August 2, 1999

After upgrading your system to FrontPage 2000, you may get an error message when you try to run the FrontPage Server Administrator from the Windows NT Option Pack group. The FP Server Administrator has been moved alongside the Internet Service Manager (ISM) in the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) as a

It is useful to follow these guidelines when you develop COM components that need to talk to VB. 1. Only use VARIANT data types in your interface . Although VB canhandle more complex data types, using just VARIANT lets the components be used by less sophisticated automation clients like vbscrip,

Because GUID are 16 bytes in size, you don’t want to pass them by value. Instead, you should pass them by reference. This is why Queryinterface takes a constant reference. If you get tired of writing const IID&, you can always use the equivalent expression REFIID. You can also use

You can experience a great increase in database performance if you utilize connection pooling. Creating a connection to a database takes a lot of time and resources. If every you create a connection instance for every page, a new connection must be created and then deleted once the page executes.