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Recommended Books on Cross-Browser DHTML

Question: Can you recommend a book on writing cross-browser DHTML? Answer: What book you should get depends on where you are now. If you’ve never touched JavaScript before, I recommend

Hosting Internet Mail

Question: Right now we have Exchange set to dial up an ISP and retrieve our mail. We are getting a direct connection to the Internet and I want to host

Monitoring Mailbox Contents

Question: I have the need to monitor a mailbox. The mailbox is located on a local server, but the person accessing it is in another country. The person who needs

Dynamically Sort a Listbox

Question: Is it possible to dynamically sort a listbox (a select box with multiple rows)? Let’s say I want to sort the listbox according to different categories. Answer: Here’s how

Call a Function Across Frames

Question: My page has two frames. The left-side frame has a tree and depending on what the user clicks, I set the location for the right-side frame. My problem is

Removing Messages on the Server

Question: I’m new to Exchange Administration and was wondering how to clean out my mailbox on the server. I’m showing a lot of messages even though I have all my

Dynamic Type Versus Static Type

The type of the most derived object to which an expression refers is said to be the dynamic type of that expression. For example, if p is declared as a

The replace() Algorithm

Another useful STL algorithm is replace(), which is defined in the standard header and has the following prototype: void replace (ForwardIterator start, ForwardIterator end, const T & old_value, const T