Don’t Cache ADO Database Connections in the ASP Application Object
If you do, then all the pages will fight for the use of this connection. In addition, don’t cache an ADO connection in the Session object. If you do, a
If you do, then all the pages will fight for the use of this connection. In addition, don’t cache an ADO connection in the Session object. If you do, a
When creating stored procedures in a database other then the Master database, avoid using the ‘sp_’ prefix. System stored procedures are the only ones that should use the ‘sp_’ prefix.
You can use the keywords class and struct in forward declarations interchangeably. For example: class X; // fwd declaration uses ‘class’X *p;struct X // definition uses ‘struct'{};void f(){ p=new X;}
Many symbolic debuggers limit the length of symbols they can display. For example, the Visual C++ debugger can display strings that contain up to 255 characters. Suppose you have a
Suppose you need to define a function that takes a vector object and performs certain operations on it. The function has to be generic, that is, it should handle all
Sometimes you need to make sure that only one instance of the same application can run at any given time. Although every platform defines different locking schemes, you can use
One of the issues that have been discussed at the C++ standards committee is whether the declaration of static member functions is permitted. For example: struct A{ extern Related Posts
To simplify the process of writing custom function objects, the Standard Library provides two classes that serve as base classes of such objects: std::unary_function and std::binary_function. Both are declared in
The remove_if() algorithms (defined in the standard header ) has the following prototype: template ForwardIterator remove (ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, Predicate pred); The first two arguments mark the sequence’s beginning
The Standard Library defines the std::remove() algorithm, which moves desired elements to the front of a container and returns an iterator pointing to the end of the sequence of the
This control is a great substitute for the ProgressBar included in the Common Windows Controls package and can give a nicer look to your applications. It has a BackColor property,
The ComboBox control exposes the DropDown event, that lets you determine when its list area is being opened. However, VB doesn’t offer any simple way to understand when the list
‘ ensure that a listbox item is visible’ if the second argument is omitted, the index of current item is used” NOTE: uses the ListBoxVisibleItems functionSub ListBoxEnsureVisible(lst As ListBox, Optional
In general you don’t have any control on a ComboBox’s Height property, because it is determined automatically by VB depending on the font used for the ComboBox control. If you
Private Type RECT Left As Long Top As Long Right As Long Bottom As LongEnd TypePrivate Declare Function GetWindowRect Lib “user32” (ByVal hWnd As Long, _ lpRect As RECT) As
By default, VB ListBox controls don’t display an horizontal scrollbar, so if the items you add to the controls are wider than the control’s Width, the end user isn’t able
Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib “user32” Alias “SendMessageA” (ByVal _ hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, _ lParam As Any) As LongPrivate Declare Sub CopyMemory
The modulus operator can only be applied to integral types. To compute the remainder of two floating point variables, you have to use the fmod() function instead. Fmod() is declared
The Procedures Sort Add-In is a great add-in for those who like well-organized code. You can use it to sort your procedures in the active CodeWindow alphabetically. It preserve all
A myth that is still being spread in various VB and MTS/COM+ related newsgroups, is that an application can not obtain a reference to the MTS or COM+ ObjectContext in
Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib “user32” Alias “SendMessageA” (ByVal _ hWnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, _ lParam As Any) As LongConst LB_FINDSTRING = &H18FConst
Private Declare Function GetMenu Lib “user32” (ByVal hWnd As Long) As LongPrivate Declare Function GetSubMenu Lib “user32” (ByVal hMenu As Long, _ ByVal nPos As Long) As LongPrivate Declare Function
Private Declare Function GetWindowLong Lib “user32” Alias “GetWindowLongA” _ (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal nIndex As Long) As LongConst GWL_STYLE = (-16)Const WS_DISABLED = &H8000000′ Return True if the form
You can easily create columns of data in a ListBox control by setting its tab stop at appropriate positions. This way, you can use a ListBox control as a sort
Often OptionButton controls are arranged in control arrays. To quickly find the index of the only selected OptionButton control you can use the following code: ‘ assumes that the control
‘ Tile a bitmap to a form or a Bitmap box” Target can be a Form or a BitmapBox control’ Bitmap can be the Bitmap property of a PictureBox or
When developing Access 97 applications using VBA, you may have problems porting your application to other computers. Run time errors can occur from basic VBA commands, especially when rolling out
Using Swing, you can set the color of each node in Jtree. This is done by customizing your own TreeCellRenderer (overriding the DefaultTreeCellRenderer class), then calling the setBackgroundSelectionColor() method of
Question: Is there any way to test if a socket is still open without writing to it? Answer: Despite being relatively easy to use, the Socket class is not implemented
Question: In the first servlet we set the value for HTTP header as below: response.setHeader(“SessionKey”,”SessionValue”); In the next servlet we tried retrieving the above set header value as: request.getHeader(“SessionKey”); We