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Informix ODBC Visual InterDev Hangs

Question: If I try to open an Informix table in Microsoft Visual InterDev, which uses SCO Vision Ultralite ODBC driver on an NT4/SP4 IIS4 Web server, Visual InterDev hangs. Using

Sessions Do Not Work on Web Server Farms

Question: How do sessions work with clustered NT servers? How do you make use of clustering technology if an NT machine goes down along with its sessions? Is NT smart

Sizeof Operator

Question: When declaring an unbounded array in my function’s parameter list, int a[], can I use the sizeof() operator to determine the array’s length at runtime? Answer: No, you can’t

Macros with Variable Number of Arguments

Question: Is there anyway to have a variable number of arguments passed to a macro? Yes, I know it can be done with inline, but this is for debugging purposes.

Control How a Page is Cached

A proxy server reduces the amount of time spent retrieving documents over the Internet. It does this by caching, or storing, the document in memory and then serving it from

Tile With Lightweight Image Control Arrays

I write apps for companies where computer know-how is at an all-time low. Most applications scare people to death. However, Web-style forms and graphic buttons present soothing enough interfaces that

Enter Data on an MSFlexGrid

You can use MSFlexGrid for data entry without using additional ActiveX controls. For this, use the KeyPress and KeyUp events. To use the MSFlexGrid for data entry, add the grid?named