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Produce a Hex Dump of the Contents of a URL

This program opens connection with a specified URL and hex-dumps the contents received from an associated input stream. Use this to find out what’s going on with your browser. public

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Sequence a Number Field Without an Identity Column

To begin, create a table with dummy records: Create table Table1 ( [Record Value] varchar(20), [Record Date] smalldatetime)goinsert into table1 values (‘Record 1′,’07/21/2003’)insert into table1 values (‘Record 2′,’07/22/2003’)insert into table1

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Create Unconventional Windows to Dazzle Users

When designing a portion of an application that must grab users’ attention quickly&3151;such as your companys splash screen?you might want to create a nonrectangular window. This code shows you how

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Format Strings in Proper Case

VBScript does not support the StrConv() function, which is useful to format strings in proper case. Use this algorithm to help you: Public Function StrConv( _ ByVal psString, ByVal plFormat)

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Visually browsing hierarchical files

VS.NET has a nice feature that allows you to visually navigate through the content of hierarchical files, and quickly jump to a particular section. Hierarchical files are all those files

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Shortcuts to useful VS.NET’s commands

Visual Studio .NET has a number of useful features that are often underused by developers, because they are hidden under several menus and not easily accessible. Here is a list