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Find Text Programmatically With textRange

Browsers Targeted: Internet Explorer 4+ You can find a string of text within a document programmatically using the textRange object, which handles most of the internal string manipulation capabilities in

Database Performance Degradation

Question: We are running Informix On-Line Database Engine 7.23 on an HP UX 11.0 machine with 4 CPUs.The database is connected through a middle-tier, which is ENTERA Application Server running

Fix VID Connections on NT Server

Users of Visual InterDev sometimes report getting an error message when they try to create a new project. The error claims that there is no Web named “”. This can

Ensure Efficient Usage of Connections

You should be very careful while establishing database connections from your Web-based application. MDAC 2.0 (Microsoft Data Access Components) provides automatic connection pooling behind the scenes. Connection pooling in OLE

Quickly Convert Recordset into an XML File

With MDAC 2.1 (Microsoft Data Access Components), you can generate a XML file quickly from a Recordset object. The Save() method of Recordset object takes in an optional parameter, adPersistXML,

Transferring .PST Files from Work to Home

Question: I’m running Outlook 2000 and would like to import my *.pst file into my home system. However, I receive an error message saying that the file needs to be

Using AVIs as Buttons

Browsers Targeted: Internet Explorer 3+ Depending upon your bandwidth availability, you can incorporate AVIs into your Web pages as navigational elements. If you set the dynsrc property of the tag