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Use Response.IsClientConnected after long queries

When you perform a complex and time-consuming query in your ASP program, you should periodically test whether the client is still connected, using the IsClientConnected method of the Response object,

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Avoid querying the ServerVariables collection

You can access a lot of useful information through the ServerVariables collection, but this has a price in terms of performance. More precisely, the first time you reference this collection

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Split large HTML tables in smaller ones

In general, a browser can’t render an HTML table before the closing &/TABLE> tag is received. This means that the end user might wait for several seconds before a table

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Why Choose Exchange 5.5?

Question: Why should I choose to implement Exchange 5.5 when Microsoft Office works for my company? Answer: Well…Microsoft Exchange Server is a very different product from Microsoft Office. Office is

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Time Data

Question: I am using Windows 2000 and ADO 2.5 with VB6.0 and I am retrieving a datetime field from an Informix database 7.3. The field contains time only. When the

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Cannot Quit FoxPro

Question: I have built an executable file and included a READ EVENTS command. After running the .exe, I am unable to quit VFP. The message I get reads: “Cannot quit