor.