When you design a Web page using frames, you expect visitors to start at the address of the frameset holder, for example, default.htm. However, people who are linking from a search engine may end up bypassing the frameset. The link points directly to a page that was never meant to
You can print canned reports in an Access database from VB in different ways. I created this routine to print any report with any criteria or filter from any database. It opens Access with the user- or program-controlled database, then opens the report in the mode specified. In order for
This code illustrates a VB5 routine that calls a given server’s stored functions or procedures. The first parameter is the stored function procedure name that resides on the server (ORACLE, SQL Server, and so on). The second parameter is a dynamic array that takes an arbitrary number of input arguments
You can quickly create IDL (Interactive Data Language) that is compatible with Visual Basic by simply building a server with the Visual Basic IDE that contains the intended interface definitions. Examine the server’s type library with the OLE View utility. The type library viewer of OLE View reverse-engineers the equivalent
If you’re creating a Jet-based multiuser database system, you’ll sometimes need to know who is currently connected to the shared database. To get this information in situations where you don’t want to integrate a full Access security system, you have two choices. First, you can code in your own “connected
You should not derive one user-defined COM interface from another user-defined interface when it comes to implementing COM interfaces in VB. A Visual Basic class can inherit from an interface, but one interface can’t inherit from another. This means that Visual Basic allows only one level of interface inheritance. Visual
Question: I am using a COM object written in Visual C++ using MFC. One of the object methods has a signature like this:void Function(BSTR, BSTR, long*)Whenever I call this method I get a type mismatch on the last parameter. How can I pass a long* from an ASP script either
Question: I am importing an existing site into a Visual InterDev project. However, a key virtual directory is not being included in this import. How can I force/cajole InterDev to include this directory and its contents? This directory is not referenced in or by the rest of the site directly
Question: Is there any way to call a function automatically when an ASP page ends? I know about Application_OnEnd and Session_OnEnd but isn’t there any “Page_OnEnd” function or some way of simulating it? Answer: The key here is what you mean by “when an ASP page ends.” If you are