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This tip demonstrates how to add an element to a particular position in an array and how to shift all elements in and above that position up one position. Using

This is useful if you want to write a generic class to manage some common task with controls in your application. The variable uncontrol saves the name of the control

In the field of information technology, what counts more is the early adaptation of the new features that come with every new version of software. Coming up with the JDK

The conditional retrieval of data is a typical requirement. You retrieve the content and make some decisions on that data in your code before using it. This is a two

This tip describes how to avoid loading a second instance of an application when the user already has one instance running. It also sets the focus to the first instance

Creating folders with the file system object model can help eliminate errors and long folder-existence checks?especially if you are attempting to create already existing folders. Dim fso as new FileSystemObjectDim

Say you have a user structure and a container of pointers to that user structure. You need to sort the container based only on some structure’s members. The solution is

When you execute , it generates the local ANT macros ${TSTAMP} and ${DSTAMP}. These are the time and date as numeric strings. They can then be used to dynamically generate

Sometimes you need your resultset sorted a particular way and using the primary key doesn’t accomplish what you need. One way to get around this is to create a sortable

This SQL function is similar to the VB split function. It takes a nvarchar delimeted list and delimeter and returns a table with the values split on delimeter. if exists