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ClearRunHistory – Clearing the Run history

‘ Clear the Run History’ The MRU list is kept available until Explorer is restartedSub ClearRunHistory() Dim keyName As String = “SoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorer” _ & “RunMRU” ‘ delete the key that

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Are You Missing Out on Code Generation?

hy do people use computers? We use computers because they make us more productive. Using a word processor is more efficient than writing a manuscript in pencil. An electronic spreadsheet

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Fake Memory Leaks

Global objects and objects declared in a namespace scope are constructed before main() starts. The implementation runs special startup code that constructs such objects (including cin and cout) and performs

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The Database Holds Your Core Assets—Protect It First

he security focus in your organization is probably misplaced, according to two database security experts at the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco. Aaron Newman, Chief Technology Officer at Application

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RefTools’ Algorithms: Look-up Strategies

his is the first in a short series of articles describing Visual Basic components from the RefTools add-in. A first conclusion is that simple binary search of a sorted list

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SearchFileInDirTree – Searches a file on a directory tree

Shared Function _ SearchTreeForFile(ByVal rootPath As String, ByVal inputPathName As String, _ ByVal outputPathBuffer As System.Text.StringBuilder) As BooleanEnd Function’ Returns the complete path+name of the filename or a null string

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SearchFileOnPath – Searching a file on the system

Shared Function _ SearchPath(ByVal tartPath As String, ByVal fileName As String, _ ByVal extension As String, ByVal bufferLength As Integer, _ ByVal buffer As System.Text.StringBuilder, ByVal filePart As String) As

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IsDriveReady – Returns whether a drive is ready

‘ Returns a boolean indicating whether a given drive is ready’ Example: check if the floppy disk drive is ready’ Debug.WriteLine(IsDriveReady(“a”))Function IsDriveReady(ByVal driveLetter As String) As Boolean If driveLetter.Length =

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XML Standards Provide Web Services Security

verybody’s talking about Web services. It’s the buzz term of the moment. The promise of application-to-application interactions using remote procedure calls over Web connections has grabbed the attention of many

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Intro: Getting Started With BREW

Before you can start coding, you need a little background. First, What is BREW?The BREW SDK is a set of API’s that facilitate the development of softwareapplications targeting wireless handsets.

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Is Documentation Holding Open Source Back?

pen source software has been extremely successful at the technology level. Apache, Mozilla, Linux, Perl, Python?the list of stable and robust open source software is impressive and growing. So why