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Question: JavaScript’s date() function gives the user’s computer date and time. How do I display my local date and time on my Web page regardless of where the user surfs

Question: Is there any way to cache a .js file at the client, just like an image file, to reduce the number of trips to the server? Answer: You don’t

If you are using Internet Information Server version 5, you can redirect browsers to a new page more efficiently. In IIS 4, you had to use Response.Redirect as in this

When you need to iterate through all the elements of a control array, use this code: Dim J As IntegerFor J = Text1.LBound to Text1.Ubound With Text1(J) ‘ Work here…

If you want to step through the code behind a certainscreen element at run time, you might do something like this in break mode: Hit Ctrl-Break from run mode, use

Toss the Common Dialogs ControlIn Chris Barlow

The Split function is great for parsing strings, but what happens when a string has more than one consecutive delimiter? It might seem odd that Split() returns empty substrings as

Applets use a default background of gray, which may not be visually appealing to you. Besides, gray may be the background color of the web page on which the applet

Modern Java IDEs like Symantec’s Visual Cafe and Inprise’s JBuilder offer advanced applet debugging facilities. However, if you develop your applets using only the freely distributed JDK, it might be