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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
Question: Is it possible to force the file download box to appear through ASP? I want to create a file on the fly with the response.write method to fill its
Question: How can I read the content of an HTML page from another URL? I tried using the FileSystemObject by providing the virtual path, but it says http permission is
Question: How do I read the names of tables and fields in an Access database? I tried OpenSchema, but I got the error, “The operation requested by the application is
The SQL server date function provides an easy way to calculate the number of days in a month. To calculate the total number of days in each month in SQL
The application should try to bind columns to a program variable of the same data type as the column in the result set. If the application still needs to have
All statements executed in a stored procedure, including SELECT statements, generate an “x rows affected” message. These messages are typically not needed by the application when it is executing a
In ANSI SQL, you are always in a transaction, because there is no BEGIN TRANSACTION statement. The purpose of the SET IMPLICIT_TRANSACTIONS command in SQL 7.0 is to allow T-SQL


