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Using the IRDA Port in Raw Mode

Question: I am using Windows 2000 and would like to access the IRDA port in raw mode. That is, not use the Winsock API but instead just send serial data.

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Using the Gateway Server

Question: We have a Web-enabled application running. The ASP has been written to generate a WML/HTML response. This has been tested using a simulator from Phone.com. What should I do

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Different Displays on My WinWAP Browser

Question: I am developing for an AT&T phone made by Mitsubishi. It correctly formats and displays WML cards until I try to use input boxes or any other type of

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The URLLabel Control

This control is a label/picture with hyperlink functionality. All you’ve to do is to place URLLabel on a form, choose the style (Underline, NoUnderline, GotFocus, Graphic), the color or picture

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A guerrilla course on COM(+) security

Introduction Most developers hate to deal with securityissues; that’s why the security-design subject is, most of the time, left out from the “typical developer” MSDN surfing and the application prototypes

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DragControl – Drag any control using the mouse

Private Type POINTAPI X As Long Y As LongEnd TypePrivate Type RECT Left As Long Top As Long Right As Long Bottom As LongEnd TypePrivate Declare Function ClipCursor Lib “user32”

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Repositioning a File Pointer

The fseek() function provides random file access. It’s declared in as follows: int fseek(FILE *fstream, int offset, int whence); The function sets the file pointer associated with fstream to a

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Invoking Overloaded Operators Explicitly

The overloaded operator mechanism is “syntactic sugar” for ordinary function calls. You can always use the explicit name of an overloaded operator function to resolve ambiguities or document your intention.

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Getting the Current File Position

The standard function ftell() reports the current file pointer position. The file pointer is a numeric value that represents the current position in the file in the form of offset

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Rewinding a File

Instead of using the following form to rewind a file: fseek (fstream, 0, SEEK_SET); You can use the standard function rewind() as a shorthand. rewind() is declared in as follows:

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Rewind a File

Instead of using the following form to rewind a file: fseek (fstream, 0, SEEK_SET); You can use the standard function rewind() as a shorthand. rewind() is declared in as follows:

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Wireless Special Report: Marching Toward Mobility

Building Weapons of Mass Communication As wireless devices invade the enterprise they present opportunities to empower workers and improve productivity via mobile applications. But they also threaten enterprise security and

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Vectors Containing Arrays

Question: I’ve got a struct which is declared as having two fields: int position;char tile-id[6]; When I use this in a vector, I can use the [] notation to initialise

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Informix Configuration on NT

Question: How do I program Informix to insert newline characters into CHAR(500) fields? Answer: A char field is defined as ending with a newline, so I don’t think you can

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Hyphen Or No Hyphen When Accessing DBACCESS

Question: When accessing DBACCESS from a script, what are the consequences of leaving out the hyphen? What should we adopt as a standard, hyphen or no hyphen? Example: dbaccess mystores

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Exchange and .PST Files

Question: How do I import my user’s .PST files directly into Exchange without having to log in as the user and import the files via Outlook? Answer: You might be

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Build an XML Document for a Recordset on the Fly

(Note: This tip assumes that you have an ActiveConnectionsetup to your DSN.) This function creates an XML document from an ADO Recordset, programmatically. Public Function CreateXML(strRoot As String,strSQLStatement As String,

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Default Script Error Handling on Your Web Pages

The unhandled or unexpected script error is a real issue these days. Script errors can be seen even on many of the professionally designed Web sites and Web-based customer applications.

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How to Convert ADO RecordSet into the HTML Table

The following code converts an ADO recordset into an HTML table by using the GetString function of the recordset. This method does not involve the looping or MoveNext method; it

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Export HTML Table to Excel

Here is a simple way to export an HTML table to Excel with a single line of code. For the technique to work, you must have Excel installed on the

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Don’t Buffer Your ASPs

Using the Buffer propertyof the Response object to buffer Active Server Pages (ASPs) generally isn’t a very good idea.When you buffer an ASP, none of thepage is outputted until the