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Generate Numbers at the Server End

Question: How do I generate numbers at the server end? I have an application in which I am accessing data from an Access database and I want to define each

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Using ASP as Opposed to HTML Files

Question: I have been testing the delivery of ASP pages versus HTML pages and found that there is a considerable difference (ASP = 1 per sec / HTML = 187

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Center Your Frames/Dialogs

You can find many tips on how to center a window within the screen, but howabout centering a window in its parent container? The following code showsyou how to do

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Detect if Swing is Installed

Sometimes it is useful to know if Swing is installed in a Java environmentor not, especially if you are dealing with browsers. You can simply try tocreate a Swing component,

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Who’s Who in Java Commerce

Java WalletThe Java Wallet is a family of Java products designed to enablesecure electronic commerce operations. It incorporates the Java CommerceClient, Commerce JavaBeans components, the Gateway Security Model, and JavaCommerce

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JOptionPane

Question: When creating an input dialog box with JOptionPane.showInputDialog, isit possible to have a masking character, such as the * for password input? Answer: As implemented in the Sun JDK,

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Mathmatical Functions: Decimals

Question: How can I read only from one side of the decimal in VB6? I need to get .4286 from a value of 22.4286. I also need to know how

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IIS – Manipulating the Metabase

Question: I have been trying to change settings for the IIS server in order that I can set the flag to allow an out-of-process Active X EXE Server to be