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ASP & MS Excel

Question: I can start excel on my server from an ASP script and then create and save a document. When I’m done, Excel doesn’t shutdown. I’ve tried various commands to

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Resize the Browser On-the-Fly

If your Web page is formatted to look best in a certain size of window, you can try resizing the visitor’s browser using the resizeTo() method. Do this when the

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File I/O

Question: How do I read in both a character string and int value from a file? The data I am trying to read looks like this: Name1 10 10 10Name2

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Software Engineering (C++ a bad choice?)

Question: I am working on an assignment that asks us to determine why using C++ is a bad choice, from a software engineering perspective.So far, I have found that C++

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Memory Protection

Question: I’m writing a program in Windows 95.I try to READ memory address FFFF:0005 that contain BIOS date, by using peekb(int, int) function, but Windows displays a close message. How

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Deleting Listbox Items

Question: How can I delete more than 1 Item from the listbox at once? Answer: I don’t believe the Windows list box allows you to delete more than one item

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Unsolvable Error

Question: Visual 6.0 displays an error that says it can’t find one of my libraries, but it is right there in the same folder. Answer: Assuming the libraries are there,

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WHERE Clause and Query Performance

Question: As a rule of thumb, a query that does a join will run faster if the table with the least number of rows is referenced first in the FROM-clause