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Rotate Ads on WAP

Question: How do you integrate an ad-serving technology (such as one by Doubleclick that enables you to rotate ads on a regular Web page) onto a cell phone or PDA?

IIF Function Under SQL Server 7.0

Question: Is the IIF function valid under SQL server 7.0? It’s in the SQL Books Online as valid, but none of my stored procedures accept it. Answer: The IIF function

Container of Pointers

Many programmers believe that by storing pointers instead of objects in a container, they improve performance. However, they forget that the pointers still refer to existing objects that must be

Understanding Stack Overflow

The stack is a region of memory on which local automatic variables are created and function arguments are passed. The implementation allocates a default stack size per process. On modern

Disabling Further Inheritance of a Class

To block a class from being derived any further, declare its constructor private. Next, add a public static member function Instance() that creates an instance of this class and returns

Nested Classes and Friendship

When you declare a nested class as a friend of its containing class, place the friend declaration after the declaration of the nested class, not before: class A // containing

SQL Selection from Visual Basic 6.0

Question: I’m trying to install a search facility on a database program I have written using VB6 and an Access database. I’ve opened by inserting a data control onto my

Function’s Return Value

Question: I’d like to know how can I make a return of a function’s local variable (for example, a reference to it) not using pointers technique? Answer: You have tow

Keyword ‘huge’

Question: I am getting a compile error ‘huge’ obsolete keyword. I am converting a process from Visual C++ 2.0 to 6.0. What keyword could I use in place of ‘huge’?

Calling a Procedure with a Variable

Question: How can I dynamically build a procedure call string and then get it to execute? Ex. Dim action as String action = “proc(param1,param2)” call action I know this does

Uses of Reserved Word Operator

Question: In MFC, what does the following declaration do? CPen::operator HPEN() const; My understanding of the operator keyword is that you cannot use it to create a new operator; however,

The MB InterProcess Control

This control lets you have two applications that communicate with each other. Just select the target application by its handle or partial/whole caption, set the string or the Long data

An error that must be trapped

When you use JIT activation in particular there is a special situation that you have to be prepared for. While discussing that issue, I will also show a trap when

Determine the RecordCount of a forward-only Recordset

When working with a forward-only, read-only Recordset – that is, the default ADO Recordset – the RecordCount property always returns -1. (This can also happen with other types of server-side

Open a password-protected MDB database with ADO

The syntax for opening a password-protected Jet database might not be obvious. In fact, assigning the password to the Password property in the ConnectionString raises the following error: Run-time Error:

Read and write File ODBC data sources

A file DSN is nothing but a text file that contains all the parameters for an ODBC connection. To prove this, just go to the default directory that holds all

All the Changes, All the Time: Part II

o briefly recap the situation I described in “All the Changes, All the Time: Part I“, my assignment was to capture all the changes being made in one database and,

Connecting SQL Server 7.0 and MS-Access

You can connect a MS-Access database to SQL Server as a linked server, and query Access tables in SQL Server’s Query Analyzer. This can help in porting data from Access

Non obvious uses for the LIKE operator

LIKE is probably the VB operator is most underutilized if compared to its potential. The most immediate use for this operator is to check that a string begins or ends

Call One Constructor from Another Constructor

Constructor is a special kind of method which gets called automatically whenever the object is created. One class can have zero, 1 or more then 1constructors. Basically, you can overload

Confirmation on Unsaved Form Data

Question: I have several forms in different pages which are linked using a tab approach. I would like to pop-up a confirmation window if someone is moving from one tab

Code Problems in Netscape

Question: Why is the following code not working? Javascripts January Februrary March 1 2 3 4 5 2000 2001 passdate1: January Februrary March 1 2 3 4 5 2000 2001

Loading Different CSS Styles

Question: How can I make different CSS styles to be loaded depending on the platform a user has (Mac or PC)? Answer: The simplest way to do this is to

Managing the Hourglass

It can be very useful to have a central public function for manipulating themouse pointer in a Visual Basic application. This function can help youorganize how the hourglass is shown

Name Property Is Case-Sensitive

Always be careful when checking adoRS.Fields(i).Name, the stringfor this property is case sensitive. If in a database there’s a field named BANK_BALANCE_AMT,RS.Fields(i).Name will not recognize “bank_balance_amt”: In such a case