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Interfacing WAP Pages with Phones

Question: Can WAP pages be built to interface directly with a phone and its functionality? Answer: Yes, you can write WAP pages that will display and call phone numbers directly,

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What Are DCT Files?

Question: We have an application; within it is a file with the extension .DCT. What are .DCT files? Answer: DCT files are one of the files that Visual FoxPro uses

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Minimizing/Maximizing the VFP Window with Code

Question: How can I make the Visual FoxPro main window minimize and maximize through code? Answer: VFP forms and the _SCREEN object have a property called “WindowState” that can be

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Populating Databases

Question: I am trying to populate the stores (demo) database with a SQL script through dbaccess. The script keeps on returning syntax errors. The script is as follows: DECLARE status

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Security of WAP Pages

Question: Can WAP pages be secure? Answer: Absolutely. WAP pages can be used for sending and receiving confidential information, such as credit cards and/or bank account statements. WAP was designed

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Delete Duplicate Rows in a SQL Table

There are times when duplicate records somehow creep into a table despite your best efforts. This happens more in cases where data is loaded into table from other sources because

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Use of LIKE in SQL

The LIKE statement is often used in SQL queries with wildcards to find data that issimilar to a matching pattern. PL/SQL has two forms of wildcard: _ and %. The

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Transaction Independence in Oracle8i

In a nested procedure environment, I have often felt the need to isolatethe transactions of the child/called procedure from the parent/calling procedure’s transactions. Until Oracle8i, it used to be a

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Use Style Sheets to Create Floating Text

Use Cascading Style Sheets to create a floating text paragraph. First, add the attribute in the document’s section: Now, add the content you want to display in the window: Visit

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Reading From an Excel File

Question: Is there a way to store data in an Excel file from an ADO recordset by doing some sort of block read/write instead of reading/writing every data field in

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Date Subtraction

Question: I have a date field store in one of my database tables. How do I pull a record from that table within seven days of today’s date? today’s date

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Using PL/SQL in VFP or SQL Server

Question: Can I use Oracle’s PL/SQL in Visual FoxPro or SQL Server 6.0? Answer: No. PL/SQL is a language native to Oracle, not Microsoft’s products. Each Microsoft database product has

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DeleteRegistryValue – Delete a value from the Registry

Private Declare Function RegDeleteValue Lib “advapi32.dll” Alias _ “RegDeleteValueA” (ByVal hKey As Long, ByVal lpValueName As String) As LongPrivate Declare Function RegOpenKeyEx Lib “advapi32.dll” Alias “RegOpenKeyExA” _ (ByVal hKey As

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GetRegistryValue – Read the value of a Registry key

Private Declare Function RegOpenKeyEx Lib “advapi32.dll” Alias “RegOpenKeyExA” _ (ByVal hKey As Long, ByVal lpSubKey As String, ByVal ulOptions As Long, _ ByVal samDesired As Long, phkResult As Long) As

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CreateRegistryKey – Create a key in the Registry

Private Declare Function RegCreateKeyEx Lib “advapi32.dll” Alias _ “RegCreateKeyExA” (ByVal hKey As Long, ByVal lpSubKey As String, _ ByVal Reserved As Long, ByVal lpClass As Long, ByVal dwOptions As Long,

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SetRegistryValue – Write a value in the Registry

Private Declare Function RegOpenKeyEx Lib “advapi32.dll” Alias “RegOpenKeyExA” _ (ByVal hKey As Long, ByVal lpSubKey As String, ByVal ulOptions As Long, _ ByVal samDesired As Long, phkResult As Long) As

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DeleteRegistryKey – Delete a key of the Registry

Private Declare Function RegDeleteKey Lib “advapi32.dll” Alias “RegDeleteKeyA” _ (ByVal hKey As Long, ByVal lpSubKey As String) As Long’ Delete a registry key” Under Windows NT it doesn’t work if

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GetRegisteredUser – Retreive the name of the registered user

Private Declare Function GetVersion Lib “kernel32″ () As LongConst HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002′ Return the name of the registered user” Requires the GetRegistryValue functionFunction GetRegisteredUser() As String Dim regKey As String

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Determining the Top Level Frame

Question: I have developed a custom AWT component that can be placed at any level in a component hierarchy. How can it determine the top level Frame in the hierarchy?

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Enumerating Methods of a Class

Question: How can I enumerate the methods of an object? I know there must be away since JBuilder and other IDEs know how to populate a list ofmethods from a

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Select All Checkboxes

Question: I have several checkboxes and I want one checkbox tocause all of the checkboxes to be selected when it is selected. Howcan I do this? Answer: Even though the