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Question: I am looking for a way to display an arrowin the the “sorted column” heading to indicatethe direction and column sorted. This functionality can be seen in MS-Exchange. Answer:

A safe-to-use, long-lasting switch statement should always contain a default label in order to avoid hard-to-detect bugs such as the following: //Month.h fileenum Month { Jan, Feb, Mar, //…etc. Dec};//Month.cpp

In standard C, the functions abort() and exit() perform an immediate program termination, regardless of where they are called from. Although this also works in C++, it is usually not

In standard C, a function declared static has an internal linkage; it is accessible only from within the translation unit (source file) in which it is declared, but not from

Question: I noticed a couple of people asking for help on this. Could you please tell me why my program might continually corrupt an index? I find that when I

Question: I have an app that runs on IB 4 & 5; Oracle v7.x workgroup server, and MsSql v6.5. With SQL Server, when we open a TQuery that produces a

Question: I want to ask you how can I run windows applications inside of Delphi applications (for example notepad.exe)? Answer: It’s actually even simpler than that… Look in the tips

Question: In a TQuery component, I use the SQL property to call up a stored procedure which is kept on a MSSQL server. The string used is ‘Execute [nameofproc] :param1,

Question: How to I copy a file from a source to a target in Delphi. I have been trying: SourceId := OpenFile(Source, FileStructure1, of_Read); if SourceID = -1 then ShowMessage(‘Unable