August 28, 2001

HTML elements can be made inactive and non-responsive by using the disable attribute. When HTML controls are disabled, they appear dimmed and don’t respond to user input. This is useful

This is achieved by using the Windows Script Host. First, create an instance of the object WScript.Shell. Then, use its Run method to execute the DOS command. For example, say

Setting Response.Expires to a negative number or 0 disables caching. Sometimes, the use of Response.Expires = -1 doesn’t work because of mismatches between the clocks on the server and the

From the command prompt, type: nbtstat -R This will reload the lmhosts file, and you won’t have to reboot the system for the changes to take affect.

Before starting, add the Microsoft DAO 3.51 Object Library Reference. Private Sub Form_Load() Dim WkSp As Workspace Dim dB As Database ‘Define the file .MDW where are the users and

You can use the ‘With … End With’ statements if you are using VBScript 5.0 or later. It helps to improve performance. This runs slower: PersonObj.FirstName = “Sandeep”PersonObj.LastName = “Gain”PersonObj.City

Oracle DBA’s can run this query to terminate sessions if users are inactive for more than certain time period for any Security/Performance reasons. select s.username “User”, s.osuser “OS User”, s.sid

Use Environ var. This Works Only on Windows NT and 2000. Me.Label1 = “Temp Dir – ” & Environ$(“temp”) Me.Label2 = “Sys Dir – ” & Environ$(“windir”) &IIf(Len(Environ$(“OS”)), “SYSTEM32”, “SYSTEM”)

MSVC has a small, but annoying bug with the scope of variables defined in “for” loops. For example, the following fragment is valid C++, but will not compile on MSVC: