January 29, 2000

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Undo changes in a TextBox control

The TextBox control supports the capability to undo changes, but there is no property or method that exposes this feature. You can achieve the same goal with a a set

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Create TextBox with dithered background

If your video display has 256 colors or less and you assign a dithered color to the BackColor property of a TextBox control, you’ll find that the background color under

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Be Aware Of The Signed Byte

Java lets you cast an integer into a byte and vice versa. While this provides power and flexibility, we should be aware that Java’s byte data type is signed, meaning

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Validate Dates With Java

We can use java.text.DateFormat to validate dates. DateFormat is an abstract class for date/time formatting subclasses. It provides parsing methods for conversion of text into date. If the conversion cannot

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StringTokenizer and the Missing Token

If we have a comma delimited string like “token0,token1,token2,,token4” that has some token(s) missing, and we try to use java.util.StringTokenizer to place each delimited token in a slot of an