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Question: I would like to show a splash page and have it time out after approximately five seconds. How do I do that? Answer: Presumably you would like to display

Question: My company, a strictly a VC++ development group, is considering developing a large real-time database/imaging application in both VB and VC++. What are the pros/cons of doing this, and

Question: Why can’t I have a static member in an inner class? Answer: The simple answer is that static member variables and methods aredisallowed by the Inner Classes Specification that

Question: Does one need a runtime DLL for an .exe file written with MFC in Visual C++? Can one make a standalone .exe program with C++ that is small and

Question: How do I create a partition for Windows 95 in a machine installed with Windows NT Workstation (NTFS)? Answer: First, you CANNOT INSTALL WIN/95 or /98 ON A NTFS

Question: Can you please tell me how to delay the program flow in Java? I can’t find any implementation of delay(). Answer: To introduce a delay into your program, use

Question: I need to pass an array of pointers to a class to a function. The function is: void myFunc(myClass *example[]); The problem is that I need to define the

Question: Where can I go to decipher Microsoft error codes? I am having trouble making one NT workstation dial in to my RRAS server; I get a TCP/IP error code

Question: I would like to write a function that receivesan integer and converts this into a string representing the integers value in binary. At the moment I am struggling to