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Outputting Results To An Excel Document

One drawback to presenting data to a browser is that once you have it you can’t manipulate it. With more and more business functions being carried out through the web

MTS Package and Deployment Add-In

This add-in helps you manage the MTS Administration from with in the VB 6.0 environment. No more having to compile your dll, then open MTS so that you can do

Implementing Secured Web Applications with IIS5

You may have read my previous articles on the VB2TheMax site where I described COM+ and the basics of Internetsecurity [1]. In the last article of this series I willdiscuss

GetFileIcon – Retrieve the icon associated to a file

Private Const MAX_PATH = 260Private Type SHFILEINFO hIcon As Long iIcon As Long dwAttributes As Long szDisplayName As String * MAX_PATH szTypeName As String * 80End TypePrivate Declare Function SHGetFileInfo

Create a GUID from ASP using SQL Server

At times you may need to create a GUID from ASP, for example when assigning unique IDs to users that are visiting your site for the first time. While you

Tame Beastly Data with Summary Tables

anagers loved Eddie; he always had the answers on-hand. Eddie was a production supervisor in the pre-computer era. He received comprehensive hourly production reports on paper. He also received urgent

Document Your XSLT

“Document Your Code! Document Your Code!!” This is one of those lessons hammered into most Computer Science majors about three days into their first code class–and one quickly forgotten by

The ADOSPCode Utility

ADOSPCode is a template driven program for generating VB code from SQL Server stored procedures. With this program you can Open/Edit connection to reach your SQL-Server database and display list

Create UDL files the easy way

The standard way to create a UDL file is to right-click in the directory where you want to create it and select the New-Microsoft Data Link menu command. Unfortunately, on

Access Class Members From a Thread Function

Suppose you have a thread function ThreadFunc in a class CMyClass and you want to access a member of that class. Here’s what to do: Declare the thread function as

Conversion From Numeric to String

#include void main(){ char cBuf[96]; float fVar=5.678; int nVar=78; //Conversion from float to char* sprintf(cBuf,

Handling Data Inconsistency

Many times in DB programming, a situation occurs when one operation, depends on the result of the other, but there is no way to communicate that result to the first

Determining the Last Date Of a Month

It’s common when working with dates to be able to determine the last date of a particular month. I’ve seen solutions to this problem that range from using arrays or

Encrypting Stored Procedures

When creating stored procedures, there will be occasions where a certain procedure definition should not be viewed. Using the WITH ENCRYPTION clause stores the procedure definition in an unreadable form.

Encrypting Database Views

Using the WITH ENCRYPTION clause when creating views ensures that they remain secure by keeping the view definition hidden. Sample code:————— Create view Procedure ————–create view