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Document Your XSLT

“Document Your Code! Document Your Code!!” This is one of those lessons hammered into most Computer Science majors about three days into their first code class–and one quickly forgotten by

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The ADOSPCode Utility

ADOSPCode is a template driven program for generating VB code from SQL Server stored procedures. With this program you can Open/Edit connection to reach your SQL-Server database and display list

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Understanding and Calculating Dates

QL Server provides many sophisticated functions to calculate dates. But knowing how to use them can often be a challenge. Suppose you want to calculate when a package is due

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Creating Clickable Appointments

onsider the scenario in which you are building a Web application that displays events or appointments for different dates. If you want your users to remember this event within their

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Cloning Data Accurately and Randomly

ecently I encountered a couple of Oracle-tuning projects that required me to evaluate the performance of PL/SQL and SQL code. I had to generate a substantial amount of data from

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ErrReport DLL

ErrReport provides an easy way to add centralized error reporting capabilities to applications written in Visual Basic. ErrReport has the following features: (a) Thorough diagnostic information. In addition to the

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The Unipicture control

Windows only permits 1024 active bitmap/icon handles to be in use at any time. The UniPicture control provides a method to store data for more than 1024 Bitmaps/Icons without depleting

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The Zoom Control

The Zoom control assists with the display of data from lookup tables. Developers want to hide Foreign Keys from users and display instead the descriptive value from the lookup table,