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Retrieving Messages After Restore

Question: This weekend I did a restore of my Information store. I had to do a repairmidway through. This morning, a few people have told me they can’t opensome mail

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Embedding Applets in XML Documents

I came across this solution while trying to embed an applet in an XSL page I was using to transform my XML source document into HTML.If you want to cut

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MinimizeAllWindows – Minimize and restore all windows

Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib “user32” Alias “FindWindowA” (ByVal _ lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib “user32” Alias “SendMessageA” (ByVal _ hwnd

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Let the user copy floppy disks

The simplest way to help user copy a floppy disk is display the Copy Disk system dialog. You can do this with a one-line statement: Shell “rundll32.exe diskcopy.dll,DiskCopyRunDll 0,0”

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MaxSystemColors – The number of screen colors

Private Declare Function GetDesktopWindow Lib “user32” () As LongPrivate Declare Function GetDC Lib “user32” (ByVal hWnd As Long) As LongPrivate Declare Function ReleaseDC Lib “user32” (ByVal hWnd As Long, _

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ASP

Question: I’m working with ASP to retrieve records, but I keep getting an “Unexpected Error” near my recordset function. Why? Answer: Pinpointing exactly what’s wrong would be hard without actually

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Exchange Server Backups

Question: What is the best Backup Software available that will do a live backup of the Exchange Information Stores? Answer: I haven’t evaluated all of them, but we’ve been satisfied

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Current Time in Query

Question: Can I include something in the title line of a query to include the current date/time? Answer: You can use the GETDATE() function to return the current date and

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Help Files in Applications

Question: I created a “help” button in a form and coded this button’s click event as: { help } The code { set help to MyHelp.chm }is included in the

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ASP and WML

Question: Suppose I wanted to setup the IIS 4.0 to process the WML with ASP codes. Which MIME type should I configure: text/vnd.wap.wml or text/x-wap.wml? What is the difference between

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Wireless Transmission of Photos

Question: About how fast can the current wireless systems transmit a medium- to high-resolution digital photo? What’s currently the best way to do it? Will higher baud rates of wireless

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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