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The Windows shell provides a function that lets you add a file to the list of the recent documents, that is the list that you can access from the Start

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

You’re probably aware of the overhead that is associated with calling a virtual member function. However, the performance penalty in this case might even be higher than you think because

When you call a virtual member function from a class’s constructor, the actual function that gets called is the one defined in the object whose constructor is executing. Virtual member

There’s a common myth among Visual C++ programmers that it’s OK to use delete instead of delete [] to release arrays built-in types. For example, int *p = new int[10];

Browsers Targeted: Internet Explorer 4 and 5 With Internet Explorer 4.0 and above, you can create an arbitrary property on any HTML object. This property, called an expando property, stays

Browsers Targeted: Internet Explorer 3+, Netscape 3 and 4 Sometimes, you need to set up events to happen at periodic intervals. Perhaps the simplest application of this is a clock.

With applets, sometimes the browser acts as the applet’s frame. This prevents the user from mistaking the browser window for a separate application and closing it. With this approach, the

In Java, a readable, writable directory should be empty before an attempt is made to remove it. The following code recursively empties a directory, and its sub-directories, and then removes