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In C and C++, time is stored as a positive integer that contains the number of seconds elapsed since January 1st, 1970. The standard type time_t (defined in the header

The C++ Standard Library uses the ANSI C date and time library. Fortunately, the functions and data structures are Y2K compliant, so legacy code that was written nearly 30 years

Creating HTML pages that work well in the various browser versions can be difficult. It is hard to know what features, such as Dynamic HTML and VBScript are supported in

The Visual InterDev 6 toolbox is full of handy design-time controls and HTML shortcuts. As you customize the toolbox, you run a risk of accidentally deleting a tool such as

When you design a Web page using frames, you expect visitors to start at the address of the frameset holder, for example, default.htm. However, people who are linking from a

You can print canned reports in an Access database from VB in different ways. I created this routine to print any report with any criteria or filter from any database.

This code illustrates a VB5 routine that calls a given server’s stored functions or procedures. The first parameter is the stored function procedure name that resides on the server (ORACLE,

You can quickly create IDL (Interactive Data Language) that is compatible with Visual Basic by simply building a server with the Visual Basic IDE that contains the intended interface definitions.

If you’re creating a Jet-based multiuser database system, you’ll sometimes need to know who is currently connected to the shared database. To get this information in situations where you don’t