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Array Enumeration

Question: Is it possible to return an Enumeration of an array? Answer: There is no standard class for creating an Enumeration of an array.More often than not, when you use

Designing Tiers and Placing Business Rules in Them

Sometimes in a multi-tier system, designers tend to follow rigid object-oriented design rules to perform heavy data-centric manipulations in the middle tier. Remember, a thin line separates the operations that

Display an animated GIF using the WebBrowser control

The standard PictureBox control doesn’t support the Animated GIF graphic format. However, you can display these images by using a WebBrowser control: WebBrowser1.Navigate “c:ImagesAnimated.Gif” The only problem of this technique

Using XSLT to Comma Delimit Node Values

Question: I have the following code in an XML file: Fredonia AFB Russia Luka Russia 140N4506 64E3507 Sevastopl Bosie 140N4506 64E3507 Ukraine How can I set up an XSL sheet

Changing Link Color with Mouseovers

Question: How can I change the color of a link when the mouse is over the link? And how can I remove the line that underlines the links? I am

Creating Frames

Question: I want to make a simple frame for my Web site, but I don’t know how. I’ve looked through your tutorial but I still don’t fully understand. Can you

The Error Handler Add-in

This addin greatly simplifies adding error handling to VB programs. Simply register the DLL using REGSVR32 and the addin will be added into the Visual Basic tools menu. Keep the

The Tao of Recursion: Named Templates in XSLT

ascally RecursionExtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations, or XSLT, allows you to transform XML documents into other XML documents using XSL. Using XSLT can be very trying, but it is, in fact,

Bringing the Web to Your In-Box

ave you visited sites that allow you to “E-mail this page to your friend”? Have you tried it and sent the page to yourself to see what it looks like?

Use Property Functions to Query Metadata

nce you get past the point of creating a solid database design and ensuring the integrity of your database, inevitably you need to know about the objects in your database.

Prevent dragging elements in a ListView control

The ListView control doesn’t expose any property that lets you disable the dragging of its elements. To do so, you must trap the WM_NOTIFY message that the ListView control sends

Bind a group of OptionButtons to a Data control

You can’t directly bind a group of OptionButton controls to a Data control, RDO Data control or ADO Data control. However, you can work around this limitation by adding an

Highlight current word and line in a TextBox control

Here’s a simple way to highlight the current word in a TextBox control (i.e. the word where the caret is): Text1.SetFocusSendKeys “^{LEFT}+^{RIGHT}” Similarly, you can highlight the current line in

Get the handle of the edit portion of a ComboBox

The ComboBox control contains an invisible Edit window, which is used for the edit area. In most cases you don’t need to access this inner control directly, but occasionally a

Create arrowed buttons without icons

You don’t need to use icons or bitmap to create buttons with arrows on them. In fact, you just have to select the “Windings” font, set a suitable font size

Converting Time Zones and Dates

The java.util.TimeZone class can be used to convertdates and times from local values (default) to othertime zones. The following example shows how: import java.util.*;public class TimeZoneTest {public static void main(java.lang.String[]

Calculate Exponentiation Using Math.pow() Method

You can use pow() method which is part of the Math classin java.lang for calculating the exponentiation. Java doesnot provide any direct operator (like ‘^’ in VB) for calculating the

Avoid Increment/Decrement Operators in Expressions

You should avoid usage of increment and decrement operators inside other expressions. Increment operator (++) adds 1 to the current valueof the variable and decrement operator (–) subtracts 1 from

Abstract Base Class(ABC) Creation

Question: How do I convert a class into an abstract base class without using a pure virtual member function in it? Answer: If your goal is to disable instantiation of

Using HitCounters in Your Page

Question: Where can I download the HitCount Component for ASP? Do I need to register it on the Web server also? Answer: FrontPage 98 ships with a hit counter component.

Calculating the Average of a Column

Question: I’m doing a Web front for a database that contains data about temperature. How do I calculate an average temperature using SQL code? Answer: Use the AVG function to

Forward Declaration for STL String Class

Question: How do I do a forward declaration for the STL ‘string’ class? For example: // Foo.hppclass string;class Foo{ string f1(); void f2(const string& str); …} On various compliers (MS,

Submitting a Form with the Enter Key

Using the IE browser application, you can press the key while filling a form to submit the form. Indeed, this is a desirable feature for any Windows application. In order

What Are Design Patterns?

A design pattern is a design solution to a software problem that occurs within a specific, recurring set of situations. Let’s say you are making software for a problem situation