April 28, 2000

If you can be sure that your users are only running Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher, you can take advantage of Remote Data Services (RDS), now part of MDAC 2.x.

The most common way to call a script function is to have an element trap an event, which in turn calls the function, as in: Click here But what if

There are basically two ways to get recordsets with Remote Data Services (RDS). You can either use the system-provided RDSServer.DataFactory object or you can write your own full-blown custom business

One of the handy features of working with the ActiveX Data Object (ADO) is the ability to load the results of SQL select statements into a Recordset. Once you have

When you trap a keyboard event with any of the keyboard event handlers (onKeyUp, onKeyDown, or onKeyPress), the event object’s keyCode property contains the character value of the key that

One of the most common mistakes developers can make is to extensively use global variables. While they are sometimes necessary, global variables can cause problems in code that are both

Microsoft’s IE4 supports the ability to change just about any CSS1 style attribute dynamically. To access an element’s style, use the style object property that corresponds to the style attribute.

If you want to compare the values in two different textboxes, and you don’t want case to be a factor in whether or not the values are equivalent, you can

VBScript’s random number generator, Rnd, only generates random numbers between 0 and 1. If you need numbers in a different range, use the following formula: Int ((UpperBound – LowerBound +