April 14, 2000

Question: Can you provide any insight on whether spider-based search engines, like AltaVista and Inktomi, can index DHTML text? Answer: The phrase “DHTML text” can mean different things to different

Question: Is there a way (using VB) to load a Web page (without actually showing the page through a browser or otherwise) and then extract the HTML code for use

Question: I am trying to convert all the LAYER tags to DIV tags. In my code, I am using LAYER.SRC to execute a sever-side macro that returns an HTML document,

Question: How you to make balloon labels show when the user moves the mouse over an object? Answer: In VB6, most objects have a ToolTipText property that gives you that

Question: Is it possible to have subprocedures or subfunctions in Visual Basic?For example, in COM components we find properties being accessed using the following: myObject.Column(“myColumn”).Hide = True In this Column

Question: I want to make my site cross-browser compatible, but I rely on a lot of iframes in the IE version. According to the original HTML 4 specification, it should

Question: Does STL use any synchronization, or do I have to implement it myself by critical section? Answer: The C++ standard doesn’t specify whether STL is thread-safe or not (which

Question: I want to call another function only if the key pressed is a letter. Is there a way to check whether the key the user has typed is a

Many programs access files either to read, write, or append data. For this the program needs to know where the physical file is located, besides the name of the file.