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Don’t use = operator on Date values

Date variables store values in floating point format, much like Double variables, with the integer part for dates and the fractional part for the time portion. Being floating point values,

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Share Data Across MTS Objects

One of the resource dispensers that come with MTS is Shared Property Manager (SPM). SPM provides a mechanism by which you can share global memory among all the objects that

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ASP Compatibility

Question: According to the stats of my Web site, there are still quite a few users who use old browsers like Netscape 3.0 and Explorer 3.0. If I start using

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Save and Load

Question: Is there any way to do a incremental save using XMLDOMDocument (MSXML parser) and also loading part of the Document tree? Answer: A SaveInto or a LoadFrom command? As

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XML Schemas

Question: What is the difference between SOX schemas and XDR schemas? Answer: SOX schemas are more object-oriented (the name in fact means Schemas for Object-Oriented XML), allowing you to assign

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Sending Null Values to a Required Field

Question: When I try to send some information to an access database through ASP, I get the following error: [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access 97 Driver] Field ‘tablename.class’ can’t be a zero-length

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Searching a Database for a Keyword

Question: When setting up a recordset, is it possible to get a record when the field contains more than the word that I’m looking for and where the words are

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XHTML and Javascript

Question: Can Javascript code be used in XHTML Web pages? Answer: Sure. The only real difference between XHTML and HTML is the consideration for ampersands and less than symbols. Thus,