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Writing well-formed HTML is really quite simple. It has the benefits of markup being unambiguous as well as a way to increase the robustness of the Web, while simplifying and
One of the easiest methods to navigate back to the page where they came from is with JavaScript object.property called document.referrer. This document.referrer means the page that referred the current
You should compile your SQL queries with the ADO Command object to avoid problems that can arise from concatenating strings and variables to form SQL queries. Using Command object’s Parameter
If you have a data driven Web site, you might provide functionality so that a user can delete records from the database via a Web page. If there are lots
There are many simple images (stripes, hue gradients, fractals, and the like) that can easily be constructed in memory via code. To do so, you need a one-dimensional array to
Virtual keyword can be used in ASP to include a directive to indicate that a path begins with a virtual directory. For example, if a file named MyConstants.inc is in
The clone() method of java.lang.Object class makes a shallow copy of anobject i.e. a copy that excludes the objects that the to-be-cloned object contains. Therefore, to produce a deep copy
The Microsoft Java SDK (http://www.microsoft.com/java) has a tool called jexegen which converts a Java class file into a fully executable Microsoft Win32 application.
In Java The expression x/y (x and y are both integers) will represent an integer operation that would result in an integer. So, the result of 4/5 would be 0.
The class java.net.InetAddress represents an Internet Protocol (IP) address. It has a static method, getLocalHost(), that you can use to obtain an instance of java.net.InetAddress based on your local machine’s
nce you go beyond the basics in ASP?scripting some fancy output?the next thing you usually want to do is access a database and display data from it. This ASP primer
y now, I’m sure that you have some Web development experience, either with VB DHTML applications, or HTML pages using VBScript. If not, then you will soon, so pay attention.
his article takes a first look at the FormManager, one of the important new featuresin Visual InterDev 6. When dropped onto an Active Server Pages (ASP) page, the FormManagerdesign-time control
Question: Our Web server (NT 4.0) became inoperable over the weekend due to a SQL Server error that stated that the “applications log file is full”. From what I understand,
Question: Why don’t destructors work on global classes? Answer: Actually, destructors do work in global objects. The problem is, they are invoked after the program has ended so you don’t
Question: How do I get the TextBox to display automatically at the end of text, instead of at the begining of the text? Answer: The answer is very simple. All
Question: I need to write a script that tells me the last user_id entered on a table and then another script in order to allow me (or a user) to
Question: In Microsoft Query I can’t seem to use the Execute SQL function. I’m learning SQL from a book called The ColdFusion 4.0 Web Application Construction Kit (Macmillan, 1998). The
To programmatically display the “Shut down Windows” standard dialog box you can use the SHShutDownDialog undocumented API function, whose declaration is: Declare Function SHShutDownDialog Lib “shell32” Alias “#60” (ByVal lType
The Desktop is a window like any other window in the system, so you can hide/show and enable/disable it. The only details you need to know is how to retrieve
SHFormatDrive is an undocumented but simple API function that allows you to format a drive. This function simply opens “Format Drive” diaolog window. Being undocument you won’t find its Declare
Who said you can’t use an animated cursor with Visual Basic? Actually, it’s so simple! You just have to load your animated cursor through LoadCursorFromFile API function, then you get
The Windows’ application bar (or Startbar) is a window like any other window in the system, so you can hide/show and enable/disable it. The only thing you need to know
All recent Windows applications use a flat toolbar similar to Internet Explorer ‘s and Microsoft Word’s ones. Visual Basic 6 includes a Toolbar control that supports the flat look, but
The class java.net.InetAddress represents an Internet Protocol (IP) address. You can use this class to find the IP address of a host using the hostname. The following code demonstrates this:
The class java.net.InetAddress represents an Internet Protocol (IP) address. You can use this class to find the hostname of an IP address. The following code demonstrates this: try{ java.net.InetAddress inetAdd
Question: I’m passing a string from one ASP template to another. The string may contain spaces so I call URLEncode, which works well as far as preventing the 400 Error
Question: How do you access data on a mainframe using ASP? Answer: It depends on your mainframe application. If there is a way to connect to the data via ODBC
Question: I need a VBScript function that will format a date as mm/dd/yyyy. The FormatDateTime function does not give me this option and the CDate function wants to convert everything
Question: For my company’s intranet, I used sessions to keep track of the user. When a user clicks on the logout button, the session is abandoned. However, even though the




