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Question: Can the ORACLE database talk with XML like SQL Server can? Answer: An XML parser is available in Oracle8i. Oracle is developing a product called Messenger that will allow
Question: Can I send an e-mail via WAP, handheld PC or other units when I’m on the go? Answer: There are lots of possibilities. You can set up a WML/ASP
Question: What is the range of data transfer bandwidth? Answer: In GSM, the usual data transfer rate is 9.6Kbps. Under High Speed Circuit Switched Data (HSCSD), you can get around
Question: Will doing an HTTP redirect via Response.redirect cause a problem for WAP? Answer: It all depends on what SDK you use, as well as exactly how you write your
Question: How do I capture the voice streaming from a mobile phone? I am working on mobile phones that run on a PC card (PCMCIA). Answer: Several software companies currently
Question: We have implemented a technology resource policy that includes the following: “5.5 Automatic Deletion of Stored E-mail. All e-mail stored on (Company Name) servers will be automatically deleted after
Question: I have a domain with a PDC server and a BDC server. I want to replace the PDC, where I have Exchange 5.5SP2, with a bigger server and basically
Question: I have a column in a grid that is of the data type date. In the InteractiveChange event, I have a code that takes the value entered in the
Question: How do I make a control keep the focus until a value within a specified range is entered? The control in question is a text box. Answer: The simplest
Question: Does Microsoft have a marketing plan to retire Visual FoxPro after the release of version 7.0? Answer: If Microsoft has a plan to retire VFP, they do not appear
The standard functions abs() and labs() (declared in ) return the absolute value of int and long, respectively. You can use these functions in computations that need absolute values. For
A small number of functions from the Standard Library have different signatures on C and C++. These functions are: strchr(), strpbrk(), strrchr(), strstr(), and memchr() as well as their wide-character
The following loop is very inefficient: for (int j=0; j
Most compilers nowadays have several options that reduce compilation time considerably. These options include incremental build, precompiled header files, and cached header files. By default, these options are turned off.
Question: I have written a simple application with one form. I compiled the project as an .exe. My exe works fine if I am inside VFP, but when I make
Question: How do I call a form from another form using a command button? Answer: You can put code into the Click event of the command button that executes a
Question: In a FoxPro 6.0 application, I want to be able to push a button anddisplay a report on the screen. This report should be displayed in a new window,
The max() macro or template takes two values and returns the highest. What if you need to calculate the maximum of three values? You don’t need to write a special
Question: I want to create a system error object that will take care of system errors and database errors. Should I inherit it from the error object, or should I
Question: The following code produces an error when compiled on Microsoft Visual C++ 6 SP3: for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) cout
Question: I need to post an XML document from one server to another server. Can I use XMLHTTPRequest for this? Answer: Yes, the XMLHTTP Request object can be used to
Question: How can I write a function in C++ that would create a folder/subfolder on the hard-disk? Answer: Standard C or C++ don’t define such a function. However, most platforms
Question: I am trying to develop an MSSQL ASP application that ties real-time into customer’s existing databases at remote locations. The customers use everything from IBM mainframes to SQL or
Question: What is the most efficient method of converting Informix data in a Unix operating system to text or dbf data in an NT operating system (size = 8GB)? Answer:
Question: I have three quick questions: Is the Informix standard ANSI? Does it accept the function CAST()? What is the largest size char that I can declare? Answer: Informix conforms
Question: Is there a macro that returns the name of a function which calls the macro? If not, how can I define such a macro? Answer: Yes and no. The
This handy class module by Kieron O’Connor lets you add a control-less timer to your application, without actually using a Timer control. Beside being useful in itself, the CLiteTimer class
indows Distributed interNet Application (DNA) is an architecture for building n-tiered applications for the Microsoft Windows platform. DNA is based on the Microsoft Component Object Model (COM), which provides for
‘ number of permutations of N objects in groups of M” Note: requires the FACTORIAL routineFunction Permutations(ByVal Objects As Long, ByVal GroupSize As Long) As Double Permutations = Factorial(Objects) /
‘ The factorial of a number” if NUMBER is negative or >170 it raises an’ “subscript out of range” errorFunction Factorial(ByVal number As Long) As Double Static result(170) As Double











