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Question: The request.servervariables(“HTTP_USER_AGENT”) method does not seem to return the type of client (e.g., Netscape or Nokia handset) for mobile devices. Is this the correct way to find the type
Question: Do I necessarily need a WAP gateway in order to view WML documents that reside on my Web server, or what is the WAP gateway for? Answer: You don’t
Question: My NT production system is down. Here’s a breakdown: Update terminations, with error Inf -603, commit failed on table rfblg; RDBIF_SQL error on BSEG Running onchecks report BLOB Problems;
Question: I have a user who uses Outlook 2000 with Windows 98 both at home and at the office. In both instances, Outlook 2000 is configured to leave a copy
Question: Can Exchange Server run with Windows 98 or does it require NT? I want to use Outlook as a common pool of contact information within my office. However, when
Question: We use a GG in the NT domain to assign permissions to Exchange Admin. I have added a backup person to this group, thinking that they would then have
Question: A user on my site clicks to retrieve a URL outside of my site, but the link is dead and the user receives a 404 error. Do you know
Question: One machine on our NT 4 network (using Exchange 5.5 and Outlook 2000) cannot start Outlook. The error message is always along the lines of “Network Problems are preventing
Question: How do I return only the first four lines (a quotation) of a txt-file to my asp-file? Answer: Use the FileSystem Object to open the text file and then
Question: How do I pick out the first letter in a word and convert it to an uppercase? Answer: Use this code: strWord = UCase(Left(strWord,1)) & Mid(strWord,2) This will convert
Question: The code below creates a file, Basket.doc, in the current directory. I am using a compiler with a component I would like to place in fWrite() to let me
Question: I am using VC++ 5.0, and have a base class with several virtual functions. The derived class may/may not implement the function. If it does, it first calls the
Question: I am trying to create an array of 256 hexidecimal values but am havingsome problems. How do I create a valid array using hexadecimals? Answer: Whether you use hexadecimal
Question: I am trying to write a template that somewhat resembles how an inner class works in Java: template class Callback{public: Callback(T& t) : parent(t) { } void Execute() {
Question: Can a constructor in Java be declared as protected? Answer: Yes, Java constructors can be declared as protected. You will usually declare protected constructors when you do not intend
Question: I have a text field in a table that returns the entire field when queried. As soon as I create a view in SQL Enterprise Manager though, the text
Question: Can you tell me if there’s a way that I can force the mouse to move to a certain position on the screen, e.g. 20 pixels down, 15 pixels
Question: What is the future of Informix with Oracle and others seeming to pull so far ahead? Answer: Granted, I am a dyed-in-the-wool Informix bigot, but here’s my take. Disclosure:
Question: How are public folders archived? I have not been able to find a way to set the archival schedule on a public folder. Answer: Public folders aren’t archived, per
Question: Given: pre>typedef struct{ byte a; byte b; byte c; byte d; byte e;} LETTERS; sizeof(LETTERS) returns eight bytes because of padding by the compiler for alignment.How can I determine
Question: When I creating a class, I declare several large arrays, and some integers within one ofof class function members.Within main, I call new, making the object declared on the
Question: I have an MTS object that contains an ADO connection object which I use in an ASP page. I look at the MTS console and confirm that the package
‘ List all the File extensions that are registered in the system” return a bi-dimension string array, where’ arr(0, i) is the file extension’ arr(1, i) is the coresponding ProgID’
t is a natural tendency?and normally a very healthy attitude?to look for the best in any situation, to be optimistic about opportunities and life in general. However, when it comes
L/SQL is Oracle’s procedural extension to industry-standard SQL. Prior to Oracle 8i, PL/SQL was in a sort of static condition. It has not been changed much since Oracle 7. I
nstant messaging services are really just turbocharged e-mail systems. While the protocols, clients, and servers are very different, the result is very similar to an on-the-fly exchange of short e-mail
If you want to show the “Browse for Folder” dialog in your own application, this is the tool for you. It enables you to change any dialog’s property, such as
VB official documentation seems to encourage you to use “$-less” string functions, e.g. Left, LTrim or UCase, instead of their time-honored Left$, LTrim$ and UCase$ counterparts. If you do so,
The TreeView control exposes the AfterLabelEdit event to let the programmer validate the text entered in a Node, but there is no way to trap keys as they are typed
Visual Basic stores UDTs in unpacked format, that is it alignes all UDT elements to the double word (except that Integers and Boolean are aligned to the word, and byte











