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Destroying Objects

Question: In VB, you can release the object’s memory with the following: set object = nothing How do you accomplish the same thing in Java? Answer: The analogous way of

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Form Input and JSP

Question: I want to collect form data in a JSP page where the form issubmitted by one of many possible links (possibly passing values usingURL rewriting). In one case, I

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Determining Heap Size

Question: How do I find the size of the heap memory that is available for Java program? Answer: The maximum size of the Java heap is fixed by the JVM

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EXE Starts and Ends Immediately

Question: When I build my application as an EXE and run it, the application comes up and then immediately disappears. What is wrong? Answer: You need to create an event

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Not Wanting Table to Remain Read-Only

Question: I created a command button on the main form. It runs another wizard-generated form that edits a table in the database container. It works in test, but when I

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Create a Context Menu

Question: I’m having a problem creating a context menu in a grid (by clicking on the right button of the mouse). I created this menu by programming a method that

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OLE Automation of Word

Question: How do you open a specific Word document through a Visual FoxPro program? Answer: You simply add the document to the Word.Application’s Documents collection. Here is a code sample

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Restricting Users’ External E-mail Access

Question: We have a private WAN network with Exchange Server 5.5 and also have one inbound/outbound Internet mail service for all people to use to send Internet e-mail. I want

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Open the Internet Connection dialog

The dialog you see when you start an Internet connection is implemented in the RNAUI.DLL file, and the specific function is called RnaDial. To open this dialog from your application