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In .NET, strings are immutable: When you pass them out to an API, you can

When you use components in your VB projects, sometimes it

Have you ever wanted to send more than one value for an associated name by passing values to a Servlet or JSP using a name-value pair? A simple way to

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The newsgroups offer a lot of discussion about bitwise comparison in SQL statements. VB supports true bitwise arithmetic with And, but SQL supports only a logical AND and returns only

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Contrary to popular thought, you can add new records to an ADO 2.1 Recordset object that is the result of a Join operation executed on multiple-base tables. You must specify

‘ Center caption in Adodc control” Input: frmForm – Form Adodc contol in on’ datAdodc – Adodc control’ sCaption – Caption text” Output: Padded Caption textSub CenterCaptionInAdodc(ctrl As Adodc, ByVal

‘—————————————————————–‘ Module: mBases’ (C) 2000 Trinet Ltd, http://www.trinet.co.uk’ Author: R. Deeming ([email protected])” Purpose: To provide simple conversion between different’ number bases, including fractional parts.” An example of advanced conversion is

VB developers have always used the #IF compiler directive to include or esclude portions of code from the application. The problem with this directive is that you can easily exclude

.NET arrays are object types, thus an array variable is actually a pointer to the object where data is actually stored. For this reason, when you pass an array to

In VB6 and previous version, displaying an enumerated value in a group of option buttons is quite simple, provided that the option buttons be grouped in a control array. VB.NET

The .NET framework doesn’t offer any direct way to evaluate an expression that has been entered by the end user when the application is running. However, it is quite simple

The application’s priority – and more in general the thread’s priority – indicates how the application is “important” for the CPU. The more the priority is hight the more the

Read-only and write-only properties in a Web Service class aren’t visible to the Web Service client. The reason is that XML serialization doesn’t support these sort of properties, and read-only

The Console class exposes two properties that make it very simple to create command-line utilities that work as filters, exactly like the FIND and MORE utilities that are provided with

C# has a nice feature that VB.NET lacks: the ability to define a Main procedure that takes an array of strings, each one containig one of the arguments passed on

The Environment.GetEnvironmentVariables property returns the list of all the environment variables, as an IDictionary object. If you want to display them sorted by their name, as the SET command does

Writing an application that returns an ERRORLEVEL to Dos is quite difficult in VB6, because you are forced to use a Windows API that ends the application immediately, thus preventing

The System.Math class exposes several static methods that let you perform many common operations. These functions replace the VB6 functions with same name, but there are a few new functions

The GetFolderPath method of the Environment class lets you retrieve the path of several important system directories. For example, here’s how you determine the path of the Desktop directory for