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Don’t Get Cached

Adding this META tag: to the document prevents the Web page from being cached by the browser. This tag ensures that a new copy of the document will always be

Using Recordset::GetString()

You can use GetString() method of ADODB.Recordset object if you want to dumpthe complete table in an active server page. GetString() method returns thecomplete recordset as a string. You can

Hosting Multiple Domains

Question: How do I host multiple domains with Exchange Server 5.5? I have six domains that I would like to host on this server, but I only know how to

Editing Received Outlook E-mail

Question: In Outlook 97 it was possible to edit the body of a received e-mail message. This is valuable because I ask people for information about themselves, which they e-mail

Offline E-mail But Online Calendar

Question: Do you know of any way to use offline folders by default but to have your calendar work online? (I am using Outlook 2000.) I want to work offline

Check whether a sound card exists

If you are developing a game in VB or an application that plays sounds, you probably want to check that a sound card actually exists. There is an API function

Show the contents of the Recycle Bin folder

You can use the ShellExecute API function to programmatically open a window of Explorer and display the contents of the Recycle Bin. This is the function’s declare: Private Declare Function

EmptyRecycleBin – Delete all files in the Recycle Bin

Private Declare Function SHEmptyRecycleBin Lib “shell32.dll” Alias _ “SHEmptyRecycleBinA” (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal pszRootPath As String, _ ByVal dwFlags As Long) As LongConst SHERB_NOCONFIRMATION = &H1Const SHERB_NOPROGRESSUI = &H2Const

Managing Inactivity Timeouts

ne way to implement an inactivity timeout in an application is to keep track of the last time a MouseEvent or KeyEvent was sent to an application. In a separate

Display Selective Data From a Database

n last month’s 10-Minute Solution, you learned how to display data from a database. This time, you’ll see how to use this technique to pick and choose what to display

Convert a Text File to XML

ere’s an interesting conundrum. You have an application that doesn’t have an object model (or has one that’s so hideously complex that you’d just as soon not pay a programmer

Outlook View Control

he Outlook View control released by Microsoft allows you to display an Outlook folder in your application. The folder displayed in the control is fully functional; you can create, open,

Lazy Versus Eager Instantiation

There are techniques for creation of objects (read allocation of memory)widely known as lazy Instantiation and Eager Instantiation.Lazy instantiation is a memory conservation technique, by which, a programdelays the creation

Get all your Threads and Thread Groups

It might be useful to garner an enumeration of all thread groups and theirthreads in your running application. The following method shows you how todo that: public void printOutThreadGroups(){ //create

MTSTransactionMode in Visual Basic 6.0

Each MTS component can contain one or more classes which, in MTS terms, are referred to as MTS Objects. Visual Basic 6.0 provides a new property called MTSTransactionMode that can

Locate the Temp Folder

In your apps, do the right thing: Use the computer’s Temp folder to hold your temporary files. To find that location, paste this code into the Declarations section of a

Ask the Form Itself Whether it’s Loaded

Occasionally you initialize a form but don’t load it. You might do this to read in initial application Registry values. After that, any references to control properties on the form

Catalog Your Graphics

I needed a printed catalog of GIF images in a directory. So I wrote a routine that creates a new document, and inserts an image for each GIF file in

Perform Faster String Manipulations

Are you dealing with strings you have to parse if you want to drop one special character or change it into another? Keep this trick in mind. Even though this

Make Sure Msgbox is on Top

When you implement the Always on Top feature with VB forms using SetWindowPos and HWND_TOPMOST, message boxes are shown below the topmost form. To overcome this, you can use the

Prompt for Password in a Separate Dialog

Question: I want to display the “Enter Network Password” box when a user accesses my site. I can display an ActiveX control on my HTML page (ObjectID Tag) but it

Strip Leading Zeros in ASP Output

Question: How do I strip off leading zeros from data displayed from an ASP page? Answer: Use the FormatNumber function.If value = “0000046” Then FormatNumber(value,0) will result in 46. FormatNumber(value,2)

Retrieve Table Names From an Access Database

Question: How do I retrieve all the table names from an Access database using ASP? Answer: Make sure you have an ODBC DSN to point to your database. Then use