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Static Memory or Heap?

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

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MTS Objects Containing ADO

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

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Paranoid and Proud of It: Part I

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

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New PL/SQL Features in Oracle 8i: Part I

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

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Jabber: Instant Messaging at Its Best

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

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The MB BrowseForFolder Control

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

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Always use “$-typed” string functions

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,

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LenB has changed from VB5 to VB6

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

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Conversion to proper case

When dealing with proper names, you may want to capitalize the first letter of each word, e.g. convert “john smith” into “John Smith”. Under VB3 you had to write a

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Error Handling and Corrections

The following is an example to handle errors in VB. It combines “On ErrorGoTo” and “On Error Resume Next” to handle all errors (minor orserious ones), as well as attempting

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How to See If Data is Numeric or Non-numeric

In JavaScript you can use isNaN to check if the given data is numeric ornon-numeric.Syntax : isNaN(testdata)ReturnValue :True if the testdata is non-numeric.False if the testdata is numeric.Here’s an example:

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Methods of Class Instantiation

The following methods can be used for creating new instance of your classes, depending on your specific needs. import java.lang.ClassLoader;import java.net.URLClassLoader;import java.net.URL;public class InstantiateClass { testFinally newInstance() throws Exception {

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Using Verbose to Debug

Using the -verbose option during compilation and execution is very helpful&#151both for obtaining more information about the classes being loaded by the compiler and the interpreter and to find out

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A Problem in Using Enumeration

Once you are finished iterating through the values of an Object implementing the Enumeration interface, the next time youtry to use hasMoreElements() it will return false. Many developers are not

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How to Rethrow an Exception in Your Code

Use the fillInStackTrace() method to rethrow a Throwable type of exceptional condition in your code. This is useful if you want to rethrow a exception occurred while using a method

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Creating a Numeric-Input JTextField

Validating user input that is typed into a JTextField can becumbersome, especially if the input string must be converted to anumeric value such as an int. By subclassing JTextField, however,

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Boolean Literals

The keywords false and true are Boolean literals that evaluate to 0 and 1 respectively. Note that in other programming language, VB for instance, false equals -1 and true equals

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Casting Pointers To Members

C++ allows casting a pointer to member functions of one type to another pointer to member, as long as the signatures of the two match. However, the results of such

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Hardcoded Char Arrays

Does your C++ compiler accept the following code? char s[3]=”abc”; // illegal in C++, no place for ” The standard requires that the size of a char array initialized with

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Violating an Exception Specification

The implementation ensures that functions having an exception specification should throw only exceptions that are listed in their exception specification. For example: class X{};class Y{};void f() throw X{ throw Y();

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Binding a Reference to an Rvalue

In a previous tip, http://www.devx.com/free/tips/tipview.asp?content_id=1585 , I explained the concept of lvalues and rvalues. Binding a reference to an rvalue is allowed as long as the reference is const. The

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Extracting a Program’s Name

The name of the executable is stored in the string argv[0]. To access it, declare your main() function as follows: int main(int argc, char ** argv) Even if the application

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Helper Functions

The interface of a class consists of its public members. Usually, private members represent implementation details and are not exposed to other classes and users. Private members can be member