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ADO

Question: I want to open a small ADO recordset from the server and save it the local drive to be used as a disconnected session. Can you tell how to

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Display Phone Data in Mask

Question: Our phone numbers are stored in SQL 7 database in the format 9999999999. How can I use ASP to display the phone numbers using the mask (999)999-9999? Answer: You

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JDK Editions

Question: When I go to download the Sun JDK, I see there’s an Enterprise Edition, and a Developer Edition, as well as a Standard Edition. What are thedifferences between all

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Limiting Search Results

Question: When my clients enter searching criteria, I want to limit the number of results. For example, if the number of results is over 100, I want the user to

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Get the list of ODBC drivers

The ODBCTOOL.DLL library contains three functions that make it easier to manage DSNs. To run the following code you must add a reference to the “ODBC Driver & Data Source

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Get the list of ODBC DSNs

The ODBCTOOL.DLL library contains three functions that make it easier to manage DSNs. To run the following code you must add a reference to the “ODBC Driver & Data Source

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Launch the default browser on a given URL

The following routine launches the default browser and loads the specified URL in it. The argument doesn’t have to include the HTTP:// prefix. If the operation is successful it returns

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Change the ShowInTaskbar property at runtime

The ShowInTaskbar property lets you decide whether a form is visible in Windows taskbar or not. However, this property is read-only at runtime, so it seems that you can’t change