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Need a quick and dirty way to exponentiate integers? Or perhaps you are working on a number library of your own. This will work in all cases. templateTYPE power(TYPE x,

Using the ISNUMERIC() and ISDATE() functions, you can check the required column’s data type validity. If the column passes the data type validity check, it will return a 1. If

When compiling a program, the compiler adds some optimizations that may cause your application to misbehave. For example consider the following code: // To avoid threads waiting on the critical

The const_cast operator takes the form: const_cast (expr) It is used to add or remove the “const-ness” or “volatile-ness” from a type. Consider a function, f, which takes a non-const

I have found the need to do multiple tests on dissimilar variables and objects with any failing test causing an action. Multiple embedded If…Then…ElseIf…EndIf statements are awful to look at

When an array is declared as a type where each element occupies a lot of memory (such as a complex user-defined type), sorting the array can become unacceptably slow. To

Believe it or not, you can override VB

VB6 introduced a new built-in function, CallByName(), as a member of VBA.Interaction. It lets you reference an object

Although the GetLocaleInfo API can retrieve just about any regional setting you need, VB