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Printing is one of the things that you can’t do directly from withing ASP: to have a printout of your data from ASP you must instantiate a COM component –

Private Declare Function SystemParametersInfo Lib “user32” Alias _ “SystemParametersInfoA” (ByVal uAction As Long, ByVal uParam As Long, _ ByRef lpvParam As Any, ByVal fuWinIni As Long) As LongConst SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER =

One of the most effective optimization techniques consists of caching data inside Application or Session variables. However, you should pay attention to how you reference to the elements in those

The SQL language includes the SUM() aggregate function, that evaluates the sum of all the values in a given column, but it doesn’t include a PROD() function that evaluates the

At times you may need to swap the values of two columns of the same SQL Server table. For example, suppose that you realized that the fname column of the

You can know the state of the Shift, Alt and Control keys at any time, not just from inside a Keyxxx event. The shared property Control.ModifierKeys returns a bit coded

To add an image as an embedded resource in a Windows Forms application, add the image file to the project with Project | Add Existing Item. Then select the file

If you have a string variable that should specify a date (asked in input to the user, for example), you can parse the string and get a Date variable by

In VB6 there was no easy way to create multiline tooltips for form controls, you necessarily had to resort to API tricks. And it was probably just not worth the