The following function is an efficient way of converting strings from one character set to another. Using an array of 256 characters as a conversion table, the attached function replaces
Many times, a program crashes due to multiple deletes on the same pointer. In some cases, this is due to a programming error that can be removed. There are situations,
It’s common practice in C, to do a memset on structures, in order to initialize all member variables to some default value, usually NULL. Similarly, you can use memset to
It is common knowledge that the only difference between a struct and a union in C is that all elements of a union share the same memory location but the
I have frequently seen bulletin board requests on how to create MSACCESS databases with VB. To do this, add a reference to the Microsoft DAO _._ Object Library (I am
ComboBox controls, out of the box, don’t help complete phrases as they are typed in. The sample code below accomplishes that task. cmb is the name of the ComboBox to
An object in a Netscape Directory Server can only be deleted if it is a terminal node. This restriction causes the writing of source code to delete an object and
In almost all Web based applications, parameters received from a previous form as a query string will have to be passed to the next form as the same. However, the
It’s really a pain to continually register, unregister, and reregister a DLL (or worse, many DLLs) using REGSVR32. Importing the following into your registry, allows you to set up options