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ArrayListJoin – Merging two ArrayList objects

‘ A reusable function that merges two ArrayList objects’ Example:’ Dim al As New ArrayList()’ al.Add(“Jack”)’ al.Add(“Mary”)’ val.Add(“Bob”)’ al.Add(“Tom”)’ ‘ Dim al2 As New ArrayList()’ al2.Add(“Frank”)’ al2.Add(“Lee”)’ al2.Add(“Nick”)’ ‘ al

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Book Excerpt: Get an ”Overview of SANs Technology”

he Essential Guide to Storage Area Networks is the readable, up-to-the-minute guide to SANs for every decision-maker. It covers the entire SAN lifecycle, from planning and strategy to implementation and

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Peeking Under the Lid of Open Source .NET CLI Implementations

David Stutz,Microsoft Francois Jacques,Corel’s Rotor Jean ClaudeBatista,Corel’s Rotor Miguel de Icaza,Mono (Ximian) Rhys Weatherly,Portable .NET As the new open-source implementations of the .NET platform take shape, developers targeting .NET face

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Slip Sliding Away: Build an HTML Slider Control

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

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Dealing with DllImport

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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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

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Create ISAM Files Out of Thin Air

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Find the Cause of Query Malfunctions

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

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Get Dynamic Array Information

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

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Return File Version Info

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

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Let MTS Handle Transaction Management

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.

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Loop Using GetTickCount or timeGetTime

This TickDiff function returns the difference of two calls to GetTickCount or timeGetTime, taking into account things such as VB Related Posts Get All the Available Time ZonesQuickly Get a

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Tweak the Key and Mouse Events

Many VB objects have KeyDown, KeyUp, MouseDown, MouseUp, and MouseMove events. They Related Posts Explore the New Updates to Power BI DesktopGoogle Cloud Databases Now Generally AvailableMicrosoft Announces Azure IoT

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Compare Oracle and SQL Server Strings

Oracle and SQL Server treat strings slightly differently Related Posts Intel announces major restructuring amid $1.6B lossSQL JOINsThe Big Data IllusionIBM Bluemix Adds New DevOps ServiceIncrease Your Productivity With These

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Upload Files to Active Server Pages

This tip works with ASP/IIS 4.0 and up. Many companies sell ActiveX objects for uploading files to Active Server Pages. However, you can easily write a bit of VBScript to

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Execute a Temporary SQL Stored Procedure

If a user doesn Related Posts Top 15 Laptops in 2023: Industry AnalysisVisual Studio 2015 Update 2 Boasts Faster C/C++ PerformanceHow to Increase the Size of an Array in JavaFinding

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Tiling Made Easy

Use this method whenever you need a tiled background on your forms. All you need is an Image control with its Visible property set to False, and a graphic in

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Updates, Uninstallations, and Product Codes

Install and uninstall issues are some of the most common sources of calls to help desks. The following is a tip on an implementation strategy for software updates using InstallShield

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The Late but Great Rearchitecture of DevX

t was just about exactly two years ago that DevX changed enough things around that our readers were likely to notice. At that time we were implementing a site-wide navigation

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Go Beyond Keywords! Perform a Visual Image Search

arge collections of diverse images, graphics and video are becoming common, both on the Web and in media asset databases. As the size of the image collections expand, it becomes

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Master Font Manipulation in Java

hether you think very much about fonts or not, as an application user, you are constantly interacting with and manipulating fonts. Particularly in word processing programs, where it’s common to

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Make SQL Server Respond to an ORDER BY Clause

ometimes, how you present data is just as important as the data itself. One of the simplest presentation techniques is to sort the data in some meaningful way, but SQL