March 2, 2000

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Forcing Data Entry in Uppercase

Question: I would like to force data entered into a form to be uppercase. This is probably basic, but I can’t figure it out! Answer: What you are looking for

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Resizing Forms and Controls

ne of the more common questions here at Ask the VB Pro has always been how to automatically handle the resizing of forms and controls. Unfortunately, the short answer is

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Unzipping Files with java.util.zip.ZipFile

he Java core packages include jave.util.zip, which is useful forcreating and reading compressed files or archives in the ZIP and GZIPformats. ZIP files form the basis for the JAR file

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Convert Schemas to Documents

he way that XML is being used, of late, is beginning to send tremors throughout much of the programming world. Part of this has to do with an obvious logical

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A Universal Data Format

Data types larger than the size of a byte aren’t portable because of the different endian-ordering of each hardware architecture. This means that passing an int in its binary form

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The 80-20 Optimization Rule

It’s a fact that applications spend 80 percent of their time executing 20 percent of their code. Some even claim that the ratio is higher: 90-10. Usually, programmers can’t assess

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Optimizing Nested Loops

Several compilers need this hint from the programmer while others are clever enough to figure it out automatically. When you have nested loops, declare the counter of the most deeply-nested