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Use Script Caching

Using script caching when a script is extremely large or embedded across multiple pages can improve the performance of code in JavaScript. It also allows you to easily distribute one

Alter Your Browser’s Scrollbar Colour

There are CSS attributes responsible for controlling the scrollbar’s coloring, everything from the background, foreground, to the little arrow at the two ends of the scrollbar. –Your Normal code goes

A Fast Way to Check if a Table Is Empty

If all you need to know is whether a table is empty, using COUNT(*) is a bad alternative, because if the table is very large, it will take some time

Overloading and Overriding

Overriding a method suppresses the visibility of any overloads in the base class for the overridden method. Say you have a base class CBase where there are two trivial overloads:

Command Line Input to Java Application

As in C and C++, it is not easy to give input to an application in Java. This is sample code to check whether the given number is even or

Launch a File with its Associated Program

This code will allow you to launch a file with its associated program. #If Win32 ThenDeclare Function ShellExecute Lib “shell32.dll” Alias “ShellExecuteA” _(ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String,

Track Changes to your Crystal Reports

Since Crystal Reports files are stored in a binary format, it’s impossible to accurately track (using SourceSafe, for example) the changes you and your colleagues make.To help remedy this situation

Effective Use of the LogonUser

How do you use the LogonUser API in VB?1. Call RevertToSelf (this is the critical step as it allows the code torun under the System account)2. Call LogonUser3. Call ImpersonateUserThis

Get the exit code of a process

In a few cases, in particular when running MsDos batch files from within a VB application, you may want to determine the ERRORLEVEL set by an external application. You can’t

Determine whether a control has a scrollbar

There is no built-in VB function that lets you know whether a control – such as a ListBox – is currently displaying a vertical scrollbar. Here’s a pair of functions

Check for a valid URL

Before posting an Internet request you should check that the user has entered a valid Internet address. You can do this with a parsing routine, or use the following routine

Sorting on multiple keys

Frequently you need to sort arrays of records using multiple keys. This may be required since one single key does not uniquely identify a record (e.g. you may need both

Determine memory usage

The GlobalMemoryStatus API function returns detailed information about the current load on the physical and virtual memory. You can use the following code to display the current amount of free

Generate PDF Files Dynamically Using XSL-FO

his article shows you an easy way to generate PDF files dynamically for display in a browser by using an XSL vocabulary called XSL-FO (Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects). A

Check if a Given String Is a Palindrome

This code checks if a given string is a palindrome. Public Function IsPalindrome(strToCheck As String) As BooleanDim iForward As IntegerDim iBack As IntegerDim iMid As IntegerDim bPalindrome As BooleanIsPalindrome =

Use Explicit Template Instantiation

Instead of depending on the compiler to instantiate your template, youshould explicitly instantiate them using the following statement: template class vector; // for class instantiationtemplate int& vector::operator[] (int); // for

Exporting SQL Server Results to XML

Beginning with SQL Server 2000, Microsoft added support for SQL-XML interoperability. They did this by expanding some statements that we all know

Detecting Memory Leaks in Palm OS

Memory is precious in Palm OS, so you can’t afford any memory leaks in programs. Therefore, it’s very essential to detect any memory leaks. To do this put breakpoints in

Efficient Window Client Area Painting in VC++

Everybody knows that the WM_PAINT message is passed to a window whenever it needs to be painted. Usually, we code all of our painting instruction in the handler of WM_PAINT,

Improve Linear Searching

In order to increase the efficiency of your linear searching, add the item you are searching at the end of the list (either an array or linked list) and write

How Do ‘New’ and ‘Delete’ Actually Work?

The C++ runtime library includes a heap manager (subroutines responsible for maintaining the heap). The heap manager does bookkeeping to keep track of which parts of the heap have been

Dealing with Delimited Strings in T-SQL

This is a simple way to find out the word count in a comma delimited string: declare @mystring varchar(200)set @mystring=”vb,asp,sqlserver,html”select (len(@mystring)-len(replace(@mystring,’,’,”))+1) The following code will parse the delimited string: –variable