Tip Bank

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Add a slash to directory names

If you have defined a default document for a given IIS virtual directory, any link pointing to the directory will actually point to the default document for that directory. However,

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GetHtmlPageSource – Get the HTML of a page using MSXML library

‘ Getting the HTML code of any page on the web’ NOTE: requires the Microsoft XML library’ Example:’ Text1.Text = GetHtmlPageSource(“http://www.vb2themax.com/Default.asp”)Function GetHtmlPageSource(ByVal URL As String) Dim objHTTP As New XMLHTTP

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Release COM objects immediately

When you use a COM or COM+ from a .NET application and then you set the object reference to Nothing (or let it go out of scope), the object isn’t

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The WITH CHECK OPTION option with views

SQL Server’s views are updateable, but it is possible that when you insert a new record or update an existing record, the record added or modified doesn’t logical belog to

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Most runtime errors don’t rollback transaction

Many developers mistakenly believe that any error inside a transaction will make the transaction fail and automatically rollback. However, this is true only for fatal errors, such as most errors

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Retreive information about SQL Server

You may retrieve a few important information about a connection to SQL Server by querying the server through appropriate @@ global variables. For example, the following routine takes an ADO