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Identities and Triggers—A Lethal Mix

he identity property is a useful tool in designing databases. However, you can encounter serious problems with using it when combined with triggers. This problem was brought to my attention

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Property Builder Addin

This addin greatly accelerates the process of creating new property procedures, both in class, form, UserControl and UserDocument modules. You enter the name of the property, its type, its arguments

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Collection Class Master Addin

This addin lets you quickly create a collection class, i.e. a CLS module that implements a class that behaves like a collection but only works with a well-defined type of

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How to Time a Set of Threads

hen you time a set of threads, you generally want to know thetime elapsed between when the first thread starts and the last threadfinishes. When you time a single thread,

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Disconnected Recordsets

ne of the great and flexible features of the amazing elastic ADO recordset is that it can be disconnected from its data source, modified, and reconnected to update the data

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Get Data with GetString

DO recordsets have a handy little method called GetString that they inherited from RDO’s GetClipString. GetString returns the contents of a recordset into a formatted string. Here are three useful

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Writing UDP Clients and Servers

o write UDP clients and servers, you have to use the DatagramSocket class. UDP is a connectionless protocol, so a UDP server doesn’t have to perform an accept() operation the