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How To Ensure That the Page is not Cached

Setting Response.Expires to a negative number or 0 disables caching. Sometimes, the use of Response.Expires = -1 doesn’t work because of mismatches between the clocks on the server and the

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Opening an Access DB

Before starting, add the Microsoft DAO 3.51 Object Library Reference. Private Sub Form_Load() Dim WkSp As Workspace Dim dB As Database ‘Define the file .MDW where are the users and

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Use ‘With..End With’ in Your ASP Scripts

You can use the ‘With … End With’ statements if you are using VBScript 5.0 or later. It helps to improve performance. This runs slower: PersonObj.FirstName = “Sandeep”PersonObj.LastName = “Gain”PersonObj.City

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Fix MSVC++’s “for”

MSVC has a small, but annoying bug with the scope of variables defined in “for” loops. For example, the following fragment is valid C++, but will not compile on MSVC:

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Win32 Equivalents for C Runtime Functions

Many of the C runtime functions have direct equivalents in the Win32 application programming interface (API). However, when you use C-Runtime functions, you need to have C-Runtime startup code and