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Add A:hover to Visual InterDev 6 Style Sheets

The Visual InterDev 6 Style Sheet editor is confusing about the tags that can be edited. For example, the A:hover style is missing from the list of tags. A:hover is

Dynamic Array Allocation

Java does not offer arrays that can be extended at run time, for primitives or Objects, so it is common to use a Vector for a set of elements that

ADO connection to an mdb database fails

Question: Summary of the problem: Connecting directly to a Microsoft Access database from a Web project developed in Interdev 6.0 fails unless I modify every .Open to use a connection

Need a simple script

Question: I need the following simple script. Visitors should be able to enter their e-mail address in a form on my site and the address should be put in a

ASP & ActiveX

Question: I have an ActiveX (MyKalender.ocx) and I know the ClassID of, I included it to an ASP-File -> I can see it but how can I get information about

Ad rotator logging

Question: I have built an ASP-based banner system using the Ad Rotator component. How can I log this information into a database (prefer) and retrieve the number of impressions and

Dynamic Includes

Question: How can I do a dynamic include, such as:However, I think I know why this doesn’t work– because includes are tossed in before it goes to the parser (asp.dll).

Use a Selfmade ActiveX-DLL on an ASP

Question: I’ve made an ActiveX-DLL using VB6 with one public and several private functions.How can I use (and call) the public function from an Active Server Page?? Answer: Invoke your

File Upload using VBScript

Question: I would like to ask about uploading a file using HTML. I have the code, but the problem is that I can not receive and save the file that

Using #Include in htm pages

Question: I have a .htm file in which I have the following line of code: The htm pages are both part of my VI6 project.The file IncludeLeftPanel.htm contains only simple

Executing an ASP page from a VB App

Question: I have an ASP file residing on a Web server. Is there any way that I can execute this file from within my VB application? This should be similar

Highlight HTML Text With BACKGROUND-COLOR

On the printed page, people are accustomed to seeing portions that have been marked by a highlighter–you can achieve the same effect with HTML highlight text on your Web page

Use Command Lines for MTS Operations in NT Systems

If you’re using Microsoft Transaction Server technology, opening up MTS explorer and using refresh is an overhead on the system compared to command line options. Instead, you can use “mtxstop”,

Forms Not Showing Up in Taskbar

In VB3 you can set up an executable project to start up in the main subroutine, and it shows up in the Windows 95 taskbar: Public Sub Main() Load frmFoo

Form-Level Variables Won’t Clear

When you use multiple forms in a project, make sure you explicitly set a form to Nothing after you unload it. If you don’t, simply unloading the form won’t necessarily

Overloading the Subscript Operator the Right Way

It is customary to overload the subscript operator, [], in classes that hold a sequence of elements. Vector and String are examples of such classes. When you overload operator [],

Use Refresh, Not DoEvents

When executing code and tying up the system, developers often use a label or status bar to display messages. If you simply assign your text or message to the control

Be Careful When Mimicking Tool-Tip Help

Be careful about tips to easily duplicate tool-tip help with only tip control and mouse events. If your “tip” control doesn’t have the same parent as the control you’re moving

Put Your Check-Box Value Into Your Database

Jeremy Boschen pointed out an easy way to load a Boolean into a check-box control in the tip, “Use Boolean Variables for Check-Box Values” [101 Tech Tips for VB Developers,

Add a Drop Shadow in IE4 or IE5

The latest versions of Internet Explorer (4.0 and 5.0) make it easy to add a dramatic drop shadow effect to regular text. Rather than creating bitmaps, try adding a style

Inserting Quotations in Name to Table Column

Question: Is it possible to insert the single quote as part of a Name like O’Brian into a table using a SQL Insert Statement? Answer: Yes, use double quotes around

Deletion Problem

Question: Is there an option to set deletion without getting logged? I have to delete two years of historical data but would like to keep this year’s data on my

Compiling an MSC/C++7.0 Source Code

Question: I’m using MSC/C++ 7.0 to write a program for my Foxpro 2.5. How can I compile it to the Foxpro’s PLB format? Answer: You need the Foxpro LCK (Library