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Control How Browsers Cache Your Page

Question: Is there a way to force a page to load from the server rather than from the cache? The META refresh and onLoad=reload() both just send the page into

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Problems Connecting to an Access Database

Question: I created an ASP page through Microsoft Access. When I click the hyperlink that runs this page, I get nothing back from the query that is run. It’s almost

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Convert From a String to a Number

Question: If you have a variable with a numeric value represented as a string, how do you convert it to a numeric type in order to use it in a

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Call a DLL From an ASP Page

Question: I used Visual Basic 6 to create an ActiveX control (student.ocx), which the client downloads, and an ActiveX DLL (Math.DLL), which I want to remain on the server. Student.ocx

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Discover The Hostname Of Your Local Machine

The class java.net.InetAddress represents an Internet Protocol (IP) address. It has a static method, getLocalHost(), that you can use to obtain an instance of java.net.InetAddress based on your local machine’s

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DataWindow Initial Values

Question: How can I use global variables to set initial values in a DataWindow? I have tried to use “Rows..Column Specs..” but all it displays is the name of the

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Getting the Toolbar to Show Text

Question: What code do I have to write to get my toolbar to show text? Answer: The toolbar text and other general toolbar attributes are located on the Application object.