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When passing arguments to in-process OLE servers, you can pass everything by reference. This is because the OLE server shares its client

Each MTS component can contain one or more classes which, in MTS terms, are referred to as MTS Objects. Visual Basic 6.0 provides a new property called MTSTransactionMode that can

sp_spaceused can be used to compute the amount of disk space used for data and indexes, and the disk space used by a table in the current database. If no

If you make changes to the SQL Server Registry entries, then you should first back up those entries by using the Regrebld -backup command-line utility. Usage is: Regrebld -backup You

In your apps, do the right thing: Use the computer’s Temp folder to hold your temporary files. To find that location, paste this code into the Declarations section of a

Occasionally you initialize a form but don’t load it. You might do this to read in initial application Registry values. After that, any references to control properties on the form

I needed a printed catalog of GIF images in a directory. So I wrote a routine that creates a new document, and inserts an image for each GIF file in

When you implement the Always on Top feature with VB forms using SetWindowPos and HWND_TOPMOST, message boxes are shown below the topmost form. To overcome this, you can use the

Question: I have a date field on my ASP page. I want to restrict the user for entering only the dates in his Windows 95 machine’s date format. How can