To debug an MTS component in Visual Basic 6.0, make sure that the MTSTransactionMode property on MTS Objects (VB 6.0 Classes) is set to a value other than 0-NotAnMtsObject. When
When trying to navigate through a complex class hierarchy from any given instance of an object, it’s useful to be able to reference its parent. But how do you clean
Some classes in the Standard Library do not have a virtual destructor or virtual member functions by design. These classes include std::string, std::complex, and all STL containers. The lack of
Many applications have an option to show the toolbars as text and image or text-only. I have seen programmers handle this with two toolbars and show them based on the
You can protect the server from a crashing application by running the Web applications in their own memory space. To configure IIS to do this, launch the Internet Service Manager
Passing a derived object by value to a function that takes a base object by value may cause a problem known as “object slicing”; every additional data member declared in
This little routine demonstrates how easily you can determine the number of substrings within a string, given any specified separator character(s). Pass the string to be parsed, and the separator,
Sometimes, you need to force an object to destroy itself because its destructor performs an operation needed immediately. For example, when you want to release a mutex or close a
hen using a class that implements an interface, it can be frustrating to have to create two variables to reference all the properties of both the interface class and the