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Question: I have been asked to write a script that will send an e-mail to a distribution list if a new item is placed in a public folder. I have
Question: I have one user who is getting an error when he has Outlook open. He’s unable to update public/free busy data. He’s the only user at that location who
Question: We currently have three Exchange 5.5 SP3 servers in California. We’re going to add one server in London and use x.400 connectors, but we’re not sure what the best
Here’s the code to simulate a simple NNTP server that provides offline news reader support to WebReader. Hope you enjoy it. import java.util.*; import java.io.*; import java.net.*; class nntpServer {
Two types of initialization blocks (anonymous blocks) can be used to initialize class or instance variables in Java. To intialize instance variables, {} block can be used; this block functions
Download this tool and convert any Java API downloaded from the java.sun.com into Windows Help format, the advantage of this is that you can use the inbuilt Search facility that
In lot of places, I have seen developers doing a ‘new’ to instantiate a user-defined data type (Objects) and then later in the source code checking whether this new Object
Ever wonder how to get the MSFlexGrid to have sorting behavior common inmany Windows applications? That is to say when you double-click on acolumns header it sorts ascending. Double-click again
Decode is a very useful and handy function for Oracle queries. Itreplaces the complex If-Then-Else logic, which is used to display different things based on different values in a column.
VB6 Deployment and Packaging Wizard’s resulting setup.exe has a commandline switch that allows for a silent install. This feature is virtuallyundocumented except in the source code for Setup1.exe. The default
Question: How can I view Informix database tables via the SQL Server 7 Enterprise Manager? Answer: I’m not a SQL Server user, so I can’t address your SQL Server specific
Question: I’m developing some applications with servlets. I’ve been declaring static variables to preserve state, but when two instances of the servlet run at the same time, the second instance
Question: Is it possible in Java to increase an application’s stack size? Answer: The stack size of an application can be set at run time depending on the virtual machine
Question: I want to connect to an Access DB on a server from a client using a VB app. I assume I would have to make a connection to the
Question: In my Web clipping app, I have a form like this: When I submit the form the query string looks like this: myserver.com/results.cgi?var1=xyz&var2&var3=abc The problem is if a form
Question: I have a client that used to be an Oracle programmer years ago who tells me I’m designing his SQL 7.0 database all wrong because I’m using joins in
Question: I have a bunch of words in a listbox that I want to spell check(with Microsoft Word 2000 maybe?). I would like the routine to delete any word in
Question: We have co-located a Windows NT Exchange 5.5 SP3 server with our ISP and we have about 14 Outlook clients running from our office. All of the Outlook clients
Question: How can I access an ASP page through VB? Answer: You can use the Internet Transfer control to connect to a web page and retrieve data from Visual Basic.
Question: Consider the code: template class TestClass {public: T testFunc(T*);};template TestClass::testFunc(T* p1){ return sadfs; //actually, here I could //write anything I want} The problem is that VC++6 compiler doesn’t track
Question: What does the ‘const’ in the following funciton prototype mean? class A{public: void fn (int a ) const;} Answer: The const after a member function’s parameter list indicates that
Question: How do I maintain sessions in Nokia WAP Server? Answer: Session variables are covered in the WAP Server documentation.
Question: In the WHERE condition, I have not been able to use the AND condition when the two conditions on either side of the AND command relate to data the
Question: I have accidentally deleted the ‘From’ column from my inbox. Could you instruct me how to get this column back? Answer: Right-click the header of any other column (like
Question: How do I host another domain into a single server if it has a different DNS server than mine? I have my DNS from a local ISP; the other
Question: I have a lone Macintosh user among an office of Windows users. This user has Outlook 8.2 running, with all mailboxes stored on the server. Understandably this is quite
This great add-in improves the standard Find and Replace dialog with all the functionality we’ve been looking for in all these years. First, when you perform a search you see
In this article I show you my ordinary code structure for COM+ components. I show this in preparation for further articles about debugging tips. When I show this example, I
The standard way to delete all the rows in a SQL Server table is a DELETE statement without a WHERE clause:DELETE FROM MyTable However, in most cases you can speed
The built-in ++ and?operators can appear on both sides of their operand: int n=0;++n; // prefix ++n++; // postfix ++ You probably know that a prefix operator first changes its











