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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

Tricks with Server.MapPath

The Server.MapPath method can be used to retrieve several interesting properties about the running ASP application, for example: ‘ the current directorycurrDir = Server.MapPath(“.”)’ the parent directoryparentDir = Server.MapPath(“..”)’ the

Response.Buffer and Response.Flush

In order to redirect a web page after you have written to it, you must use a Response.Buffer = true at the top of the page.You may redirect the page

Unload Forms

This will unload all forms in memory before the calling form is unloaded. Not only does this unload each form, it also fires each form’s unload event, allowing for a

Registering Custom Interfaces

When the object exposes the custom interfaces via standard marshalling, the proxystub DLL is required for marshalling data across the threadprocessescomputer boundaries.The interfaces are specified in an IDL file that

Convert an Input String Into a Proper String

If you want to convert the input string into a proper string usingjavascript, this is a simple function that will perform the task: String.prototype.ProperCase = function() { return this.substr(0,1) .toUpperCase()

Basic Event Logging

Any production application should include event logging for troubleshooting and auditing purposes. This code can be placed in any module and called whenever you have an error or event that

GetPrimaryDCName

Question: I’m trying to get the PDC name for a domain on my network using the following code. It works fine within the VB IDE, but the moment I compile

NetUserGetInfo – API Call

Question: I am using “NetUserGetInfo” API call to get the NT user profile. I use: typedef struct _USER_INFO_3 How can I parse the “usri3_flags” member in detail? Answer: Use this:

Maximum Number of Columns Allowed

Question: What is the maximum number of columns allowed in an Informix table? Answer: For Informix 7.3X, the maximum number of columns in a table is 2,767.