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Paranoid and Proud of It: Planning Your Backups

n my first article on this subject, I discussed the need to have a healthy dose of paranoia when planning how to protect your systems and information. I also demonstrated

New PL/SQL Features in Oracle 8i: Part II

n my last article, “New PL/SQL Features in Oracle 8i: Part I“, I described some of the new features in Oracle 8i that extend the power, performance, and flexibility of

Surviving the Web Shift

he Web has changed software development forever, and it doesn’t take a prophet to know that this trend will continue. Even now, client/server and object-oriented programmers are tripping over basic

Interspersed Code and Declarations

The two previous tips discussed new features that were added to C99, and which C++ doesn’t support. This time I would like to present one of the changes that were

Reading a String from a File

classes overload the operators >> for reading from a file and word) // as long as sizeof hasn’t been reached { vs.push_back(word); //copy word to vector }}

Factorial Function

One of the classic examples of using recursion is calculating a factorial of a number. Here’s a typical implementation of this function: int factorial (int num){ if (num==1) return 1;

Variable Length Arrays

In C89 and C++, array dimensions must be declared using integer constant expressions. This allows the compiler to compute the array’s size at compile time. In C99, this rule was

Old-style Function Declarations

In earlier stages of C, function declarations looked like this: int func() /*no parameters inside parentheses*/int a,b; /*instead, parameters were declared here*/float f; /*another parameter*/{/*

Rebooting with NT’s Schedule Services

Question: How can I schedule an automatic reboot? I have the schedule service started and set up to start automatically, and I know how to dothe “at” commands. What I

Printer Error Message

Question: How do I fix the “a file xxxx.4gl cannot be written to” error, which occurs when I try toprint a document? Answer: Sorry, but I’m not a 4gl person.

Development Tools Windows 2000 Compliant?

Question: Our shop develops apps with VB 5.0 and 6.0. Are either of these versions of VBWindows 2000 compliant/compatible? Answer: Yes, they are. I have done a considerable bit of

Use Copy Web to Deploy a Web Application

Instead of copying all the files manually you can use the Copy Web Application feature in Visual InterDev 6.0 to easily move your Web application from one server to another.

Overloading Methods

Suppose you are writing a method in a class that accepts a parameter of a given type. Such a method can also be called with an argument of a different

Change Access Passthrough Query Definition

When the SQL SERVER is used as the database, and Access is the front-end application, this tip can help to dynamically change the Access pass through query definition. This enables

Mini Database Strategy

Question: I have recently written a small dialog based MFC app to carry out a few performance calculations for our product. I have managed to get o/p to the printer

Default Value of enum Variables

Question: enum Foo { first = 10, second = 20 };Foo foo; What does the standard say about the default value of foo, is it the value of the first

Namespaces

Question: To use or , I need to use “using namespace std;”. What is the meaning of it? When I have multiple .h and .cpp files, where should I put

MB ColorPicker Control

This control reproduces and extends the color picker provided by Office 2000. It has a drop down palette that shows any color combination you want and (optionally) a custom button

COM+ centric Assert

INTRODUCTION In my latest article here at VB2TheMax, I showed my code structure for COM+ components (Example of code structure for COM+ component) in preparation for a couple of debug

Beware of the Dictionary object in ASP pages

The Scripting.Dictionary object is marked as having a “Both” threading model, which means that you can freely assign it to a Session or an Application variable. However, the actual threading

Don’t mix script languages on the same page

You should never use more than one script language on the same ASP page, for example by mixing pieces of VBScript with portions of JavaScript. The reason is that there