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Improve Performance of IIS by Changing Threading Model

Internet Information Server (IIS), by default, uses an apartment-threaded, or single-threaded, threading model. This design choice was made because many Web sites still used Access as the database backend. Access,

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A Reference to a Reference is Illegal

What is wrong with this code snippet? #include #include using std::string;using std::list;class Node {/*..*/};int main(){ list ln; //error} If you try to compile this example, your compiler will issue numerous

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Random Integers Over an Integer Interval

The java.util.Random class has a public int nextInt() method that returns a randomly selected integer, but there is no innate method in that class to create a random number over

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Reporting an Error During Object’s Construction

Constructors have no return value (not even void). Therefore, you have to use alternative techniques of reporting errors during object’s construction. There are three common techniques of reporting such errors.

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Find Text Between Two Strings

This function is useful for returning a portion of a string between two points in the string. You could, for example, extract a range name returned by Excel found between

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Repeat Performance

A simple loop through your main string lets you count the occurrences of a specified character or string. This function is useful for determining if enough commas appear in your

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Transport a List

The typical way of entering user-specified data into a list box is one entry at a time; however, you can accept multiple delimited entries at once and add them to

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Avoid ADO Errors by Including ADOVBS.INC

The IntelliSense feature of Visual InterDev is very handy, but it may induce you to add bugs to your code. For example, when you are using a recordset object’s Open

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Put Your Debugging Statements in HTML Comments

Even with better tools, sometimes you still have to use the good old Response.Write to print out debug statements to your ASP. The downside to this technique is that you

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Restore Errant Focus to RichTextBox

If a RichTextBox control has the focus in a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) child form, it doesn’t properly regain the focus after your application loses and regains focus. To fix

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Change Database Connection in SQL Server

In general, every user tends to work on a separate database on the server during the development phase of an application. It can be annoying for users to repeatedly change

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Verify a Check Box Using JavaScript

It is possible to see if a check box has been checked or not in JavaScript. This may come in handy during form validation. A check box has a checked

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Inserting Page Breaks in a Report

Question: How do I insert page breaks into a SELECT report? The report is sorted by a column that contains about five separate values, and I would like a new

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Importing Data Containing a CR/LF

Question: How can I import data into a datawindow if the data blob contains CR/LF as part of its data? I am using dw.object.data and dw.importstring for distributed data transfer.

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Adding the Identity Property to Existing Fields

Question: I have a users table with primary key USERID. The table is already created and loaded with pre-existing data. I now want the USERID field to be self-incrementing&#151that is,

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Changing an Installed Code Page

Question: How do I change the code page in SQL Server 7.0 once it has been installed? Answer: The code page is selected with sort order upon install. Though you

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Dropping Tables at Beginning of Statement

Question: I am trying to create a procedure that first drops the table “table” but only if it already exists. How do I create the statement using “if exists” or

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Comparing Text File with Existing Table

Question: How can I go about reading in a (comma-delimited) text file and comparing it to an existing table? If there is a match on the key field, the row

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Converting from FoxPro to Oracle

Question: Can you convert Visual FoxPro forms and reports to Oracle forms and reports? If you can, how is this done? Answer: I am not aware of anything that performs

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Hiding the Main FoxPro Window

Question: Is it possible to completely hide the main Visual FoxPro window when I run an executable? In my main program, I use “_VFP.Visible = .F.”, but the main window

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Using MS Word to Spell-Check in PowerBuilder

Question: I need to incorporate Microsoft Word 97 spell-check functionality into PowerBuilder. Which MS Word functions are required to do the task? Answer: To interface to the Word spelling checker

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Using Menu to Scroll a Row in a DataWindow

Question: How can I use a Menu Object that associates with MDI to scroll a row in a DataWindow on an ActiveSheet? Answer: To achieve this you should map a

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Employ Error Handling With ASP

Without error handling, any ASP (Active Server Pages) error is fatal as it will stop the execution of your page. To bullet proof your ASP, you can add error handlers.