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Internet Information Server introduced the notion “Isolation Level”, which is also present in IIS4 under a different name. IIS5 supports three isolation levels, that you can set from the Home
Many compilers have a special switch for precompiled headers. A precompiled header is a binary file containing intermediate code that is the result of preprocessing and compiling an ordinary header
A link-time error such as the following is rather common:
Different objects of the same class can access each other’s members, even if these members are private. For example: class A{ int n;public: void f(A* p) {p->n=0;}// another object’s private
Can you tell the difference between the following function calls? f(a,b);g((a,b)); // how many arguments are being passed to g? In the first example, the function f() is called with
Due to hardware limitations and the finite nature of computer arithmetic, certain numeric values cannot be represented properly. These values include infinity, negative infinity, and so on. The limits of
This is a routine for returning the correct file extensions catering to allpossible input values. ‘ Enhanced routine to return correct extension” Input Output Description’ —– —— ———–”
To retrieve drive names from a system, use the static method listRoots in java.io.File package. It will return the all-available drive present in the system. This method will be useful
If you insert/update/delete multiple times to the database, you canimprove performance by using the addbatch and executebatch methods of statement objects. One drawback about using this method is that it
This tip shows how to simulate the look of an Oultlook address book records selection. Open a New VB Project and add a New Form with 1 Text Box and
The purpose of the JDBC API is to make it easy to use other drivers.For example, the driver can be passed into an application using a command line system property.
This function returns the next alpha range. When you pass
To compact MDB databases using ADO, just include a reference to the ‘Microsoft Jet and Replication Objects 2.6 Library’ (distributed with the MDAC 2.6 package) in your VB project. The
Subclass PlainDocument, then set the document of the JTextfield to the subclass as shown below: JTextField myJTextfield;myJTextfield.setDocument(new DigitsDocument());class DigitsDocument extends PlainDocument { public void insertString(int offs, String str, AttributeSet a)throws
Opening recordsets as ForwardOnly or ReadOnly makes them move faster between records. In addition, storing fields to variables before begining the loop speeds up field access. Example: * Create a
With Modal forms there is a need to restrict the movement of the mouse to the form until user closes the form. This can be achieved by using the ClipCursor
Most beginners accidentally declare duplicate variables of different data types or of the same data types. The following illustrates this: class Duplicate{ String data; private void fun() { String data=
Uniqueidentifier(GUID) can’t be used in aggregate operations like count(), etc. This problem may be solved by casting uniqueidentifier as varchar. Presuming that guid_column is a uniqueidentifier column: select count(cast(guid_column as
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
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
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
‘ Returns a collection with the names of all the image’ files in a directory or a directory tree’ this includes all the image types that can be loaded into
‘ The attributes of a file in a readable format.’ It works also with open files, raises an error if the file doesn’t exist.Function GetAttrDescr(filename As String) As String Dim
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
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
‘ Returns a collection with the names of all the executable’ files in a directory or a directory tree’ this includes all “exe”, “bat”, “com”, “pif” files” NOTE: Uses the
Option ExplicitPrivate Declare Function FindFirstFile Lib “kernel32” Alias “FindFirstFileA” _ (ByVal lpFileName As String, lpFindFileData As WIN32_FIND_DATA) As LongPrivate Declare Function FindNextFile Lib “kernel32” Alias “FindNextFileA” _ (ByVal hFindFile As
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
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 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











