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Break Out of Those Frames

So you’ve designed your page just perfectly so all the content screams at the user to be noticed. Unfortunately, sites that link to your site have decided to place their

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Initializing A ResultSet

Question: I am building a prototype but am trying to make the code as reuseableas possible. To test the prototype, I need to simulate a ResultSetbeing returned from a database.

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Textfield Alignment

Question: How do I right align numbers in a textfield? Answer: This is yet another example of why the Swing classes should be used inlieu of the AWT classes. Swing

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AWT Thread Interaction

Question: I have two threads in an application. Thread A displays a form andallows the user to interact with it, thread B executes a loop whichcontinually retrieves data and updates

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General Precedence

Question: I am an engineer at GNB Technologies and have been programming for quite some time. Last week a friend of mine asked me an interesting question that stumped me.

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Possibility of Decompiling an EXE File?

Question: How can I get the source code from EXE files? Does it matter if they are read-only? Answer: This question is asked very frequently. However, the answer is always

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Class Scoped Constants

Question: Is there a better way to scope constant values within a class other than by using “enum”? class Foo {public: enum { valueOne = 1, valueTwo = 2 }

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Languages Used for Windows Programs

Question: I need to know what languages are used in the implementation and programming of Windows 95 et al. (Windows 98, Windows NT, and Windows 2000). Any help or referrals

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Informix OLE DB Provider

Question: I have IDS 7.31.UC2A and I want to register Informix OLE DB Provider on this database server. I need the %INFORMIXDIR%etccoledbp.sql script for running it against the sysmaster. Can