isual Basic applications are becoming more connected, and developers are trying to Web-enable their applications by supporting HTTP or FTP. Often this requires using the Microsoft Internet Transfer control or
Callbacks, either in the form of function pointers or pointers to members, offer a significant advantage over direct function calls: the caller doesn’t have to know a function’s name (nor
n last month’s 10 Minute Solution you explored the basics of printing with VB6. This month’s solution continues that exploration by presenting basic code for printing and previewing text. In
ermissions are restricted in most environments. Even in development environments, only members of the sysadmin and serveradmin fixed server roles can execute the sp_sdidebug and sp_addmessage extended procedures to grant
hile doing some shopping one day, I noticed that nearly every retail outlet offers some kind of calendar, each attractively decorated with an image theme. It occurred to me that
any organizations have applications already written in Java; but applications often aren’t static?they need constant attention and modifications to remain productive. When it’s time to upgrade, rather than rewriting the
s we head into 2004, for me it’s a time to reflect how far our industry has evolved over the past twelve months, and the pace at which new technologies
un’s Java 2 Enterprise Edition and Microsoft’s .NET Framework represent the two undisputed titans of n-tier, enterprise software platforms. Although most IT departments will standardize on one of these platforms
ORBA, the acronym for Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is a widely used communications model for building distributed (multi-tier) applications that connect both cross-platform and cross-language clients to server-based services.