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DevX Special Report: The AJAX Framework Roundup

Which AJAX Library Is Right for Me? 12/05/06 Free AJAX libraries are multiplying like bunnies in the spring. Here’s some guidance to help you sift through the dozens of options

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DevX Special Report: Judging Java

DevX is pleased to conclude its special enterprise report on Java. Part III of our series includes a candid two-part feature by analyst and author Andrew Binstock on the increasing

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DevX Special Report: The Road to Ruby

The Road to Ruby Does the Ruby programming language offer enough power and elegance to make it a legitimate alternative to the current heavyweight languages? Many Ruby converts believe so,

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Locking Rows

Question: We are developing an intranet application using visual interdev on windows 2000 and our informix database is on unix. We are using stored procedures and the ‘begin work’ and

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Outlook Web Access

Question: When trying to create an e-mail from OWA the following error message appears: ‘Your message body is too large. OWA only supports message bodies up to 100K…’ This message

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MS Outlook

Question: I have a form that is being sent from Outlook 98 to Outlook 2000. The form contains a small macro (VB Script). How do I prevent the EnableDisable macro

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Return E-mail Address for Outlook 98

Question: I have three workstations for three different users. They have different local e-mail addresses but they share the same internet e-mail address. Sending an e-mail is no problem but

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Using Parameters in XSL Select Statements

Question: Given the XML file: Sometimes we want to display name1 and sometimes name2. We figured that perhaps we could set a parameter. Then we could pass in the name

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Restoring an Exchange Server

Question: The BDC was the exchange server, and now it can’t see itself as BDC or a server. It shows on the SERVER MANAGER as a workstation. We have a

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Hiding the Command Window

Question: How can I hide the command window when a project is running? Answer: To hide the command window, issue the following command in your code: HIDE WINDOW COMMAND Related

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FoxPro Syntax

Question: I was told that aMemo and alines are FoxPro commands but I can not find them in FoxPro help. Is my version of FoxPro too old? I am on

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Information Store Size

Question: The company I work for has 15 employees and perhaps 25 legitimate mail boxes between users and service accounts. I have at least 5 users that have mail boxes

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Adding Message to Forwarding E-mail

Question: My company wishes to do some special e-mail forwarding. Is there a way to take an incoming message, place a message at the top or in the subject line,

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Escaped Characters

Question: When defining a string, is there a way to include a carriage return in the text? Answer: Yes. A carriage return is represented by the special escapedcharacter . However,

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ALTER TABLE Command

Question: I’ve archived/purged a few thousand rows of unnecessary data, but the disk space reading hasn’t changed. Do I need to use the ALTER TABLE command to reclaim empty space

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System.exit(0)

Question: Most GUI examples show System.exit(0) as the window closing eventhandler. However, System.exit(0) is a bad way to exit applications.The specification says that the VM will exit when all the

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Software Required to Make ASPs

Question: Which software is required for Active Server Pages development? Answer: Internet Information Server (IIS) is the most common way to implement ASP, but there are other plug-ins available for

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Listing Available Tables

Question: How do I list the available tables in a database I’m querying? Answer: You can get a list of tables in a database by calling the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Tables view like

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Return ID in Same Query as Insert

Question: How do I write a query that does an insert and returns the newly assigned ID from that field, all at one time? Answer: The @@IDENTITY variable returns the