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Informix Stored Procedures to VB

Question: I am returning a resultset from an Informix Stored Procedure to VB6 via ODBC and ADO. Is there any way of returning the field names? At this point I

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Getting the Address of a Function

Question: In VB, I can use the function AddressOf. It is the return address of function WNDPROC. Is there a similar function in PowerBuilder? Answer: In PowerBuilder you cannot get

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Moving Mailboxes Correctly

Question: We have set up a second Exchange server within our site and moved 170 mailboxes over to it. However, it does not appear that the mailbox data has transferred.

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Disabling Function Keys in an Application

Question: How do I disable function keys in an application? Answer: You can disable function keys by using the ON KEY LABEL command. Putting an asterisk (*) after the key

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Porting from Oracle to Informix

Question: We have an existing application, which has been developed using ASP. The database being used is Oracle 8. Now, for a different customer, we want to port this application

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Patch for Divide-By-Zero Error

Question: We are getting a divide-by-zero error running FoxPro for Windows 2.5 on a Novell server on the network on an NT workstation. Can I use the patch in version

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Building a Text Editor, Part I

n answering questions for Ask the VB Pro, I’ve been noticing a lot of the same types of questions. These questions primarily relate to basic operations like opening and writing

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Credit Card Processing

f you haven’t done electronic credit card processing yet, you may be asked to do it soon. Don’t sweat, it’s not as difficult as it sounds?actually it’s quite simple. In

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Sorting and Searching

he Java 2 Collections Framework includes a set of static methods forsorting and searching lists and arrays. The java.util.Collectionsclass contains methods for manipulating instances of List and thejava.util.Arrays class contains

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Three Commandments for ASP Programming

f you are like me, you have already broken some of your New Year’s resolutions. As ASP programmers, however, it is time we made some resolutions to code better, more

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Upgrading from Standard to Enterprise Edition 5.5

Question: I have read that to upgrade from Exchange 5.5 Standard to Enterprise Edition, I need to install Enterprise on top of my existing installation. Is that correct?What are the

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Temporay Class Objects

Question: Would you please tell me the difference between regular class objects and temporary class objects? Answer: The compiler creates temporary objects in several occasions. Usually, the temporary stores the

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Goto Statements

Question: Does C++ have a goto statement? If yes, how does it work (what is the syntax)? If no, is there an equivilant and what is the syntax? Answer: Yes,

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Single-Instance Message Store

Question: I am working on a project to increase mail efficiency for our Exchange Server-based mail system. I would like to find out whether a specific feature is being utilized

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Displaying PDF Documents

Need the ability to view a PDF document within a Javaapplet? Daniel F. Savarese, answered this question in the March 2000 issue of Java Pro. His solution involves using Adobe’s

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Getting Around Global Variables

In many programming languages such as C or Pascal,most users have come across global variables.Like this C example: int GlobVar = 0; // Global variable void f(int x) // Function

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Be Careful When You Cast

Java allows you to cast variables, or change them from one variable type to another. However, it’s important to make sure that the final variable type can store all the

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Resolution of Overloaded Functions

Let’s say we have an overloaded function called fun(): void fun(string) { system.out.println(“String”); }void fun(int) { system.out.println(“Int”); }void fun(double) { system.out.println(“Double”); }void fun(float) { system.out.println(“float”); } If we call fun(37)