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Question: Winsock with VB works fine if I specify a port (e.g., 1001). However when I set the Winsock’s port (local and remote) properties to 0 so that they would

Question: My Informix usually server starts fine, but when I try to add a database chunk with the onspaces command I get an error (“shared memory not initialized”). Any ideas?

Question: I am getting an error (“Could not do a physical-order read to fetch next row” #244) while executing a job that runs a set of SQL statements every 30

Question: Should I make a call to GetObjectContext() in every function in my DLL? Obviously, you are going to do that in your “main” methods, but does calling GetObjectContext() in

Question: When should you use reference to pointers like those found in function arguments (class_name * & )? Answer: When you want the callee to change the pointer itself, not

When you need to compare two User Defined Type (UDT) variables to check whether they are equal, the only approach that you can follow in plain VB is to compare

Question: What does the ‘* 1’ mean in this constant declaration? Public Const gcsDelimiter As String * 1 = “|” Answer: The * in your example defines the size of

Question: Where can I find a list of reserved words in C++? Answer: Most C++ books include a list of reserved keywords. Here’s the list: asm do if return typedefauto

Question: Since template code is generated at compile time, it implies that there should be a separate set of code for each template objects created. Does that mean templates increase