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Make a Collection of All Inherited Classes

Say you want to have several classes-modifiers, and you want to execute a certain virtual function for each of them. The ideal solution is to create an abstract class with

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Dynamic SQL Queries in a Stored Procedure

Dynamic SQL queries allow users to create statements on the fly using parameters or variables. The EXECUTE (EXEC) statement is used to implement dynamic SQL solutions in the stored procedure.

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Abandoning the Fantasy of VB Migration Wizardry

or all the functional enhancements that .NET brings to a developer’s world and the excitement one might be feeling about putting these advances into practice, the truth is that this

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Reallocating Memory Pointers

In any decent sized application, one of the most common activities is string manipulation at one level or another. One of the most common problems with string manipulation is the

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Reading from a Property File

Sometimes it’s useful to get information from a text property file, especially when you want to change values inside classes without recompiling them every time. A simple (and fast) way

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Run Java Applications Using the Many JARs File

You can do this without using the classpath directive at the command line. How? Easy! Just write a launcher! Here’s the code: /* Allow you to type “java QuickRunner” instead

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Send an HTML Email Without Using the JavaMail API

Send an email without using JavaMail API, by using the Java Core packages(java.net.*;java.io.*) to pass three parameters. The first parameter is the SMTP mail server, the second parameter is the

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Standardize Error Reporting Messages

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Capture a Reference to a UserControl

Many programmers are familiar with declaring an object variable in class modules and other places to capture events from a form and handle them in a generic way: Private WithEvents

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Find the Associated Executable

Sometimes you might need to determine the full path name to a Windows executable file associated with a given file extension. The usual recourse is to use the FindExecutable API.

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No More Blank Data Reports

When generating a data report based on an ADO recordset linked to a remote database (such as Oracle or SQL Server), you can end up with a blank report. Try

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Detect a Change of a Windows User’s Locale

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Modernize Your MDI Apps

The MDI look seems to have gone out of favor recently, judging from the popularity of the Explorer and Outlook styles in modern apps. Maybe that Related Posts Hybrid Integrations

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Clean Up the MonthView

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Copy Listview Contents to a Clipboard

This easy routine copies the contents of a listview, including column headers, to the clipboard for pasting into Excel or other applications: Public Sub SendToClipboard(ByVal ListViewObj _As MSComctlLib.ListView)Dim ListItemObj As

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Create a VB Error Message Reference List

Have you ever wanted to have a hard copy listing all the VB error messages? Create a new standard EXE VB application and drop this code into the Load event

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Creating Custom Configuration Settings in ASP.NET

SP.NET Web applications have a built-in way to access simple name/value configuration data. In the Web.config file, you can create an section that lets you store simple name/value pairs. For

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Clipping the mouse to a rectangle area

The Clip property of the Cursor is the rectangle within which the mouse cursor is confined, or its value is Nothing if the mouse can move over the entire screen.

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Pasting data from the Clipboard

Pasting data from the clipboard requires more code because you must ascertain whether the clipboard contains data in one of the formats you’re willing to process. First, use the Clipboard.GetDataObject

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Code Access Security in the .NET Framework

n case you ask yourself how this security model can be useful, just consider if the Windows operating system could currently apply a CAS such that no code downloaded from

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ASP.NET process recycling

Application recycling is a great feature that lets you configure an application so that ASP.NET automatically shuts it down and restarts it after a given period or a given number