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Signals and Public Slots Blocks

Question: Everybody knows the meaning of public, private, and protected blocks in a class interface. While browsing through a KDE program I found two other block types: signals and public

Correct Reference Library for FileSystemObject

Question: I am having problems calling the FileSytemObject from VB6. “Dim x as New FileSystemObject” does not work. I have tried the Active Server Pages Obj lib and ADO 2.0

Variable Creation and Scope

Question: In writing a basic introductory module about C++, I came upon the topic of “instant variable creation” within for loops and noticed to my dismay that the following code

DevX Special Report: The AJAX Framework Roundup

Which AJAX Library Is Right for Me? 12/05/06 Free AJAX libraries are multiplying like bunnies in the spring. Here’s some guidance to help you sift through the dozens of options

DevX Special Report: Judging Java

DevX is pleased to conclude its special enterprise report on Java. Part III of our series includes a candid two-part feature by analyst and author Andrew Binstock on the increasing

DevX Special Report: The Road to Ruby

The Road to Ruby Does the Ruby programming language offer enough power and elegance to make it a legitimate alternative to the current heavyweight languages? Many Ruby converts believe so,

Locking Rows

Question: We are developing an intranet application using visual interdev on windows 2000 and our informix database is on unix. We are using stored procedures and the ‘begin work’ and

Outlook Web Access

Question: When trying to create an e-mail from OWA the following error message appears: ‘Your message body is too large. OWA only supports message bodies up to 100K…’ This message

MS Outlook

Question: I have a form that is being sent from Outlook 98 to Outlook 2000. The form contains a small macro (VB Script). How do I prevent the EnableDisable macro

Return E-mail Address for Outlook 98

Question: I have three workstations for three different users. They have different local e-mail addresses but they share the same internet e-mail address. Sending an e-mail is no problem but

Using Parameters in XSL Select Statements

Question: Given the XML file: Sometimes we want to display name1 and sometimes name2. We figured that perhaps we could set a parameter. Then we could pass in the name

Restoring an Exchange Server

Question: The BDC was the exchange server, and now it can’t see itself as BDC or a server. It shows on the SERVER MANAGER as a workstation. We have a

Hiding the Command Window

Question: How can I hide the command window when a project is running? Answer: To hide the command window, issue the following command in your code: HIDE WINDOW COMMAND

FoxPro Syntax

Question: I was told that aMemo and alines are FoxPro commands but I can not find them in FoxPro help. Is my version of FoxPro too old? I am on

Information Store Size

Question: The company I work for has 15 employees and perhaps 25 legitimate mail boxes between users and service accounts. I have at least 5 users that have mail boxes

Adding Message to Forwarding E-mail

Question: My company wishes to do some special e-mail forwarding. Is there a way to take an incoming message, place a message at the top or in the subject line,

Escaped Characters

Question: When defining a string, is there a way to include a carriage return in the text? Answer: Yes. A carriage return is represented by the special escapedcharacter . However,

ALTER TABLE Command

Question: I’ve archived/purged a few thousand rows of unnecessary data, but the disk space reading hasn’t changed. Do I need to use the ALTER TABLE command to reclaim empty space

System.exit(0)

Question: Most GUI examples show System.exit(0) as the window closing eventhandler. However, System.exit(0) is a bad way to exit applications.The specification says that the VM will exit when all the