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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
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
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
uccess in understanding and developing Web services can mean the difference between keeping and losing your IT job. The good news is that there are successful, time-tested models of development
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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
Java/.NET Interop: Bridging Muddled Waters Check your politics at the door. Java and .NET can coexist in your application environment, saving you time and money over rewriting apps to fit
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A New Era for Rich Internet Applications Recent tool releases from prominent vendors offer designers and developers a variety of new and upgraded technologies for reshaping the design, implementation, and
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Recognizing the impact virtual machines can have on the application development process, DevX has compiled a comprehensive special report that helps you understand and evaluate the available virtualization solutions and
C++0x: The Dawning of a New Standard It’s been 10 years since the first ISO C++ standard, and 2009 will bring us the second. In this special report, DevX delves
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Field Guide to the Mobile Development Platform Landscape Get complete reviews of all the leading mobile development platforms: Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows, webOS and Symbian, as well as the top
Going Mobile: Getting Your Apps On the Road With more and more of the workforce relying on their mobile devices to get their jobs done, the time has come for
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Question: Recently we received an assignment to go through Exchange Server and find any messages that a specific user had sent to others on the network and any messages sent
Question: We have Exchange 5.5 in our company. One of the employees will be out for few days. While she is gone she wants e-mails from ONLY two senders (two
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,
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,
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
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











