October 9, 2001

Beginning with SQL Server 2000, Microsoft added support for SQL-XML interoperability. They did this by expanding some statements that we all know

Memory is precious in Palm OS, so you can’t afford any memory leaks in programs. Therefore, it’s very essential to detect any memory leaks. To do this put breakpoints in

Beginning with SQL Server 2000, Microsoft added support to retrieve data from SQL Server databases by using an URL address. To do this, you must create a virtual root, that

Everybody knows that the WM_PAINT message is passed to a window whenever it needs to be painted. Usually, we code all of our painting instruction in the handler of WM_PAINT,

In order to increase the efficiency of your linear searching, add the item you are searching at the end of the list (either an array or linked list) and write

The C++ runtime library includes a heap manager (subroutines responsible for maintaining the heap). The heap manager does bookkeeping to keep track of which parts of the heap have been

This is a simple way to find out the word count in a comma delimited string: declare @mystring varchar(200)set @mystring=”vb,asp,sqlserver,html”select (len(@mystring)-len(replace(@mystring,’,’,”))+1) The following code will parse the delimited string: –variable

Debugging a multi-threaded program in Visual C++ may be difficult, especially when switching between multiple threads using the Debug/Threads menu. One efficient way to distinguish threads during debugging is to

If you find yourself constantly commenting and uncommenting bits of code during development, this tip could come in handy. Normally, you’d do something like this: #define /* #undef */ _FOObool