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Returning Multiple Recordsets to ASP

Question: What are my options when I need to send multiple recordsets back to ASP from a single call? Which is the best for performance? Answer: You can return multiple

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Switching a Statement with a Char Array

Question: I can’t seem to get the switch statement to work with chars.For example: #include char answer[2];void main(){ cout > answer; switch(answer) { case ‘a’ : cout

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DHTML & Search Engines

Question: Can you provide any insight on whether spider-based search engines, like AltaVista and Inktomi, can index DHTML text? Answer: The phrase “DHTML text” can mean different things to different

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Balloon Labels

Question: How you to make balloon labels show when the user moves the mouse over an object? Answer: In VB6, most objects have a ToolTipText property that gives you that

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Scan HTML Code for Data Extraction

Question: Is there a way (using VB) to load a Web page (without actually showing the page through a browser or otherwise) and then extract the HTML code for use

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Converting LAYER to DIV tags

Question: I am trying to convert all the LAYER tags to DIV tags. In my code, I am using LAYER.SRC to execute a sever-side macro that returns an HTML document,

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Sub Procedures or Functions in Visual Basic

Question: Is it possible to have subprocedures or subfunctions in Visual Basic?For example, in COM components we find properties being accessed using the following: myObject.Column(“myColumn”).Hide = True In this Column

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Bad Primary Chunk

Question: I am having problem on restarting Informix after one of the chunks has been marked as DOWN. How do I change the status back to ONLINE? Answer: Depending on

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Using IFRAME Across Browsers

Question: I want to make my site cross-browser compatible, but I rely on a lot of iframes in the IE version. According to the original HTML 4 specification, it should