October 23, 2002

Slip Sliding Away: Build an HTML Slider Control

October 23, 2002

lease fill in this form. Those five words make anyone’s heart sink. Filling in forms is rarely a delight, and Web forms are no exception. The more user-friendly you can

RunningAsExe – Determine whether the code is running in an EXE or DLL

October 23, 2002

‘ Return True if the application is running as an EXE’ Return False if the application is running as a DLLFunction RunningAsExe() As Boolean ‘ get the codebase of the

Dealing with DllImport

October 23, 2002

Part 1: Although the .NET framework encapsulates a large portion of the Win32 API, it’s sometimes still necessary to call the API from your managed code using the DllImport attribute?and

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October 23, 2002

You can use the technique for an “undo” menu/toolbar option. Use a collection instead of a listbox to reduce overhead. Support for both LIFO and FIFO is also included: Public

Create ISAM Files Out of Thin Air

October 23, 2002

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Find the Cause of Query Malfunctions

October 23, 2002

This tip is for SQL Server 6.5 and up. When debugging a SELECT query, add an absolute true condition as the first condition of the WHERE clause: SELECT au_lname, au_fnameFROM

Get Dynamic Array Information

October 23, 2002

Use the GetSafeArrayInfo function to rip the lid off a SAFEARRAY. It allows the caller to identify the number of dimensions and number of elements for each dimension (among other

To use the FileSystemObject, you need to reference the Microsoft Scripting Runtime: Public Function GetExecutableFileVersion(ByVal _ Filename As String) As String Dim FileObj As Scripting.FileSystemObject ‘ Create Object Set FileObj

Let MTS Handle Transaction Management

October 23, 2002

When you call a stored procedure in SQL Server that performs data manipulation on the database from a Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) transaction, let MTS handle all the transaction management.