Creating folders with the file system object model can help eliminate errors and long folder-existence checks?especially if you are attempting to create already existing folders. Dim fso as new FileSystemObjectDim fldr as FolderOn Error Goto FolderError’foldername is the name of the folder you wish to’create passed by value into this
Say you have a user structure and a container of pointers to that user structure. You need to sort the container based only on some structure’s members. The solution is to define the structure’s specific function objects less and greater and to pass to the sort algorithm the appropiate function
When you execute , it generates the local ANT macros ${TSTAMP} and ${DSTAMP}. These are the time and date as numeric strings. They can then be used to dynamically generate timestamp strings. Here is an example in a simple ANT buildfile that generates a timestamped jarfile: The above build.xml outputs
Sometimes you need your resultset sorted a particular way and using the primary key doesn’t accomplish what you need. One way to get around this is to create a sortable column dynamically in your query using the CASE function. SELECT name, title, priority =(CASE titlewhen ‘President’ then 1 when ‘Vice
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This SQL function is similar to the VB split function. It takes a nvarchar delimeted list and delimeter and returns a table with the values split on delimeter. if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id = object_id(N'[dbo].[UTILfn_Split]’) and xtype in (N’FN’, N’IF’, N’TF’))drop function [dbo].[UTILfn_Split]GO create function dbo.UTILfn_Split( @String