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Outlook Today Page Is Blank

Question: A user has a shortcut icon for Outlook Today when she opens Outlook 98. But when she clicks on the icon she gets a blank screen. Everything else works?inbox,

Grid-Change Current Control from Properties Window

Question: How do I change a grid’s CurrentControl property from text1 to edit1 for a memo field from the properties window? Answer: You cannot change it from the properties window.

E-mail Form Contents

Question: I need to include the information from a form in an e-mail. I found this sample code, but when I run it, I just get a blank page for

Display an Image in a Particular Position

Question: How can I position an image on the screen the way I would like? The image is bigger than the capacity of the screen and the user can use

Counting the Number of Mailboxes in a Site

Question: How I can count the number of user mailboxes I install? Answer: To count the number of mailboxes in your site, just click on the Recipients tab and look

Delay Script Run in IE5

Question: My project is a based on thin client/server architecture. Internet Explorer 3.02 is the front end using ASP; ActiveX controls and DLLs form the business objects; and Oracle is

A Simple Beginner’s Problem from a Swedish Student

Question: Facts: Employee(name,salary,boss,department) Question: Which employees earn more than their boss ? Answer: Please make sure you don’t share the results with your boss! : ) Try the following: use

The 19th Common Programming Trap in MTS

have received a lot of feedback from my first two articles about common programming traps in MTS, which were published at VB-2-The-Max in December 1999. Perhaps there are a million

Exert Control Over Serialization

Java gives you control over the serialization process through the java.io.Externalizable interface. The java.io.Externalizable interface extends the java.io.Serializable interface by adding two methods: public void writeExternal(ObjectOutput out) public void readExternal(ObjectInput

Limit Your App To One Instance

How can we make sure that only one instance of our Java application is running on a machine? Java does not provide the means of finding out if another instance

Set Browser Window As Parent Of Modal Dialog

Sometimes, it is useful for an applet to launch a modal dialog whose parent is the browser window containing the applet. This is so when we’d like to get some

Hit Counter Servlet

Sometimes, it is extremely useful to know the number of times a Web page is hit. This is especially so if a web site depends on usage statistics in order

Declaring Global Variables in Java

If you are coming from C or C++ background, you must miss declaring Global variables in Java. You can get the same functionality in Java by declaring a class and

Using Numbers in SQL Text

Question: Here is the code I am using to do a query from an Access 97 database: Query = “SELECT * FROM DiamondList WHERE (ProductNumber = ‘” & tempProduct &

Display Currency Information Correctly

Question: I am writing an online order form in ASP. How can I restrict the value of vartax to a two decimal digit (round up to two decimal points)? Most

XML in ASP vs a Java Servlet

Question: I am building a Web application using ASP and XML. My database calls are directed to a server with a Java servlet over HTTP. It works fine except when

Direct Response to Another Frame on a Page

Question: I have a page broken into two frames. Frame A has a form. I would like the response from the form directed to Frame B. Right now, my response

Sending Plain Text Via ASP

Question: I wrote simple ASP code that reads a TXT file and sends it to the browser. I change the Response.Header to plain/text. Internet Explorer 4 displays the text file

Let Your Text Throw A Shadow

It is very easy to add a shadowy effect to drawn text in Java. All we have to do is to pick a darker color for the shadow and draw

Generate a Relative Path

Sometimes in an application you will have a “home” directory associated with the application, and then some files associated with that home directory. To have the files in an independent

Test Both Strings and DOM

Browsers Targeted: Internet Explorer 3+ It used to be a truism that manipulating strings was always much slower in DHTML than working directly with the Document Object Model (DOM), but

Win NT / Get UserGroups Permissions in VB

Question: I would like to get the permissions for the users of my app. I have setup groups for users with the appropriate permisions. Now all I want to do

Static Char THIS_FILE[]=__FILE__

Question: When I learned VC++, I found a bizarre statement inevery .cpp produced by AppWizard: “static char THIS_FILE[]=__FILE__;” Why does AppWizard redefine THIS_FILE?I find that THIS_FILE is just defined as__FILE__

Using Lockf with Seed Files

Question: It’s been years since my paws had to pound out a solution in C, so I’m a bit rusty and would like a second opinion.. or third… or fourth.

Pointers to Vectors

Question: How do you create an array of pointers to vectors?The different vectors will, eventually, have different lengths. Answer: You declare an array of pointers to vector like this: std::vector