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Open ODBC Connection Without Hardcoding Password

Question: In my ASP page, I open an ODBC connection with: Set Conn = Server.CreateObject(“ADODB.Connection”)Conn.CommandTimeout = 600Conn.open “Database_name”,”Username”,”password”. How can I avoid hardcoding the password in the ASP source? Answer:

Compiler Warnings with STL Map Containers

Question: Using even the most basic default constructor, such as ” mapm; ” , causes a debug error creating huge compiler warnings in Visual C++ and MS Visual Studio 6.0.

Access Data From SQL Server in ASP

Question: I’m using Microsoft SQL Server 6.5, Active Server Pages (ASP), and ActiveX Data Objects (ADO). When I retrieve a string with a value of “New York” from the table

Overloading istream operator >> for bool

Question: I am trying to overload the istream operator >> to work with type “bool”. From my point of view the code looks okay, except the VC++ 6.0 compiler tells

Display Date and Time of File Upload

Question: How can I display the date and time a file was uploaded to my Web server using ASP? Answer: If you can access the file from an ASP page,

Overload Operator []

Question: Is it possible to overload the ‘subscripting operator’ [] so it will take char * as the index, similar to an array? For example: I want to write a

Connect to a Remote Database Using ASP

Question: How do I connect to an Access database that resides on a network server other than the Web server? My goal is to query the Access database and display

Access Violation

Question: I get an “Access violation at address…” error, when I run my program. An error occurs on line “scanf(…)” but I can’t figure out what is wrong. Answer: In

Understanding Session_OnStart and Application_OnStart

Question: I am confused regarding the Application_OnStart and Session_OnStart events in the global.asa file. What I feel is that the application_onstart event is triggered the very first time the application