October 2, 2000

Question: Given: pre>typedef struct{ byte a; byte b; byte c; byte d; byte e;} LETTERS; sizeof(LETTERS) returns eight bytes because of padding by the compiler for alignment.How can I determine how many bytes were actually defined, not allocated? Answer: There is no standard function or operator to detect how many

Question: When I creating a class, I declare several large arrays, and some integers within one ofof class function members.Within main, I call new, making the object declared on the heap. Are the arrays and interges also delcared on the heap? Answer: It depends on how you declared these variables

Question: I have an MTS object that contains an ADO connection object which I use in an ASP page. I look at the MTS console and confirm that the package gets activated, and I use ODBC performance-monitoring counters to verifty a connection gets pooled. But when I manually shutdown the

‘ List all the File extensions that are registered in the system” return a bi-dimension string array, where’ arr(0, i) is the file extension’ arr(1, i) is the coresponding ProgID’ arr(2, i) is the associated description’ arr(3, i) is the location of the executable file” Example:’ ‘ fill a listbox