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‘ generate a random string” the mask can contain the following special chars’ ? : any ASCII character (1-127)’ # : a digit’ A : an alphabetic char’ N :

When you use the Add-Ins project template to build your own add-ins, the description of the add-in appearing in the Add-Ins Manager window is always “My Addin.” It isn’t immediately

A pointer to member of a base class can be converted to a pointer to a corresponding member of its derived class. The opposite, however, is illegal: you cannot convert

The std::string has a data member that holds its size. Calculating the size of a string object is therefore a fast constant time operation, which is independent of the number

You can make your code more readable by always adding a remark on top of all your procedures. Create an add-in that makes it fast and easy. First, run New

Since the introduction of DHTML and client-side scripting, developing Internet applications can be a real challenge. If you don’t have the luxury of a “pure” Internet Explorer environment, there’s a

You can retrieve information about all the available drives using calls to Windows API, if you like the hard way of doing things. A much simpler solution is offered by

HTML elements can be made inactive and non-responsive by using the disable attribute. When HTML controls are disabled, they appear dimmed and don’t respond to user input. This is useful

This is achieved by using the Windows Script Host. First, create an instance of the object WScript.Shell. Then, use its Run method to execute the DOS command. For example, say