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Serve Business Graphics from Any XML Source

Editor’s Note: The Visual Studio project included in the source code for this article requires ‘Office XP Web Components’ (OCW10). The development and run-time machines must have these installed. You

The Help Generator add-in

This add-in tries to generate a complete HTML project from your VBproject forms. It iterates over the forms in your VB project and generates an htm file for all the

Serialization and Events

Andrea Zanetti Riccardo Munisso Downolad code from here Introduction Serialization is a very powerful characteristic of the .NET Framework. Serialization make the task of object persistency very easy but there

Handle child XML nodes with care

When you work with XML documents loaded into an XmlDocument class, you often need to examine the contents of child nodes. The XMLDOM programming interface purposedly provides the ChildNodes property.

Automatically hyperlink URLs in ASP.NET Pages

Suppose that your ASP.NET pages display contents read from database fields. Suppose also that some of those fields may contain URLs or email addresses. A typical example is when you

A better way to query for a single node

In the XmlNode class, that is the class that provides node functionality in an XMLDOM representation of an XML document, the SelectNodes (and the ancillary SelectSingleNode) method exploits the XPath

Persist ADO.NET extended properties

Many ADO.NET classes, including DataSet, DataTable, and DataColumn, use the ExtendedProperties property to enable users to add custom information. Think of the ExtendedProperties property as a kind of generic cargo

Continue After Hitting an Error

If you use VB6 to write COM programs that raise errors, it seems impossible to continue after hitting one of them. However, the (almost undocumented) commands ALT+F8 and ALT+F5 let

Generate Rule-Based Random Strings

Use this function to generate random strings that abide by certain criteria. It Related Posts Verizon Quietly Closes Its Cloud Computing ServiceThe Fundamentals of Windows LoggingGoogle launches free dark web

Change Oracle and SQL Server Passwords

You can change database passwords from within VB to control more of your application Related Posts How to Disable Auto-commit Mode in Spring BootDisappointing story on memory optimizationSecurity and Speakers

Generate OLE DB Connection Strings

Many VB projects need a database connection string. But there Related Posts Scientist Tool Helps Rewrite Ruby CodeClimate change threatens coastal property valuesMeta Quest 3S VR headset price leakedHow to

Create installations with Visual Studio Installer

Introducing Visual StudioInstaller VisualStudio Installer is a free tool from Microsoft for creating installations forWindows applications. Visual Studio Installer is available in two Englishversions: version 1.0 works on Windows 98

Cleanup Your IF Statements with IN

IF statements can become quite long when you’re testing for multiple values. Using the IN expression can make them more readable.So, instead of typing: IF (@testvar = 1 or @testvar

Use enum Terminated with count

Always use an enum instead of defines and always close the list with an additional count. This makes life simpler and helps the compiler.Instead of defines: #define TypeA 0#define TypeB

OpenXML for Multiple Trips to the Database

Suppose you need to make multiple inserts (or updates or deletes) to a SQL Server database?for instance, inserting items in a shopping cart. In the past, you needed to loop

Fixed-length Strings Using Templates

Instead of writing a string class that contains a (char *), why not write a string class with a fixed char array? Of course, it would be repetitive if you

A Sparse Array of Any Type with Fast Access

A sparse array saves memory by not allocating memory for elements that are not initialized or to which you don’t need access. They’re quite easy using the STL map.This example

Output Data into a File

Use the following code: #include void main(){ char name[15]; double salary; ofstream outFile(“FileName.txt”, ios::in); while (outFile){ outFile >> name >> salary; }} Related Posts Google Cloud Databases Now Generally AvailableSchedule

Outputting Currencies

How to print out a Currency in Java is an often overlooked topic. How should Currency be printed out in an international, standardized way?The java.text.NumberFormat class is used for outputting

Copy Data from One File to Another

This wrapper class “FileCopier” copies data from one file to another. This class uses another class: “StreamCopier”. /** * Class: FileCopier * Author: Vivek Bagade * Date: 8/31/2001 * Description:

Generate Thumbnails Out of a Larger Image

This is useful in a Web-based Photo Gallery kind of application, where you need to automatically generate multiple sizes of the same image. class ThumbnailGenerator { public void generateThumbnail (String

A Cleaner Way of Doing String Comparison

If you have a method into which you pass a String parameter that you compare with another string then: void foo( String str ){ String CONST_STR = “bar”; // DON’T

Debugging Variables Made Easy

At one time or another, all ASP progrmmers have used RESPONSE.WRITE to write out a variable on the screen, ensuring that the variable is passing correctly or has the correct