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If you have a database that’s been upgraded from SQL Server 6.5 to a newer version (like 7 or 2000), but it’s still in compatibility mode 65, you can’t use

Sometimes you need to enforce objects of a certain type to be allocated only on the free store (heap) rather than on the stack.That’s if you need somewhere to call

Managing Unicode strings (LPWSTR, BSTRs, etc.) is now a very common task. However, Visual Studio 6 does not allow you to view Unicode strings correctly in the watch window. It

In Java, message digest is represented by “java.security.MessageDigest class”.All main classes in java.security package are instantiated using the factory method “getInstance()”.This method takes the String parameter, which is the name

Message digest is a hash code of a byte sequence (message).It has certain properties that make it very unique and very useful: It has a fixed size (in bytes), which

Using this code will rewrite all the rows in MS Flex Grid and it supports alphanumeric as well as numeric sorts for specified columns.Good Luck! Option ExplicitPublic Sub QSort(Grid As

Don’t forget to turn off the .sorted property on the combo box before calling! ResortCboFromAlphaToNum cboAbcPublic Sub ResortCboFromAlphaToNum(cc As ComboBox) ‘resorts given combobox from alpha sort (usual) to numeric sort

Sometimes you want to initialize arrays with values, but you can’t because you’d have to provide values explicitly. There is a way to generate these kinds of assignment statements.Say you

This is useful in gathering the title information of the forms for your program or other programs. You retrieve the information and display it for your user or use it