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Enumerate Flags for Easier Coding

If you do a lot of work with the Windows API, you might notice that some API functions have flag-type parameters, and you usually pass API constants as the values

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Prevent Reposting of Forms in VID 6

By clicking the browser’s refresh button, users often add unwanted records into your database. If you are using the Scripting Object Model (SOM) in Visual InterDev 6, you can thwart

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Variable Returning Matches in a Select Query

Question: What is the variable that returns the number of matches in a select query? I thought I’d seen a reference to a variable (something like “_COUNT”) but now I

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Break Out of Frames

Question: What is the correct syntax for forcing a page to break out of a frameset that might call it? Answer: The way to make sure that your document isn’t

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Place JavaScript In Separate Files

Question: I want to create a library of generic JavaScript functions. Is it possible to write different functions in different files, and use the functions within other files by “including”