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Use enum Terminated with count

Always use an enum instead of defines and always close the list with an additional count. This makes life simpler and helps the compiler.Instead of defines: #define TypeA 0#define TypeB

OpenXML for Multiple Trips to the Database

Suppose you need to make multiple inserts (or updates or deletes) to a SQL Server database?for instance, inserting items in a shopping cart. In the past, you needed to loop

Fixed-length Strings Using Templates

Instead of writing a string class that contains a (char *), why not write a string class with a fixed char array? Of course, it would be repetitive if you

A Sparse Array of Any Type with Fast Access

A sparse array saves memory by not allocating memory for elements that are not initialized or to which you don’t need access. They’re quite easy using the STL map.This example

Output Data into a File

Use the following code: #include void main(){ char name[15]; double salary; ofstream outFile(“FileName.txt”, ios::in); while (outFile){ outFile >> name >> salary; }}

Outputting Currencies

How to print out a Currency in Java is an often overlooked topic. How should Currency be printed out in an international, standardized way?The java.text.NumberFormat class is used for outputting

Copy Data from One File to Another

This wrapper class “FileCopier” copies data from one file to another. This class uses another class: “StreamCopier”. /** * Class: FileCopier * Author: Vivek Bagade * Date: 8/31/2001 * Description:

Generate Thumbnails Out of a Larger Image

This is useful in a Web-based Photo Gallery kind of application, where you need to automatically generate multiple sizes of the same image. class ThumbnailGenerator { public void generateThumbnail (String

A Cleaner Way of Doing String Comparison

If you have a method into which you pass a String parameter that you compare with another string then: void foo( String str ){ String CONST_STR = “bar”; // DON’T

Debugging Variables Made Easy

At one time or another, all ASP progrmmers have used RESPONSE.WRITE to write out a variable on the screen, ensuring that the variable is passing correctly or has the correct

More Efficient LPad Function for Large Padding Lengths

function LPad(ContentToSize,PadLength,PadChar) { return GetRepeatedCharString(PadChar, PadLength -ContentToSize.length) + ContentToSize;}function GetRepeatedCharString(Char, Size) { if (Size < 1) return ""; else if (Size == 1) return Char; else return GetRepeatedCharString(Char, Size /

Generate a Script-name Independent HTML Form

This tip is useful for large, server-side scripts containing lots of functions/procedures that generate HTML forms. Say you’ve hardcoded the script name (for the same script) in the ACTION tag

Find the Encryption Algorithm Used in SSL Requests

Servlet 2.3 provides an API that finds the algorithm used a Web app’s SSL requests. The attribute “javax.servlet.request.cipher_suite” is provided to get the information.Here’s the code: String cipherAttribute = “javax.servlet.request.cipher_suite”;String

How to Trim a Method in Javascript

/** * Function that will remove the leading and trailing spaces. */function trim(str){ return( rtrim(ltrim(str)));}/** * Function that will remove the trailing spaces. */function rtrim(str){ re = /(s+)$/; return str.replace(re,

CUSerFunction utility class

This VB6 class contains three methods for querying the name and group of the current Windows NT user: IsAdmin (true if the user is an Administrator), IsNTGroupMember (true if the

CreateDataReader_OleDb – Create an OLEDB Data Reader

‘ return a DataReader over an OleDbConnection” CONNSTRING is the connection string’ SQL is the SQL Select statement to be executed” the connection will be automatically closed when the DataReader

Copying menu controls from one form to another

If you’re building a project with multiple similar forms, it’s nice to be able to cut-and-paste controls from one form to another. However, in VB6, you can’t do this for

VB6 Task Management Add-in

This VB6 add-in provides you a handy project management console that helps you to track the bugs and pending tasks of the source code. You can mantain the list of