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Creating an Application Setup Wizard

Question: How do I create an Application Setup Wizard from Visual FoxPro? Answer: VFP ships with a Setup Wizard, which builds three different types of installations: Standalone, Network, and Web.

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Send in a Different Account in Outlook

Question: I’ve installed Exchange Server, and I’ve installed Outlook 2000 in the client, which is receiving email from POP3 accounts and three accounts from Exchange Server. How can I choose

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Remote Access Via the Internet

Question: We are a small company of some 70 staff, 50 of which are located away from the office (clients site, home, etc.). I am about to migrate from Microsoft

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Scheduling a Conference Room with Exchange

Question: How do you set up Outlook 2000 and Exchange 5.5 to use resource scheduling accounts, such as conference rooms? There are several posts about how to do this without

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Exchange Mail Storage

Question: I have an attorney client who wants to have all his e-mail stored on his local workstation, not on the Microsoft Exchange 5.5 SP2 Server. In fact, he would

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Broadcast Messages to Online Users Only

Question: Is there any way in Outlook/Exchange to send out a message to all users currently logged on (like a network broadcast)? We currently send system announcements (such as for

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Redirecting to Another URL with setTimeout

Most of Web developers may be familiar with the META REFRESH tag in HTML. This tag is used to take the user to another location automatically, after a specified delay.

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Improving Usability with the LABEL Tag

When it comes to usability, the devil is in the details. Annoying little quirks can make your users hate to use your perfectly good web app. One easy (but often

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Run-time Library

Question: What is a run-time library? How are they different from other libraries? Answer: A library is essentially a file that contains compiled object modules (a module is an object

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Dynamic Templated Objects

Question: How does the compiler handle dynamically allocated templated objects? As I have read, the compiler generates code for templated objects and functions according to the required data type. Answer:

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Focus Your Users Using ASP And JavaScript

Many sites don’t do a very good job focusing their users attention on the form controls that they have to fill out. It’s easy to jump from one form control

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Dynamically Changing Content without DHTML

The DHTML capabilities (such as changing the text color/fonts/size dynamically) are very nice features to have, but unfortunately, they are not available on all browser applications. Essentially, DHTML features work

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Submitting Forms with Unselected Checkboxes

Checkbox control is one of the widely used controls in Web pages. However, it is important to understand that a name/value pair for the checkbox is only submitted with the

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Using setAttribute Method of DOM Object in VB

Question: I am unable to use “setAttribute” method in Visual Basic. Following is the piece of code. Dim objXML As DOMDocumentDim objOrders As IXMLDOMNodeDim objOrder As IXMLDOMNodeSet objXML = CreateObject(“Microsoft.XMLDOM”)Set

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Add vs String Concatenate

Question: I want to force the addition of two numbers in JavaScript, but they always just concatenate. There has to be a simple way to do this that I’m missing.

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Filtering On Node Name

Question: I have an XML document for news items. It has a tag which has 3 child nodes , and , of which there can be multiples with the one

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Determining a Client’s Time Zone

Question: I want to know from which time zone a client is accessing my site to control display of commercial ads. How can I find this out? Answer: In general,

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Run EXE as Logged-On User

Question: Let’s assume I am logged onto an NT Workstation as a normal user. Using one of your10-Minute Solutions I managed to get the LogonUser API to log me in

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Carriage Returns in Text Files

Question: I have written a function which strips out all carriage returns from a memo field passed toit, replacing them with the characters ““. The returned piece of text is

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Pausing Code to Call Another Form

Question: I have a form with a block of code that hides the form and then calls another form. This other form accepts input, saves it to a table and

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Data Field Refresh on Forms

Question: I have a multi-page form with navigation controls on the first page. When I “Next”through the records, the data fields refresh fine on Page One but not on the

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Command-Line Argument in FoxPro 2.0

Question: Is there any way for FoxPro to accept a command-line argument: c:foxpro2.0fox myprogram “Justin” Where “Justin” is a string sent to the FoxPro program ‘myprogram’ as a parameter? Answer:

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Accessing the Container of an Object

Question: How do I find the parents of a control? Answer: All VFP objects have a property called “parent,” which is an object reference to thecontainer of the object. For

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OWA 2000 Journal and Public Contacts

Question: Will OWA 2000 provide access to public contacts and access to the users journal? Answer: The answers to your questions, you’ll be pleased to hear, are yes and yes.

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Directories That Won’t Open

Question: How come I can’t open some directories on my C: drive? I get the error”c:directoryname is not accessible. Access is denied.” Answer: I have had the same problem on

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Windows NT Profiles

Question: Why are Windows NT user profiles created with extensions of .000, .001, and so on? Answer: The following is from the MSDN article Q185588, “Guide To Windows NT 4.0

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Windows 2000 Defragment

Question: How can users be given the ability to run defragment without any other rights being givento their computers? Answer: There is a utility in the W2K Resource Kit called