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Question: Does Informix support user-defined data types? Answer: OWS/IDS does not support custom data types. This is supported in the 9.X series and in the new Internet Foundation 2000 and

Question: When defining a string, is there a way to include a carriage return in the text? Answer: Yes. A carriage return is represented by the special escapedcharacter . However,

Question: Is there a way to turn off meeting requests for a user? Is there a way to turn off the “feature” that sets a tentative meeting when you open

Question: I am interested in keeping my code running as fast as possible. Is there a cost associated with making my methods synchronized, and if so, how significant a cost?

Java provides two methods to test for equality: the == Operator and the .equals method. The .equals is implemented by all objects. Most programmers tend to use == for equality,

Private Declare Function SetWindowPos Lib “user32” (ByVal hWnd As Long, _ ByVal hWndInsertAfter As Long, ByVal X As Long, ByVal Y As Long, _ ByVal cx As Long, ByVal cy

When you work with RAS APIs, you should have to make sure if RAS library is installed on the system. A simple way is to verify the existence of the

You can programmatically set the Internet Explorer off-line mode with the InternetSetOption API, as this code snippet demonstrates: Const INTERNET_OPTION_CONNECTED_STATE = 50Const INTERNET_STATE_CONNECTED = 1Const INTERNET_STATE_DISCONNECTED = 2Const INTERNET_STATE_DISCONNECTED_BY_USER =

Internet Explorer offers the possibility to simulate an Internet connection with the off-line mode. If you want to know if off-line mode is on or off you can use InternetQueryOption